I've got an idea.
Why don't we simply attend to our own being?
We may feel like doormats and that we let 'them' walk all over us. We may feel that neighbours don't behave in a way that we think they 'should' behave. We might condemn the government for not doing the job we think we elected them to do.
When we sit down and contemplate our own being, we can see this fight going on inside us, destroying us.
Or when we sit down, we might see that the world simply IS, and all that we are aware of is the modifications of our own substance, that absolutely, there is no us and them. There is only what is in our consciousness.
Light comes through the eyes, sound through the ears, etc., and each sense reception modifies our substance. Sounds coming through the ears are probably the greatest modifiers. We learn language, which enables us to receive concepts like injustice, intolerance, global warming, rain forest desecration, species going extinct, seas overloaded with plastic. True education is great, it helps to draw out of the child who in essence he is. But one thinker has suggested that anyone who's been through a state education will find it very difficult to attain this kind of perfect freedom.
We can start a crusade to put right what we believe is wrong. But isn't working on ourselves the first step? If I first see clearly what needs to be changed in my own substance, don't I become an example of how best to live? It has been said that first you find the kingdom of heaven, then all else will be added. And the kingdom of heaven is within.
2000 years ago, the same wise chap said that unless you become as little children, you won't find the heaven within. The 'little child' doesn't mean the appetival horror that wants what it wants when it wants it. It's the child that sees the world as an interesting and wonderful place, to be explored and played with.
Why don't we simply attend to our own being?
We may feel like doormats and that we let 'them' walk all over us. We may feel that neighbours don't behave in a way that we think they 'should' behave. We might condemn the government for not doing the job we think we elected them to do.
When we sit down and contemplate our own being, we can see this fight going on inside us, destroying us.
Or when we sit down, we might see that the world simply IS, and all that we are aware of is the modifications of our own substance, that absolutely, there is no us and them. There is only what is in our consciousness.
Light comes through the eyes, sound through the ears, etc., and each sense reception modifies our substance. Sounds coming through the ears are probably the greatest modifiers. We learn language, which enables us to receive concepts like injustice, intolerance, global warming, rain forest desecration, species going extinct, seas overloaded with plastic. True education is great, it helps to draw out of the child who in essence he is. But one thinker has suggested that anyone who's been through a state education will find it very difficult to attain this kind of perfect freedom.
We can start a crusade to put right what we believe is wrong. But isn't working on ourselves the first step? If I first see clearly what needs to be changed in my own substance, don't I become an example of how best to live? It has been said that first you find the kingdom of heaven, then all else will be added. And the kingdom of heaven is within.
2000 years ago, the same wise chap said that unless you become as little children, you won't find the heaven within. The 'little child' doesn't mean the appetival horror that wants what it wants when it wants it. It's the child that sees the world as an interesting and wonderful place, to be explored and played with.
The two commandments that he
gave: love each other, and love the Absolute Sentient Power in which we have
our being.
Big businesses, people who take up politics, and even you and I are power seekers. We can become power seekers to such an extent that we too can become appetival horrors.
We still have the purity of that innocent child within when we search for it. Innocence is in-no-sense. The chid hasn't yet had its substance sullied to any great extent by the incoming stimuli.
The greatest power that we can achieve is the power over our internal substance. This achieved, we can once again be in the world but not of the world.
Big businesses, people who take up politics, and even you and I are power seekers. We can become power seekers to such an extent that we too can become appetival horrors.
We still have the purity of that innocent child within when we search for it. Innocence is in-no-sense. The chid hasn't yet had its substance sullied to any great extent by the incoming stimuli.
The greatest power that we can achieve is the power over our internal substance. This achieved, we can once again be in the world but not of the world.
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