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Inner peace during the living days of the human individual is one of the most important treasure for the mortal being. A mortal life can be literally a living hell, if one has a habit of living without the happiness and contentment. Its a hell of a price to pay for living and dying for materiel, controlled and secure life. It is as clear as it can be mortality is mortality. Depending on the education and the purpose of an individual’s life, the knowledge of mortality can be quite important.
I believe we are a combination of animal and human side, no one can choose one or the other exclusively, if someone tries, they will fail to live a balanced life as an individual. The successful mortal life of the human individual is in the moderation instead of the extreme of either side. With the free will the individual has to find the center do divide the perfect triangle in half to keep each side happy and content.
If you live in a total deprivation, you may succeed to become a selfless and admired human being, but as an individual with the CEO’s duty of the self care as well so living with inner conflict is like choosing to become a head of department instead of being a CEO.
The conflicts inside, can not be over powered with the strict regimes. The main question would be that, is living a mortal life being unhappy and torn apart from within, worth the struggle?.
If practice have been known to make us perfect, then by now our societies should be crime free, priests would not be convicted of sexual crimes, war crimes and atrocities would be the things of our distant past and we would be perfectly evolved old souls, but unfortunately we have been plagued by the crimes even other creatures would be ashamed of.
To me cause of this clausal failure as a social being is, that singularly and collectively, we are always seeking extreme control, and control is because of the awareness of mortality. This awareness should actually help us to understand mortality and ourselves, so we can do the justice to all departments of our individual life, but it is not only tearing us apart as individually it has been and is one of the main cause of all our political wars.
If you use your free will during your living years, you are blessed to be a CEO. If you are created as a human being, you should not pretend or try to be something other than that, no other creature tries to change their identity. They may try to change color to protect themselves from the predators or try to catch the pray, other than that they accept themselves as they are.
Only human beings are not happy to be human being, we try to change ourselves all the time whether it be clothing or hairdo it has to be according to the trends. Dark wants to be light, light wants to tan, short wants to be tall, thin wants to gain weight, heavy wants to lose weight etc.
Human is not an animal nor is an angle, so what are we?
If you just start to look at your life as a gift or blessing of God, the wisdom would start to reveal itself. The free will gives you a choice, and by choice if you pick some thing which is pleasing others, sure it is a great thing for the others, but what is it doing to you inside as an individual is the main question you should be asking yourself. If you are not torn apart inside, it’s great, you can live your life serving others, but as you do that, you develop personal expectations as well. If they are not met, you will face resentment, and that animal inside of you, is going to rip you apart. If there is no balance, it is because, you have rejected the personal responsibility and the importance of your animal side.
If every body around you is talking about being a good human being, every movie, every book and everyday TV, which glorifies the human side. Every religious book, and our law and order of our societies, preaches the obedience to the authorities, you will automatically be drawn to follow and accept all the rules as normal status quo, regardless of how you feel inside. Our governing educators should know that the animal imbalance can and does bring the extreme imbalance in all departments of life of the individual thus harms to society as a whole. For instance you could be praying, going to church or to the mosque religiously, live life in control yet let go in the food department and become obese and frustrated, or the other way around, have total control in the food department yet have no personal control, principles and ethics in every day life. It is like a pendulum if you keep it in the center, things are in balance but if you swing it too far to one side, it will take you to the other side even further. Meaning you will lose control to keep your inner peace.
If our teachings are of extreme, and we don’t or can’t question because of the strong and out of balance sense of belonging and conditioning of our groups. If the individual has the fear of being shunned, yet the suppressed desire to question, is one of the cause which has the power to rob the inner peace of the individual. No body else sees or cares to connects this to the social ills, so it is only you as an individual who suffers.
Nature has created you as a human being, and as a human being, in order to experience a physical life, a part of you is physically functioning like an animal. It is totally legitimate, regardless of what your ancestors thought or you think today. No one has been able to, or would be able to change this fact of our life, it is there to stay whether you personally like it on not. There is no reason to feel bad or inferior, if you feel the animalistic desires that is part of your make up. That is the reason why the free will is there to balance our everyday life regardless of all the inner turmoil. You are torn not because of the wisdom of nature, it is the knowledge and education of control and conformation which makes you feel bad about yourself.
If you feel like eating some thing bad and you don’t because you don’t want to be obese, look bad or be abnormal, you are trying to control which makes you more of a human and less of an animal. One can think that our practices should make us all in better shape, highly evolved human beings, but when you look at the reality, we have more obesity more depression, anxiety, unhappiness these days regardless of our knowledge, today there are more torn apart people who are willing to kill even themselves, than ever before because they don’t like to be out of control and look bad in the societies they live in.
The inner peace is not available in the best of us, so what to do and where to go for it. Plain and simple answer is to look inside as an individual. Just stand in front of the mirror and look through your eyes to the person who lives into your body and ask, if he/she is happy or sad and why? Most of the time the individual with limited knowledge would have low self-esteem, would want to fit in, has desire be admired or impress others around all the time. If you feel that way and are able to communicate that much with yourself, then you should be able to look at the body as your car and yourself as a driver, the functioning of your car is the most complex thing there it is. Just look at the functioning of the body with one function at a time, it is a miracle that we are alive because of the complexities of health and should be thankful to be functioning alive and then look at the reasons of the available oxygen.
Then ask yourself if your Free will, Animal and Human triangle is in balance, if not look for the cause. Cause is found in how to use your free will and become a CEO, so you can question every thing, including whatever your belonging groups have sold you to you to keep you in control.
We have been following what ever has been preached to us. Some how we got the notion, that God wants us to kill the animal inside so we can become angles. That is not true we are created as a human being and we have been implanted with the two opposing sides and a free will. If God created us with the conflicting senses that does not mean that God has imperfect knowledge, it is a perfect wisdom for us to evolve to become whatever we have the potential to be. Everyday we are learning new things, that is as clear as it can be to understand that we are not a finished product thus our knowledge is not perfect and complete.
My belief says God created human being with more than he/she thinks of him/her self. There is a little God in each and every one of us, we are just like an organism spiritually connected yet not connected physically, so believing knowledge is complete is egotistic and ignorant behavior and it is strongly related with the politically charged sense of belonging.
The decent side prevails and comes out, if we have inner peace and harmony. If we learn to use the free will, we can create balance in our senses and desires thus we manifest God, otherwise we manifest what we feel about ourselves. For instance our deeply seeded insecurities inspire us to control and commit spiritual crimes against our own kind.
Instead of creating balance we try to go to either extreme, because we are taught that way, thus it feels right, so the animal side is constantly suppressed. With this suppression animal gets enraged and makes you do some thing totally out of control and animalistic, if you have been hungry for few months of dieting you would know what I am talking about. It does not only make you feel bad inside, you may end up obese and self destructing or in jail. That means your animal side jumps up in spikes, instead of staying calm inside, you are constantly being torn apart. Achieving inner peace is not in the extremes, otherwise Buddha would have found it by staying hungry.
I saw a movie about Buddha, I don’t remember the name of the movie but I “Quote” the piece as I saw.
“Buddha was meditating for a long time on the bank of the river, two guise were rowing by in the boat, one was rowing the other was playing the string instrument, he stops and tells the rower that if you tighten the string too much it will snap on you, but if you don’t it will not play the music. When Buddha heard that he stops the meditation to eat food”.
Inner peace is the wisdom of God and it’s our responsibility as an individual to find it for our selves, because it’s the key to the justice for both animal and human sides of us which can help us to accept being a human being. We all can have a desire to achieve divine powers, but the hardship sacrifice and extreme is only practiced by the few holy people, which are respected, so we all want to try but fail thus become torn.
When an ordinary individual tries to follow that extreme he/she end up in the spike land of extremes and inner turmoil. Losing inner peace is not God’s wisdom it is human intervention. Extremely strict rules will create chaos for the individual. Extremely religious but ordinary individual will become the victim of hypocrisy; because of he/she will lack the inner peace and some time act up animalistic ally like the priests. If they are put in the position of preachers the problems can happen.
Human societies are plagued with the crimes since beginning, the percentage of people would always be called criminal element, but it does not end there. Since its not black and white like most of us would like it to be we should never choose extreme, just look into our history everything is changing so rapidly that as societies our heads are spinning and fortunately our knowledge changes and we evolve not only as an individual but as a society as well so we are able to evolve regardless of all the hurdles of conservatism.
The roots of the social problems can be seen in the extremely opposing views of people. Conservatives verses liberals in all areas of life debating each other is fine, but when it comes to extreme it is a sign that the individual is going through inner crisis, other wise all religions preach tolerance, some how we get caught up in competition and neglect the importance of the personal inner peace, a peace full individual radiate peace to surroundings, thus beneficial for the society in the long run, and the peaceful people create better societies. Would social politics allow the individual strength, that is an other question? Common belief is that a group’s strength is dependent on the weaker individuals but I believe in the other way around.
Strings of power.
When we are able to use free will, we are given a whole bunch of strings; if you pull one it has the effect on some part of our life. We misunderstand this power and get the idea that we are the only one who is pulling the strings or running the show. We forget who handed us the strings and the ability to start with. Our power to pull and make everything happen is latterly depends on the oxygen we breath. Every breath is possible because of so many factors internally and externally. The more you think the more you believe and become humble, yet at the same time the pride of pulling the strings can go to our heads. The excitement of the ability to do something is addicting ask a kid who can explain what I am talking about, if not understood it has the power to create greed of this power.
Everything we do depends on several factors, so we need to understand more and look beyond the ability to pull the strings. Breathing of oxygen is the fundamental of life. Where does the oxygen come from, who controls it, if you become aware of this vulnerability then and only then you can understand the term when the time is up, its up it can happen by a natural disaster or inner disaster so logically we should lose our ego and become humble because this kind of thinking is in the foundation of all the belief systems. It compels us to believe in something, and that is the reason why there are so many religions and why the spirituality is consistent in all human societies but one thing I find is appalling that the ego is ruling all the belief systems, they all go to length to discredit each other yet the spirituality should rule and over power the politics of sense of belonging which gives the birth to ego. Religions should quit politics all together and stick with the spirituality. In spiritual world you just believe in God if thing don’t go your way you believe that there is a wisdom which is not understandable for human being whom is only able to tap into his/her potential by a few percentage with his/her present abilities.
If you want to go dig in the past, it should be for the benefits to the present and the future, for instance if you dig the piece of earth for the purpose to learn the patterns of natural disasters like floods, fires or earth quakes. That understanding can help to make predictions for the future, but if you are digging the past for the dirt to flame the conflicts and create more problems and unhappiness, it will not only be you alone everyone else will find that dirt as well because our ancestors did the best they could with their knowledge of their animal side.
Depending on the intensions we sometime use past to destroy the present individually and collectively but we can do that with our future as well by putting something in the computer to get predictions for the future and destroy our present with anxiety. Human societies have been changing, no one had predictions of the changes what our societies are going through, form gay marriages to physician assisted suicide to equal human rights regardless of the conservative ideologies.
It is not wise way to live; present should dominate the future and specially the past, because you can’t go back and change the past. Gambling every thing on the future is not a good bet, since we are mortal we make past from the present and we don’t know what tomorrow holds for us, so either way the most important and controllable time is the present moment.
Don’t bring a dead day from your past, into today, if you have the attitude of living in the past or future it has the potential to make today a dead day experience because it is going to add up to become a dead life. You end up making this life experience stuck in the worst life has to offer not the best.
Responsibility of the individual and the society.
If a starving person steals a loaf of bread, he/she is at fault along with the whole community, who failed its responsibilities to provide. Survival is a right over all the laws and orders of the community, including the religious beliefs. If you have a situation of ethics verses survival, simple logic, nature should win, because a belief system, law and order or ethics and morals are the things of the full stomach. When some one is preaching you all the control, their stomach is full. If one is hungry for few days all the human knowledge whether its social, religious or spiritual all goes to the drain, so we all have to evolve not only as an individual but as societies as well to assume our responsibilities.
If you yourself or a loved one needs medical help, your community should be able to help you in your vulnerable time, so you can help others when you are able. If you can’t get any help you should be allowed to take all the steps necessary. If the individual is required to follow the rules of community, community as a whole is responsible for the individual’s needs. Individual and community are dependent on each other. Each has a responsibility of each other. If the community’s rules make the individual inferior or invaluable, it can create imbalance and the scale will eventually turn against the community because the community is recognized by its individual.
Law and order is a joint responsibility for all people whom make the community one person at a time, so are the other things like social system, religion and spirituality. It may appear that I am talking like a socialist, I feel far from the man made systems but if I think about the values they are from the spirituality. If they are taken by the socialists so be it, but if you are religious and you work against these values you have it wrong because of the politics of your belonging group.
These values of helping the vulnerable are not socialist, they are spiritual, thus all religious people should logically follow the spiritual way of thinking yet most religious or church goers usually vote conservative or republicans whom are against these values. What, where and when did this happen, a religious person vote against the spiritual values it is time to think spirituality, not a politically corrupt religion because I believe no religion should stand against the universal health care, or poverty tax.
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