Since it is a carry on as part two of the blog faith I am going to try to stick with the subject. Since people look at this with broad range of point of views especially influenced by the religious belief systems. Personally I look at it beyond the boundaries of religion. Sure we are taught about faith by our religions but it does not end there exclusively. When I look at faith in self, faith in nature or God, faith goes in a territory where things can potentially become tricky because it is hard for us to separate ourselves from religious knowledge. That is why whenever one talks about faith we automatically start to think about religion and God. To me I feel the need to critically look at personal and individual faith broadly because it can be used as a tool to help in experiencing a mortal life. I believe if a strategy or a system can help to create an environment of comfort in a mortal skin it should be counted as a plus just like being a CEO can help the individual to create balance in opposing senses like sense of belonging and sense of freedom.
Let’s look at it this way, say you are in a room where the temperature is not too hot, not too cold but just right for you individually. That comfort is a good measuring yard stick to understand spirituality part of any religious belief system. If you are burning hot within your skin your actions would be effected by that discomfort, same goes for the other extreme as well because freezing can be just as bad and uncomfortable as unbearable heat. When a religious tradition, custom, ritual or rule takes you out of your personal comfort zone it is you who should make the decisions to adjust the temperature instead of adjusting yourself to it. Personally you can’t and should not change your tolerance levels to fit for the heat or freezing so either you have to come up with some kind of amendments or literally break those rules to be comfortable. As human beings we individually need to be in the happy medium room temperature where we can be comfortable enough to carry one living our daily lives.
For example if you are following a religious rule to stay married for life but you are suffering and making each others life miserable indefinitely regardless of the knowledge of your mortality. Remember a religious rule is a rule of the religion which is not mortal like you as an individual. It is not that you have to put up with it until the day you die, it is an optional religious rule. Everything you do in your mortal life has to fit to your life because you are the one with a free will and a choice. It is not the other people who are suffering from what you are going through so making a choice should be clear of influences. Especially if you are the CEO with the responsibilities to balance your own mortal life. If you know that after your relationship ends you will have to be alone or whatever if that price is more to you then staying in the relationship maybe a better bet. Either way you have got to take responsibility for the out come so don’t blame others, remember you are the one with free will and are in position to make choices.
Unfortunately our extremists believe in the politics of sense of belonging to the point that they don’t care about what an individual feels or goes through in their limited time. Mass over the individual is not a justice so it is not from God, remember in spiritual world there is no injustice period. If we follow any rule which is not equal for everyone it would not be justice and yes even if it is between individual and mass still it is justice. If you connect God with that you are labeling even God as a political entity. Personally I believe God is A political entity because God is spiritual, that is why politics and spirituality can’t be mixed. Even our justice system actually should be blind but unfortunately our politics of belonging is so powerful that our justice systems are politically influenced.
Extremists of any religion or ism would believe that a rule is a rule regardless of its prejudicial and discriminatory stink, they would want everyone to follow it strictly. Interestingly they want those rules to be obeyed as if they are the law. Whether you are freezing or are burning hot is not their problem, to them religious rules are not to to be messed with because to them those rules are coming from God so they have to be followed by human beings blindly. If not they have the punishments just like the law of land but without the court system.
Individual comfort is not to be considered because individual is considered as an animal to be trained. To them individual is universally irrelevant, unimportant worthless and is even a born sinner. People are forced to follow rules as if they are genetically programed and have no option and choice to be comfortable. Unfortunately for them, we all have been blessed with the free will with an evolutionary nature. Until recently human beings deeply believed that they were worthless, unimportant, irrelevant and are born sinners. Our evolution has brought some sobering facts to light, where with awareness we are demanding equal human rights and rejecting religious prejudice and discrimination based philosophy. A religious tradition, custom, ritual and rule is not looked as a rule of law anymore because today prejudice and discrimination can be challenged in the court of law of nations.
To clarify differences between the law of a nation and religious point of views is important and crucial. Logically if you are starving you just can’t think about religious tradition, custom, rituals or rules and as a matter of fact you can’t even think about God. One can say it can’t happen to me because I am a deeply devoted and strictly religious individual. Depending on how far you go with that starvation, it can even take the individual to the point where they can’t think straight. You may pray and ask for God’s help for a while to feed you until you start hallucinating. That is why I believe if an individual is starving and is compelled to commit a social crime that community and God is just as guilty as the individual committing that crime.
Interestingly our belief systems are the things of our full stomach, so logically in the end of the day religion or belief system has to take a back seat for the individual not the other way around. If your belief system causes more discomfort than creating comfort within your skin, those rules would have to be adjusted to comfort you. Remember it is you who is with the mortal nature and a temporary time. Groups whether they are nations or religions carry long after you have gone but individual is the one with a limited time to live.
Since individual has been allotted free will and a status of a CEO it is always up to the individual how to respond whether to follow the rules or not. As a CEO who understands how to live a mortal life, you will are the one who is in charge of your life. Being a mortal its individual’s personal responsibility to find that comfortable balance of physically tolerable temperature of the metaphoric room. A long while back I wrote a blog titled God’s house for sale for one dollar. If you look at it logically we all are God’s work horses. It is our duty and responsibility to pay God’s bills because that is our reciprocation in return of a functioning body, oxygen and spiritual comfort. Again if one is starving and is not physically comfortable usually spirituality takes a hike or at least falls on the back seat of life, so our priorities are to be physically functioning and comfortable to perform Godly work in converting spirituality into physical actions.
If religions are not kept in check by the individual they can stray from spirituality and become political organizations. If you start to look at it that way just check out our history and see what our religions have been doing. Personally I believe every religion should come out of their political pigeonholes and preach spirituality as it is meant to be.
Treat spirituality as a universal truth above and beyond politics of sense of belonging to our groups. Logically main thing about God and humanity as a whole is spirituality not a political sense of belonging. You don’t have to go far just listen to the sermons of religions and judge them for yourself but make sure to be honest about the rhetoric of religious superiority related prejudice and discrimination. Their us and them philosophy has been a part of us all and it can be seen quit clearly in our thousands of years old conflicts.
Regardless of our evolving nature our politics of sense of belonging has been so effective that we have not been evolving in this particular department. We sure need to out grow our ancestral knowledge and evolve to match with all other departments of our present knowledge. We appear to be in ocean and space in everything else but religiously we are still stuck in our ponds as if our needle is stuck and we are repeating the same verse over and over. Regardless of our thousands of years old conflicts we still just can’t evolve from this barbaric practice of robbing love of each other.
Sure a pond with clearly visible boundaries seem secure to the ordinary individual but God and human individual is designed to have no such boundaries. If you learn something new, your neurons in the brain grow more and more indefinitely so putting boundaries around your evolving nature is absolutely not natural so go ahead and break those boundaries to keep learning because that is how you can discover what you are made of. Personally I believe our atom of autonomy is the God particle we all carry within us but our insecurities related politics of sense of belonging keeps us in our ponds. You can literally see it all around you and actually experience it if you start to dig in a little to learn more. For example the more you learn the more you discover the more you can learn so you have to discover and learn more about yourself.
Keeping us in our metaphoric pond boundaries would be absolutely against our nature so our religions preach us to work against our nature with their rules so we can be controlled politically. Just look at our science, technology and medicine then try to put boundaries around it all and see what happens. Since the beginning, religiously conservative populations have always resisted progress yet just look around and see how all those so called Godless people have helped humanity in creating comfort and even saving lives. It is all because in reality God and humanity has no boundaries, so regardless of religious people’s resistance, evolution could not be stopped.
If everybody would have chosen to follow blindly and lived their life in a pond with clearly defined boundaries as our religious people would want us to do. That would make no sense because that would clearly mean, there is no life beyond those boundaries, yet clearly we have proven them wrong by discovering evolving potential of humanity. As human individual there is always something we need to figure out and evolve because that is the order of God for humanity spiritually and physically. It may appear to be contrary to religious beliefs and it is, but it has nothing to do with God. If it was not God’s orders to evolve we would still be throwing virgins over the cliff to please God luckily not everyone of us thinks the same way. That is why I believe our evolution was meant to be by God almighty otherwise we would be like bees or angels, just following our genetics related orders. By believing that there is no life beyond pond’s boundaries does not make that life disappear or change the facts of human existence.
Why would you want to be one of those who resist every single progress made by those human beings whom broke the boundaries you have accepted as ultimate? Why can’t you believe that its God’s will for us to be breaking our self and insecurity related boundaries? Remember as humanity we need to break myths related to our ancestral chains to attain factual knowledge. Not only to break down the boundaries but to reach our God given potential as well.
Believing in being just a sinner, irrelevant, insignificant, or subservient not to God but to a group of people is simply related to our politics of belonging. It does not just rob the individual of self-esteem it can potentially destroy the individual spiritually quit the contrary to the preaching. A spiritually broken individual can’t contribute in evolution because of personal insecurities which can help the political people to win the power they should not have. They are notorious in conformation, indoctrination and in brainwashing youngsters so they can become their loyal foot soldiers. Politically conformed individuals are necessary part of all groups so they can be used as a force against other groups. Remember no group can commit spiritual crimes against opposing groups without the physical help of the individual. Every good or bad thing we do always comes down to the personal decision of the individual, so question your actions before you act out. Remember human beings are individually responsible for their actions because of our atom of autonomy and related free will.
If you individually want to find and follow God you will have to dig within yourself to understand yourself first, learn about the story of reciprocation and then finally learn about your evolving nature. In order to contribute in God’s work you will have to follow the path of evolution so you can be more effective in doing God’s work. More you can help the more you make God almighty. You can’t be stuck in the pond with political boundaries created by your belonging groups. You will have to become the individual what God had meant for you. All the oceans and space rolled up in one tinny package, that you bring along from before birth yes your atom of autonomy makes you a God’s physical work horse or I should say a literal physical part of that spiritual entity. Your atom of autonomy is simply an atom of God so sooner you learn about yourself the better. Learn to become a CEO who questions and assesses how powerful is your politics of sense of belonging and how powerful you are spiritually with that atom of autonomy within you.
I am keep repeating that spirituality and politics can’t be mixed so religions with political boundaries are ponds with the rituals, traditions, customs and rules. Our races, genders, nations and religions all want rights and always for their particular group exclusively. Personally I strongly believe this is related to the politics of sense of belonging and has nothing to do with individual and God. Clearly it is a pond philosophy so don’t ask for special rights from each other as a group but ask for equal and individual human rights because no reasonably spiritual religion, ism, nation or a group of people can deny that.
Its all based on the individual justice and since no one can permanently suppress justice it has been and is a real problem for conflicting groups. Just recently Pope came out and openly said he is for the civil union for homosexuals. If you think it was easy for the pope to make that statement think again because it took two thousand years to right that spiritual wrong. Politically if it was not about the present era related equal human rights they would still be condemning everything what they are compelled to denounce. Religious rules are to be amended with time to fit the comfort of the present day individual because of their short mortal life and it is as spiritual as it can get.
Spirituality is like an ocean it crosses all politically marked territories regardless of the political resistance of groups. When ocean rises no pond can stand a chance to absorb it all or block it, so individually we all should become our real self yes that CEO who out grows boundaries of the ponds. If you stand for or stay within the pond philosophy remember your boundaries are there to keep you from rising to your potential not to save you from the ocean. Understand and recognize that politics which depends on your personal insecurities.
Whether its a gang, community, gender, race, nation or a religion they all are related to the political systems of belonging to groups. Yet potentially human individual is the heart of not only the group but is the essence of God, spirituality and humanity simultaneously just because of that Hu or the atom of autonomy.
THAT IS HOW IMPORTANT YOU ARE, IF YOU HAVE A HU BEFORE YOUR BEING A MAN OR WOMAN YOU ARE THE MAIN CHARACTER OF THIS SPIRITUAL MOVIE.
As I said before politics and spirituality are two different things or entities. If a religion preaches that you can only reach to God by joining a certain group of people, IT IS NOT COMING FROM SPIRITUALITY OR GOD. Unfortunately they are making even God a political entity so having faith in a group of people or having faith in God become two different things. Especially if they say, if you don’t follow them you will go to hell. No one and I repeat no one has the knowledge of who is going to hell or heaven after they are dead, so don’t assume about the things you don’t know or implicate God as a politically biased entity not only it is an area where our understanding is limited it would be a disrespect to label God as a political and human like entity.
Dividing humanity is political and ungodly period. Following the potential of humanity and evolution of the individual is not only Godly but is a spiritual order for us as humanity.
As human beings we can’t deny that even as groups, you can see that clearly in all over the world. Regardless of our divisive politics, resistance of nations and religious indoctrination, we individually and collectively still grow and evolve. Look into the history certain political forces have always resisted changes yet changes have always prevailed. Today Pope is talking about the major shift in belief system but it is not because he had a change of heart. It all happen because of equal human rights have changed their prejudicial and discriminatory political rules. Just like climate changes are requiring people of the whole world to change, or like Corona virus has forced to change everyone. Equal human rights are inspiring humanity to work as one entity to survive. If your nation has constitution which puts people at different levels its time to make some amendments. Other than Americans most of western nations can be used as models where people of all walks of colors and belief systems can live with equal human rights.
Interestingly that political tug of war still goes on but we keep breaking the boundaries of our ponds and are drawn towards humanity as a whole so I hope other religious leaders come out and accept the wrong they have been doing for thousands of years. Remember they even blamed and literally punished the innocent babies by calling them bastards just because they were born out of wedlock of religion. Any kind of injustice can’t be spiritual and should not be connected to God because it brings God down to human individual level. Sure we are the physical part of God but we are just the cell of God and you can’t just claim you know all about God as an entity. Remember a seed or a cell of the body can’t be compared with the whole tree or the body so if we implicate God in our human like behaviors we are actually degrading God almighty. If you have some respect for God not to bring God down to the human individual level regardless of our powers we still are dependent on the oxygen and harmoniously running of our bodies and we have absolutely no control over our functioning.
Fundamental reason is that as we grow with our knowledge, we are understanding that we have different kind of problems and they can’t be solved with our groups related security walls or political lines. For instance global warming related extreme weather respects no boundaries of groups. Our physical glob has global problems so the solutions for them would take global response. Pandemic of Corona virus requires global responses, global warming related problems would not be stopped by Trump wall or China Wall period. Our political lines have been drawn by us and those lines are not good enough to solve our problems, so our biggest job needs to be done by us all to become as one humanity to deal with our present problems.
Internet related crimes need global coordination of law and order. Our prejudice and discrimination related issues can’t be solved unless they are treated like an infectious disease by all groups. If equal human rights are not practiced by the humanity as a whole they would not mean anything for the individual regardless of where they are born.
Looking into the past to solve present problems has been common in our conservative groups which is absolutely wrong because it has been and is still creating more and dangerous problems for humanity. Our past is riddled with conflicts related to our less evolved ancestry. Unfortunately we still keep fighting and killing each other over the things happened thousands of years ago. We all should give each other a break from our ancestral lack of knowledge and grow up or I should say evolve for God sake. Especially from the politics of sense of belonging to our groups. We should only look into the past to find the causes of present and future problems so we can find reasonable solutions.
An evolving life like human being should always live and be in the present moment. Small may be but still in the moment so we can have some control in our present day living. Remember you can’t go back in the past to change anything and you can’t bring future into the present, so all you got is the present moment where you have a say or somewhat control. If someone says otherwise, just ask them to prove it. There are movies that discus all the hypothetical time travel but in reality there are certain things we can’t change. We can’t stop aging, we can’t change mortality nor we can brings past and future to present simple as that so live in the moment if you want to have some kind of control and peace of mind in your mortal life. If you can’t you have to work on your faith and that only comes when you are aware of spirituality. Even if you don’t believe in God you still can understand and have spirituality related faith. Personally I believe you already have all that, you just have to explore yourself at a little deeper level.
Just like our body is consisted of all kinds and trillions of cells, God is consisted of human beings as physical cells. Since our mortal life is consisted of moments it seems as if we have lots of time so we plan to live and sometime forever or at least we try. There is nothing wrong to have a plan or a place you can call home, but as a mortal being your real home is where you have came from and where you are going.
What is before life or after death does matter and we all are curious about it ever since of our awareness. Interestingly we all have to individually decide how to live in the moment with the literal knowledge of coming and going? Personally I believe that makes it even more important to stay in the moment because it is a precious moment and remember you don’t have a say other than being in that moment. As a mortal being our quest should be to treasure our precious moments. Planing to live forever and being attached to things, people, control and security would rob the real meaning or essence of a mortal life. If life is a thick book with thousands of pages having few pages of bad stuff does not describe the book or as they say you can’t judge the whole book by its cover. We just have to live optimistically in the moment and hope for the best but in the end of the day we need to focus on the happiness and contentment of mortal living.
Our religions at their glory to Roman Empire to (Changaiz Gangaze Khan) to all other empires including English Empire. Humanity has its history which lasts a lot longer than a mortal individual. Sure we have powers to achieve things as an individual but the problem is always our individual mortality. Interestingly it does not end at our individual mortality, history has shown us yet with proof of grave yard full of empires as well so for us human beings collective mortality is a reality as well. Since we are all able to think differently our education can play a crucial role for us individually. If no one talks about our mortal nature the importance of our moments can be lost so we all should value on our moments.
That is why some time our sense of belonging and some time our sense of freedom gets the best of us. We even rob each other of life in the name of our political education. Whether it be in the name of religion, nationalism or personal gains killing comes easy to us because of our animal side is not tamed so it has the power to overpower spiritual side. If you feel that your politics of belonging to your group values more than your life, at the least you should ask yourself why?
As I said before, just like human body is consisted of trillions of cells God is consisted of human beings, even if it seem we can’t put a face or body on God, God physically functions through us. Sure we born and die like our own cells but that does not change our insignificance. Each and every cell is significant to the body’s survival so God’s physical functioning is dependent on the physical actions of living breathing human beings. Interestingly we happen to kill each other to undermine opposing groups which in reality is a net loss for God. So definitely our killing each other is not coming from God because no matter how insignificant one cell is, it is still a cell loss and loss is still a loss. To me no one in the right mind would want to cut a body part off or commit suicide. A thought to ponder for us all.
Don’t forget I said in the right mind, by knowing the power of our politics of belonging we can’t deny our human story, we actually get so messed up by the politics of our sense of belonging that we lose control of even ourselves.
What to do?
Always remember we have an evolving nature so every human knowledge should have room for amendments and improvements. If you look our scientific, technological and medical knowledge everything has been changing and has changed tremendously but when it comes to our religions we are stuck in our prejudice and discrimination related ponds. Clearly we have not evolved in that area because we still kill each other over our differences. Our biggest reason is politics of our sense of belonging to our groups. Even now while there is still time for us to take that leap of faith with our spirituality related equal human rights and evolve to tolerate each others differences and join to humanity as a whole. BEFORE WE BLOW OURSELVES UP WITH MODERN DAY WEAPONRY.
If having faith adds quality or helps us to live a mortal life with some hope, optimism and comfortable temperature then it should be seriously looked at individually. Yes even for the individual who does not believe in God and consider themselves educated, believes in science and is numbers oriented. Faith is still a crucial part of human living because of mortality. Since faith is not only a building block for optimism, it provides much needed hope in our day today life. We have to look at our personal and especially mortal life critically to see the importance of faith, hope and optimism. One can reject all this as mambo jumbo of some religion but I am not talking about any religious beliefs I am talking about faith.
When we think life is all numbers and science, we remove one crucial part of being a human being, yes I am talking about our spiritual side which is necessary for individual happiness. Especially when we are all aware of our mortal nature. Most of the time our personal spiritual deficiencies are behind our everyday including all kind of health problems. If you don’t have faith, spiritual deficiencies can be the culprit robbing you of your happiness and contentment. So remember these two personal happiness and contentment are the most important treasures to collect while you are visiting.
As a matter of fact scientifically end up at the same mortality related cliff as our religious take us to so if you want to make assumptions make them for the benefits of your mortal visit. You can live with all the scientific facts and accurate numbers or jump over the cliff with faith because either way we need some courage, hope and optimism to live and die as a mortal. On the other hand our evolving nature is a fact of life as well so as we evolve we need to learn all about our politics of sense of belonging related rigidity. Interestingly our scientific and technological knowledge preaches and treats human being as a machine. As if we are consisted of numbers and scientifically correct answers so to them believing in God just does not make any sense.
To me in our core there are three crucial forces are at work, our physical body with brain, our atom of autonomy related spiritual side and the one who gets a name as we come to our physical existence. The full human being who makes decisions and over rides our physically and spiritually conflicting sides. If you look at yourself as a machine you are looking at yourself as a physical entity exclusively who is just like other physically functioning creatures. If you just look at yourself as an atom of autonomy you are looking at yourself as a spiritual entity exclusively, opposite to being a machine and you may end up believing and living for after life exclusively. Yet our realities are not limited to either extreme.
As an individual who over rides both extreme sides you learn that it is your life and you are in charge or I should say the CEO who makes choices with your free will. You can choose to live for after life or live scientifically correct and ignore the other not so visible but facts of your individual existence. For instance actually enjoying your mortal life, feeling good by being spiritual and reciprocating. Would scientifically accurate living teach you about spiritual side or who and what you really are? How you need to enjoy your journey even if it is going to end? Would you learn about spiritual jewelry from your scientifically correct knowledge? I personally don’t think so. If helping others is a net loss why do you feel good about those actions? There are a whole lot of things we enjoy like compassion, sacrifice, bravery, forgiveness, honesty, personal sense of justice, decency and above all love. To me just like God and cliff of faith and all the above are our not so visible but still facts of our life. Even though they don’t make any scientific sense to you, before you believe in anything blindly whether its the cliff of faith or scientifically proven facts. You have to think that you are not done with your evolution. You can not and I repeat can not become prejudice, discriminatory and kill each other over your evolving knowledge. Remember the foot prints you are following end when you reach that cliff of faith so it is not what is beyond that cliff matters. What matters most is what you do while you are following the foot prints of your ancestors. Do you want to carry on being prejudice and discriminatory and kill each other as we have been doing or you want to follow the nature of evolution what God had really meant for us human beings?
As a constantly evolving entity how can we look at our knowledge as conclusive? Whether it is religious, scientific, technological or medical non of our knowledge has a cap or freezing from God. Yet we always have had certain segment of population who thought and still think life should be frozen in the time. In the eras of our prophets. Just look at it what it had done to the humanity, from racism to gender biased to prejudice and discrimination of all kind and even resistance to evolution. Most of our religions are the simplest examples because we still fight and kill each other over our belief systems yet most passionately and in the name of the politics of sense of belonging.
Religions usually say life is simple for the individual by believing. That there is God and Devil, if you believe, follow the orders, consider them as the ultimate authority and be good. You will go to heaven or hell according to your behavior. Our good and bad is given a stander by our religious authority so in the nut shell whatever was good or bad in the era of our prophets still carries weight even in our modern day societies yet everything has changed. Interestingly pope has just acknowledged gay marriage.
Anyway they gave us the picture of God if we are good and Devil if we are bad, with heaven and hell as reward and punishment simple as that. Now just look around and see what has happened in last two thousand years of imbalanced evolution? Humanity has become aware of the importance of human individual, we now have equal human rights, our laws of the lands protect homosexuals just like heterosexuals and even other kinds regardless of what our mullahs, priests or rabbi say. For some or especially for the conservative segment of population it may still be wrong but today our wrongs and rights have been switching places. With scientific advances we can create test tube babies, we can see if something is wrong with fetus so abortion is an option. We can use stem cells, we have nuclear weapons we have people living in space, most of us have cell phones and we Google anything we want to know. Things are changing so fast that conservatives don’t know what to do with evolving and progressing humanity. Equal human rights are desired by the majority of human beings because of spiritual rule number one. DON’T DO TO ANYONE WHAT YOU DON’T LIKE DONE TO YOU OR TO YOUR LOVED ONES.
That puts most if not all religious beliefs in a pickle of prejudice and discrimination. They have blood dripping from their fangs yet politically they are coming out and accepting equal human rights, gay marriage and religious freedom because people started to shift to lose importance of religions. Even pope had bend and denounce prejudice and discrimination I am waiting for other religious leaders to join him. Remember because of the politics of sense of belonging religious knowledge is usually considered as conclusive and ultimate yet spirituality is broad, inconclusive and universal. Anyone who is spiritually inclined would denounce injustice done to the innocents by the prejudicial and discriminatory religious differences related politics. Religions may talk about spiritual things but they usually are for followers and believers of their belonging religion.
If you have compassion, justice, tolerance, forgiveness, sacrifice, love and God they have been consistent in humanity as a whole. Yet most of our religious knowledge has been and still is connected to our prejudice and discrimination against each other. It has nothing to do with spirituality and God but everything to do with the politics of sense of belonging to our groups. Usually groups preach that their knowledge is conclusive and superior to others which has been and is the cause of our conflicts not only with other groups but with in the groups as well.
With the progress of social sciences things have been challenged and proven wrong over and over. For example prejudice and discrimination has always been, is and will always be wrong for a society but our religious people still would not accept that all people are equal to God. They believe in good, bad heaven, hell, us and them philosophy as a conclusive and ultimate knowledge. Yet our spiritual knowledge is designed to make the individual a decent human being with the personal sense of justice. Contrary to our religious standards because they want the individual to be under the influences of the politics of belonging group so they can be used politically.
Question would be if an individual who is prejudicial and discriminatory against God’s people how can it be possible for them to enter heaven? To me no matter how strictly they follow religion, pray, fast or perform religious rituals, being prejudiced and discriminatory is a spiritual crime. Putting others and eventually self into living hell should not be a ticket to heaven after they are dead.
Since belief system attachments are taught or indoctrinated in early and tender age, it is hard to undo them even for the highly educated and grown up individual. Our sense of belonging related political education is another factor but it can all be solved if an individual uses personal sense of justice to avoid doing things to others what they don’t like done to themselves or to their loved ones.
Remember our racism, nationalism and our religions related wars are actually based on our prejudice and discrimination. Fear of others and love for belonging groups has been and still is standing tall on the knowledge of political differences. Yet interestingly in reality most of the individual sufferings come from the belonging groups related individuals. Don’t agree with me just look at the social crimes of the societies. We commit spiritual crimes against each other more often than we go to wars and kill each other. Our personal security is violated by the belonging people all the times. When it comes down to people fighting and killing each other in the name of belonging groups, belief systems or nationalism, one has to understand spirituality, personal sense of justice and related responsibilities so they can function as a good person universally.
Racial or religious violence like mob attacks can only be stopped by the self regulating individual taking personal responsibility. Not taking part in mob attacks is a personal and spiritual choice because you don’t want all that done to you or to your loved ones. In the end of the day remember religion or your belief system falls into your personal matters because you are a natural CEO of your life. Since you have been blessed with the free will even God has left you free to choose. Your life to live with choice is your personal prerogative so you suppose to choose reciprocation to help the humanity as a whole.
Group strength is a political matter and politics requires lies and deceits to bend the truth. If you put lies and deceits into your belief system it would rob you of your spirituality. That is why I claim politics and spirituality can’t be mixed so when a religion let that happen or run as a political party they become a political system and simply are not a spiritual belief system any more.
If a cat can change and heal itself then why can’t we? The difference is that their faith is pure and blind yet we as human beings have thousands of thoughts related doubts and doubts related pollution within us. Why would meditation work for human beings? Ask this question to yourself and then look at your faith critically. You will find the reasons for those thousands of doubts. Remember other than few all other creatures don’t have saving plans. Bees and human beings are interesting creatures with interesting nature, they both save and keep more than they consume. As human beings we have a habit to take not only from other human beings but from other creatures as well not only because we can but because we have lack of faith as well.
Zeyaan the CAT can teach you a thing or two about the faith because of his personal experience. Zeyaan was getting sick or throwing up a lot so some how I ended up with him. I was trying to figure out what was his problem? Every time I would put food into his dish he would just dive into it as if he did not eat for days. He would finish it all just to throw up. I thought of changing his food but I wanted him to learn and trust that there would always be food for him. So I started to keep his dish full all the time even I was told to feed him just twice a day. Since I was observing his behavior I found out that he was not eating just because of hunger there were different triggers for him to go to his dish. For instance every time I got up even in the middle of the night to use wash room, he would go to his dish, or when I would walk in after being out for a while he would want me to brush him. While he is getting brushed he would go to the dish, long story short he would eat not because of hunger exclusively. So keeping his dish full did the trick, he learned to eat a little bit and leave the rest for later. What happened here is that he built his faith that food is always going to be there so he does not have to finish it all, eat too much or too fast.
Interestingly he ate pretty much the same amount but without getting sick. He learned patience to the point that one day I stood there with his food in my hand he took a turn and lay down just to prove that he is not in rush and is being patient. I tried few times but he never jumped in to food like before. His faith was established and developed to the point that he does not even bother to run for the food even he sees me putting it in his dish. This is not a made up story. This blog was triggered by Zeyaan.
Now look around and observe human behavior you will see lack of that faith what Zeyaan had. That lack of faith has not only been making us sick it makes us kill each other as well. Meaning we are not starving but we are starving of that spiritual faith. Our food is bought by the money so metaphorically money is our food and we all are hungry even if we are not starving. Sure starvation is an undeniable reality of humanity with the causes and to me our biggest cause is our lack of faith. Both rich and poor are suffering from this spiritual disorder. I was able to build trust and faith in Zeyaan but building trust and true faith in humanity is a task and a half. Remember even after thousands of years of hard work our religions could not achieve that trust and faith in humanity how can I just writ a blog to solve this enormous problem of humanity.
Personally I think we missed out on spiritual education because our politics of sense of belonging took over our religions. Prejudice and discrimination created an environment that even Godly people rob each other of their faith in spirituality. Rituals, traditions, customs and rules first, philosophy robbed religions of their spirituality. Common sense and decency took a back seat and we fought wars in the name of God but politically for our belonging groups. We lost faith in spirituality and God but put all our eggs in the religious beliefs baskets which was actually a political basket. I broke the rule to feed Zeyaan twice a day to build his faith and trust but unfortunately it can’t be done with all the bickering and rhetoric of religious rules. Spiritual faith builds not by following or obeying rules of any one particular belief system but by the good intentions related to spirituality. You can’t demand to obey religious rules, it has to come from the love of spirituality especially when we are still an evolving entity.
With the limited use of our brain power we can’t just intellectualize and believe passionately that our groups can’t be wrong. By looking back in the history one can judge for themselves. If we are an evolving entity we all need to keep room to be wrong and not to blame others and ourselves. If we give each other a break in the name of evolution we would be able to take that next step to get to the next level of evolution. It is being egotistic to fight over who is right and wrong with constantly evolving knowledge.
During the wars our generals usually give speeches to inspire the soldiers to go kill or get killed. To a lesser degree our sport teams coaches inspire athletes before game time. Interestingly these inspirational speeches are effective because as human beings we get deeply touched and physically release hormones. People wear colors, toot horns and do waves to inspire their belonging teams. It has been going on for thousands of years whether it is sport team, nation or our religions we naturally get inspired by the politics of our sense of belonging. Yet it has nothing to do with spirituality or psychology, it is totally physical. If your hormones go up and down with the score of your team you are deeply under the influences of those inspirational speeches and yes even if you are not playing as a player. You always have been and still are an entity to be discovered further and further so evolve for God sake from the influences of physical hormones and step into your spiritual zone to discover yourself.
Now does this mean we are collectively more of an animal than being a human being. If that is the case how are we going to evolve any further to create balance within the individual. Are we going to kill each other for ever? Or as an individual understand not to respond to the whims of our hormones. Foundation of all our laws and rules of societies are based on our individual regulation and restraint, that means we can’t just respond to our hormones like other animals. How are we going to learn about our personal authority to do the justice and accept to appreciate someone’s better play and yes even if it is played by the opposing team player. Appreciate the evolution of humanity and not to give into the hormones related emotions.
If you want to seek spiritual comfort in your mortal skin, start cleaning up from within. Our problems stem from the politics of sense of belonging to our groups. This politics gives birth to our false yet politically accepted truths and if we are not honest and spiritually clean from within we can’t find that spiritually comfortable zone. Regardless of following all the traditions, customs, rituals or rules of our religions we can still be starving spiritually. Remember if there is prejudice and discrimination there is no spirituality because God can’t be for some and not for others. It is a human weakness to favor some not all and that can’t be attache to God almighty. Spiritual comfort can’t be achieved in the presence of prejudice and discrimination period.
When it comes to mortal nature there is nothing more important to find spiritual comfortable zone. Sure religions brought awareness of spirituality but they could not keep prejudice and discrimination at the bay so they became victims of the politics of sense of belonging themselves. Not only collectively we became corrupt, we individually got robbed of our spiritual jewelry as well. Our personal sense of justice, free will, compassion, ability to forgive, ability to sacrifice and above all ability to love of individual and humanity as a whole.
If politics of belonging to a group of people is running in your blood your soul can’t be spiritually comfortable. Remember you are individually holding an atom of autonomy within you so you should not become a victim of the poisonous politics of prejudice and discrimination. Best anti dote for this poisonous and political problem is equal and individual human rights.
Since we are an evolving entity all our knowledge, whether it is related to our religions, science, technology, social or governing systems like democracy socialism, or communism they all should be subject to change with changing times especially our constitutions and religious rules should not be written in the stone. In the days of equal human rights nothing is perfect because you lose individual rights if you follow mass over individual. If you give total freedom to the individual they would hoard everything because of insecurities so they would take away the circulating resources. Which can drive some people to social crimes because they have to survive. If a system leads to security issues it should be looked at critically for the foundational causes.
In the bush and cave times our security was personal power and strength but with time things have changed and today security is a responsibility of a governing authority. That is why we have law and order with politics to enforce the rules. Understanding the causes can help to find the real solutions for evolving problems. Social chaos can be avoided if our governing systems can provide individuals of basic rights.
Individually your free will is there to make you a CEO of your life so understand your standing in the grand scheme of life. If you are having trouble just look at our governing systems, our progress in technology, transportation, medicine and everything in between has been growing leaps and bonds. If you use any of the modern inventions, acknowledge, respect, appreciate and credit them because humanity has been and still is going through growing pains and tough journey of evolution to comfort you.
All the good stuff came from all over the world, grow up to respect the reality, over come the politics of sense of belonging to your groups. Remember to acknowledge and respect the one who created foot prints in the snow first. Usually people who use those foot prints don’t acknowledge their peace of mind is because of those who went through the pain of uncertainty. Now opposite to that is if you follow those foot prints and they lead you to a metaphoric cliff and expect you to jump. If you do with the hope that you will find the path with the rest of foot prints to carry on even in your death.
Today I would be looking at our religions differently, if we were not killing each other following our ancestral foot prints I would be fine with it but to me if the foot prints lead us to kill each other over our belief systems. I would rather be uncomfortable and walk towards uncertainty and create new foot prints for my coming generation so they don’t keep killing each other the way we do.
Don’t be a history follower create history while you are alive and can, remember you can’t do that if you are stuck thinking that there is no other way beyond religious education.
Just like you send well wishes to your prophets you should be sending some love to those who invented life saving medicines for you as well. If someone is alive because of some medical interventions they should not forget those who helped practically. As you walk out of the hospital and send love to your prophet send some to the inventor the technology which has saved you. Using personal sense of justice is a trade mark of a CEO who looks at life and says it as it is. Think spiritually and be honest because your atom of autonomy is sitting right within you. If you are not honest even with yourself you are under the influences of politics of sense of belonging to a group of people. If someone like your Mullah, Priest or Rabi makes you prejudiced think of being spiritual not political.
Anybody who kills in the name of religious beliefs, they are following the foot prints to the cliff and jump in the hope to find the path of foot prints even in their death. This cliff is the one where faith should be discussed not with eyes closed but with open mind. This is the place where religions usually demand individual to follow blindly yet this is the place an individual should be helped by clearly defined explanation. Unfortunately this is where the differences of opinions brings individual to fall victim of egotistic ideologies and kill each other in the name of religious beliefs. Interestingly this is the area where no one has come up with any proof or has a foundation to stand on, no one has a concrete evidence or video clippings of what happens after we die so we don’t really have 100% doubt free authentically proven argument against a questioning scientist. You individually can believe 100% and become an extremist and jump over the cliff with your eyes closed or you may have some doubts and believe 30% or 3% or none at all and become an extremist on the opposing side.
Other than extreme assumptions to kill each other over the lost foot prints because we have metaphorically reached the cliff. Religions can come up with a whole lot of education for how to live life with all kind of traditions, customs, rituals and rules but they can’t really argue about faith with scientifically proven facts. Sure religious faith starts where our individual intellect fails to understand. Still it leaves room for disagreements and especially in this particular areas we have lots of passionate disagreements conflicts and even wars. It could be either we don’t understand clearly or we are not able to use our brain power enough to know everything about what is before birth and after death so we egotistically assume and make them as part of our belief systems.
I would rather pause and question my behavior and choose to walk with my eyes open. If I walk with my eyes open to question everything it would be my individual rights. No one should be forced to jump, to me it would be like we use to throw virgins over the cliff to please God. I believe if there is no 100% knowledge to argue no one should be forced to believe in whatever is popular or is accepted truth by a group of people. I would gladly walk with discomfort of uncertainty related feelings because I believe there is more to explore and learn beyond the politics of sense of belonging. When in doubt always remember that you are the one who converts spirituality into physical actions while you are in your living years. If you have been reciprocating you have nothing to worry about what happens after you die. There will be enough for you to feel comfortable in your mortal skin because you have done everything for the love of God not for the greed of heaven or fear of hell. If you are spiritually satisfied you don’t need to doubt the foot prints you can create your own if needed. You just have to have faith in what and who you are. YOU GIVE PHYSICAL LIFE TO GOD AS YOU RECEIVE SPIRITUAL LIFE FROM GOD. THIS SPIRITUAL CLAP HAS NO SOUND IF IT IS ONLY ONE SIDED SO RESPECT YOURSELF BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT IRRELEVANT, UNIMPORTANT NOR YOU ARE A BORN SINNER.
Any extreme behavior is related to our hormonal response and that is not a thing to be proud of, because it is a response from our animal side and as human beings we are suppose to evolve from all that to become a spiritual being. Those hormones are coming from the inspirational speeches of your Generals, Coaches, Mullahs, Priests and Rabies. So snap out of it become a spiritual entity instead of a creature who responses on the whims of hormones. All our laws of lands are a proof that we are not to follow our animal instincts, we suppose to self regulate and use restraint because its impossible for the government to hire a cop for each and every individual to be controlled.
Remember its not all about the foot prints beyond the cliff, but it is all about the foot prints you follow while you are alive. If they are unable to make you a good and decent individual or inspire you to go kill in the name of your belonging group you have a free will to change. No I am not preaching about changing and joining any particular religion or nation, I am preaching spirituality and nothing but. If you want to be political use that in your governing systems but leave your belief and justice systems out of your political views. Learn about the reciprocation to God directly to feed your soul so you are not spiritually starving.
Usually religions don’t accept that their foot prints lead you to the cliff yet in the end of your days you eventually get there and see there is no more foot prints but a cliff. Either you jump as you are suggested or stop to ponder what needs to be done by you. If you don’t jump you are to be blamed of no faith, because religious foot prints have not been and are not to be questioned. As an evolving entity for us human beings we simply stop evolving if we don’t question. Evolution is in our spiritual and physical DNA and can’t be denied. If you do, just look around and see what is going on especially in the era of equal human rights. Like in the past today no religion can push or force you to believe in what they are preaching and especially about the foot prints beyond the cliff.
Time of throwing virgins over the literal cliff have passed today we know the path of storms way before they hit our communities. Science explains all about deadly diseases like Corona virus and we know a whole lot more than our ancestors about health. Sure we don’t have all the answers but as an evolving entity we would always have something to discover. Especially when it comes to our belief systems they don’t want to answer our questions because we all have to die first to find out the real story of the foot prints beyond the cliff.
You can believe in religious stories of prophets and their love of God but I am talking about the ordinary individual and what they can do to me our understanding should be that there is way more to learn for an evolving entity. A religious belief can lead you and tell you how to live a successful mortal life with hope and optimism but when it comes to the cliff you are left on your own to believe blindly that those religious foot prints would be there when you jump over the cliff.
To me everything is fine until we start to believe to the point that we kill others who don’t believe on the foot prints beyond the cliff. Remember I said, you have to die first to know the real story of the foot prints you are following, whether they would be there after you have jumped over the cliff. So the question is, should we kill each other over that unknown mythological belief systems? It does not matter what foot prints you are following, you just can’t rob anyone of their life over something you can’t really understand, prove or know 100%. You can’t be passionate about the foot prints beyond the cliff because we are not evolved enough to know the real truth. One thing is for sure we all have to be decently evolved individuals to understand spirituality and reciprocation which will allow us to tolerate our political differences.
Add some com before your passion and wear your spiritual jewelry with pride instead of taking it off in the name of your belonging group. Be a CEO who is a spiritually advanced and evolved instead of being a puppet who follow those foot prints blindly and falls over the cliff to kill and die under the influences of politically inspired hormones release. If you want to know and talk about faith, have faith in evolution. If God is taking care of your life and death why don’t you believe that your evolution is God’s will related as well. Reaching your evolving potential is not going to take you on the edge of the cliff because just like spirituality and God you yourself have no boundaries other than those you create for yourself. You don’t have any cliffs either because you already carry the depths of the oceans and space within you.
In the dead of night or deep within yourself whatever goes on it is not between you and the people or your prophet but between you and God through your atom of autonomy or God particle within you. Understanding yourself can help you to know your real identity. If you are lost like lots of people who’s identities are compromised by the politics of sense of belonging. You will always put your race, gender, color of your skin, ancestry, nation, religion or even your education degree before you being a human being.
Logically your deep and personal thinking should be about you and your well being during your living years. If even your deep and personal thinking is influenced by other human beings it is a clear sign of you are not looking at your life as a CEO and you disrespect your atom of autonomy related free will. Remember you are not like other creatures and are not genetically programed. You are not a drop in the ocean nor you are irrelevant, unimportant, or a born sinner. You hold all the oceans and space put together within a drop.
Living your life according to others opinion means you yourself are making yourself irrelevant, insignificant, and are robbing your own self-esteem. By believing all that you can not only reach your God given potential, you actually are disobeying the real order of God. Yes if you don’t evolve you are not following God’s will.
You may hope that when you reach your cliff of faith you will see the foot prints beyond the cliff and carry one in your life after death whatever your ancestors preached about. You actually would be following the same path as your ancestors did so your high rise building would be without the foundation. That can fall with the strong wind of factual argument. Sure we need faith but we need to have it on the stronger foundation. Not only for others but for personal reasons like spiritual satisfaction and fulfillment. That is where individual faith really matters and can help the individual to live a mortal life with comfort related happiness and contentment. Instead of damaging life by not having faith in anything. By not trusting in anything or anybody you simply can’t have any meaningful relationship. Not with people around, not even with family or God so the stress of uncertainty would rob you of all kind of health. Including spiritual, mental, emotional and eventually physical health as well. Having all kind of health problems while being mortal is just too much to ignore faith.
Just have faith by looking at your journey, your progress, and your potential then see where you are at and how you got there. From childhood to adulthood to where ever you are in your life you can clearly see that your faith constantly plays a roll. It is all regardless of the turmoils humanity is constantly going through. I would end it with the Quote from Alama Iqbal where he says to have faith and fly high. I “Quote”
” Why are you falling for a piece of grain like a sparrow, Keep your flight high so you can become an Eagle”. End quote..