Let’s look at your sense of belonging critically, not only it shows up in your race, color, gender, nation, or religion, it shows up in your everyday politics and sports as well. Even though I am not interested in politics but whenever I talk about the sense of belonging politics shows up so its inevitable to avoid it. Our politics is in our everyday life, from personal relationships to friendships to work places we are faced with insecurity related politics so its everywhere. Our sports are big time money generators because we have teams for our communities and locals would want to win their team regardless how bad they play. Ever wonder why that is? it is all about the loyalties to the politics of our sense of belonging. If you are a CEO of your life you can see who played a better game, what political party’s policies are closer to or has genuine spiritual values. Since politics is all about power and control, it is highly subjective to different people but what puzzles me when religious people who claim to know spiritual values vote against them.
Unless we talk about real love, justice and spirituality we can’t have a system like equal human rights. Remember when we talk about organized religions we talk about politics regardless of their claims. Spirituality is and should be an essence of our any belief system but unfortunately whenever we get people together we can not keep our politics of sense of belonging out of our actions.
Prophets, sages and other wise people brought good knowledge to people but they could not keep politics of sense of belonging out of their spirituality, so yes religions are tainted with the politics of sense of belonging. No one can deny that because we would not have religious conflicts if they were pure spiritual paths. Even Buddhist monks could not stay away from politics so we are not immune to politics no matter what era we belong to, regardless of our evolution we are still killing each other over the religious differences.
Today our political parties are really big in promoting sense of belonging to our respected groups so plain and simple they are guilty of preaching prejudice and discrimination just like our ancestors did with our religions. Just look at the American politics. Even though these days racism is looked down but it is still there so our prejudice and discrimination is ingrained so deeply in us that we just can’t shake it out of our daily lives. Equal human rights are present but still there is a segment of people in every group who want their group to rule the world. Ever wonder why prejudice and discrimination is still tolerated? Its because our sense of belonging to our groups is still preached over and above the need for belonging to humanity as a whole.
Lets see how our political parties just can’t overcome prejudice and discrimination related agendas. They claim that opposing parties can’t run the governing business yet all parties have their short comings, from using politics to keep other parties agendas going when they come in power just because its popular in the population. They don’t want to change things even they are against their manifestos. Conservatives are against the taxes yet they brought in GST, liberals were against it yet they kept it going even they came into power.
Financial failures is connected to all sides yet they still claim to be right in their policies. Our welfare system, health care and old age security are the system no party wants to mess with just because a very high number of people in population want them. Abortion is an other issue conservatives should be against it because they always have been but they don’t want to talk about. Why?
If NDP talks about giving tax break to businesses and conservatives don’t want to talk about abortion, it is not because they don’t want to follow their agendas but they just want to get in power so yes its all pure politics they have no spiritual principles or values to run a community. Personally I believe if a community can’t take care of its sick its sick itself.
If you let it and go a little further you will end up in a dog eat dog philosophy. If someone dies in community because they could not help themselves it is not only a bad socialism it is a spiritual bankruptcy as well so our political parties have to bring some spirituality in their agendas and public should look at taxes as their spiritual contribution and reciprocation to God instead of burdens. It is common in political parties to claim that they will be running the government like a business and some people believe that is the right way to run the country. No No and No it is not a business unless you think it is a political business. Personal business is to make profit running a government is to help people in the community, if you don’t people can leave where they are helped in difficult times and valued when they contribute.
Why do you think people from all over the world flock to the western nations? Not only we have better governing system with human rights we have more value for the individual as well so it is the individual who wants to stay and belong to the nation where they are valued not discriminated. No mater how eastern politicians or religious politicians preach how western societies are Godless and spiritually bankrupt. One just has to see the refugee flow towards west to know the truth. If nations have individual’s value there is spirituality. If a religious society has no individual value it is spiritually bankrupt period. If every religion preaches that they are spiritually superior than others spirituality takes a hike from that belief system. Looking at the prayers Islam says everyone is equal yet politically preaches it is superior to all other religions so this contradictory practice has been preached not because of spirituality but because of politics of sense of belonging.
Where there is prejudice and discrimination it is not only the individual is not loyal to each other it is down right an unhealthy community as well so preaching in favor of prejudice and discrimination is robbing the community from the helping hands or tax payers.
If it is at home, in community and in our belief systems how are we going to gain opposing results. Personally I believe spirituality has no room for political agendas so if a religion becomes a political party or a political party hides behind and uses religion it is spiritually wrong because politically you have to lie and you would have hidden agendas so if you believe you want to keep your belief system as nothing but the truth, keep your religious beliefs pure of politics. If you talk politics it may be a good talking point but not thinking long term. It is like a hundred feelers can sink the ship but one thinker can save it, you can’t mess with a pure individual’s spirituality. If you use individual’s emotional vulnerabilities, responsibilities land on the not only the individual’s shoulders you are just as guilty as the individual who commits spiritual crimes in the name of religious extreme.
First of all we need to ask why do we vote for our particular political parties why are we loyal or stanch supporter even if they run down the finances. Your personal political belonging shows how much influence your sense of belonging has on your individual behaviors.
I live in Canada where we have three prominent national political parties, but question is not exclusive to Canadians its to all individuals of the world. Ask yourself why do you vote for your political party regardless of their failure to run the country successfully in past? Why not the other? Have you looked at the present day conveniences you enjoy, who came up with those ideas? For instance if you are a stanch conservative but use health care benefits or welfare system you got to know these things are part of socialism and came from opposing parties. If you look at the political parties success rate in governing the finance. What system work best? Did conservative government do better or Liberals did, always look at the past history. There is a vast difference in the ways of governing in conservative, liberal or NDP. Canada has gone and still goes back and forth changing hands to run the country yet nation is still standing. When you here from the parties they preach that the opposing group has been a total failure so it is you who should be able to see its the politics and nothing but so they have to follow putting each other down as policy to win your loyalties.
As an honest individual we should ask ourselves, why don’t we vote for the opposing political parties? Ideology differences or plain and simple politics of sense of belonging to our respected groups?. Asking helps to figure out why? If your family is conservative and you are liberal minded but you still vote for conservatives just because you want to vote with your family and friends out of loyalties. That is pure politics of sense of belonging I am talking about and as a CEO its our duty to look at our actions critically and choose spiritual reasons to reciprocate instead of voting for dog eat dog philosophy.
If you are a religious person, always ask why your family votes for conservative not NDP? After all religious values are to help others like universal health care and welfare system unless your religious values are different than the spiritual values, this is the time to ask why?. Where is the disconnection in politics of religion and spiritual values.
Its same thing in United States because most religious people vote republicans yet spirituality calls for helping the needy. Dog eat dog philosophy is condoned if you are against giving helping hand to the needy. Why would a religious individual vote for conservative or republicans? If spirituality calls against dog eat dog philosophy?. If you start to look for the answers look within not out side because out side your politics of sense of belonging rules but what goes on inside is all spiritual unless you are an insecure soul who is in need of spiritual health.
An honest individual is like fried onion just to the point when its transparent, they can see clearly what is inside of themselves but unfortunately most of us has the potential to go the opposite side with the heat of life. We get burned and lose our transparency even to our own selves and yes that is to the point that we even can’t see what is inside of us. Politics of our sense of belonging is too powerful for us to even question the authority of our belonging groups. We are unable to see what we are made of, we can’t even see or relate to our spiritual nature or God within. Yet we are the one blessed with the free will as an individual.
We spouse to be transparent to ourselves but we are tainted with the colorful politics of our belonging groups. Interestingly as an individual we can’t do the justice nor we can use God given free will to tread through our lives the way we should. Its clear that we are brain washed with the politics of our sense of belonging, everything is like an animal behavior. Our actions are reactions of our personal insecurities yet as mortals we have no real security. Political parties always take advantage of our spiritual weaknesses. We are unable to use our personal sense of justice or even free will because we are compelled from within. Our personal insecurities make us seek to fit in, try to impress or have strong desire to be admired by our belonging groups so this is what I call a personal political reason of our actions.
Personal sense of justice is universal not exclusive to some people, we all each and every single one of us can use it. Any gender, color, nation or religion collectively can use it as well but our politics of sense of belonging hasn’t been allowing us to be free enough to use it. If you are unable to use your free will, personal sense of justice and compassion its a spiritual deficiency regardless of your reasoning that politics of sense of belonging is too strong to stand against. This is a new era we have evolved into, we have equal human rights blooming, we have problems they cross our borders we have solutions they have to cross the boundaries of the politics of our sense of belonging to our groups.
Usually people from all walks of life behave as their parents or society as they have been trained. Their loyalties are to their belonging groups, anyone thinking out side of that box is thought as a traitor but these days equal human rights are becoming so popular that it is becoming part of our justice systems all over the world. There is not white, black, yellow, brown, red or gender related justice, it is finally become blind justice as equal human rights require it to be.
If you look at the other creatures and observe their behaviors it is quit interesting. A squirrel would save nuts, cats and dogs bury their food but most other creatures are not able to think and plan for later like us. Our life plan is to secure future yet for being a mortal there is no security for us. Looking at it logically, when our time is up it is up so our life plan should be according to that. It is like the boat you are in, it is designed to take you down so enjoying, being fair and reciprocating while you are afloat makes all the differences how you live in a mortal skin, no ifs or buts or exceptions about it.
If a political party influences you to think the way they want you to and you comply without giving a thought to your spiritual values you are contributing into their political agendas but robbing yourself of deep happiness and contentment. If their political agenda is against the spiritual values, responsibility lands on your shoulders because you are the one who should be picking and choosing your actions or in this political time voting. As an adult if you use your free will to choose, you become responsible for your actions and that is why you have your personal sense of justice. Which tells you what is the most fundamental rule of spirituality. “Don’t do to anyone what you don’t like done to yourself or your loved ones”.
If you learn to think about your mortal, vulnerable and insecure skin you will choose to vote for the party with the spiritual values and equal justice to all blindly. Unfortunately spirituality has no room for politics so you are hard pressed not to go for dog eat dog philosophy. These days with corona virus all religious people may be working to help the people in need. What? Does it take a global pandemic to get people cross the lines of their religious differences to work together. First of all they should take advantage of this opportunity to stop killing each other over the differences. I can just imagine if they had been and were working together where would humanity be today?
God is in all of us with perfectly functioning body and brain, equal in every function, hands, backs and shoulder to make God physically working. What you choose to think about your living years individually make all the world go around. We made all the progress and evolve to this level not by following religious rules but literally breaking them. Most of the trail blazers strayed from their taught belief systems. Most scientists do not consider themselves as religious people but their contributions can’t be denied. What is the reason why these educated souls were able to help humanity without believing in religious rules. It has nothing to do with comparing and putting each other down with our abilities and disabilities but everything to do with how the individual feels spiritually from within.
If you have the need to be better than others, it may have different reasons for people but its easy to spot the common denominator and yes it is deeply ingrained inferiority complex which is encouraged, politically promoted and benefited by the belonging groups. They have twisted and replaced it with false yet political self-esteem by making individual feel higher self-esteem just to belong to certain group. If you are Christian, Muslim or Jewish or belong to any other religion or Nation you are better than the people who belong to opposing groups, if you believe in that you will believe that even God is ours not theirs that makes even God being prejudiced an discriminatory. If you are a CEO of your life you can see it all through this strategy if you are not you will feel good and secure to be part of that group. It just does not make any sense, how one can be better than others just by belonging to a gang of people, color of the skin, gender, community, nation or religion? I believe its a falls self-esteem and eventually blows up on individual’s face. For instance if a Mullah, Priest or Rabbi says God will help you if you pray, fast or follow certain rituals of the belonging religion. When God does not show up and help, individual goes through some internal turmoil which leads to spiritual deficiencies. That lack of trust is not because of God its because of the politics of sense of belonging and individuals loyalties to believe your religious leader.
Can you be special enough to be spared by the corona virus if you belong to certain group of people or believe in God any differently. Ask your logical self, a scientist or a doctor who is going through this pandemic right now. I by no mean preach against religious beliefs I believe in spirituality of every belief system so come out and smell the scientific smell of political roses.
Understand yourself, your nature, your politics of sense of belonging and the reasons of your loyalties to your belonging groups. Is your personal self-esteem related to deeply ingrained inferiority complexes or spiritual deficiencies. If your self-esteem is based on your belonging to certain group come out of it and look at your human and mortal yet spiritual nature. Take responsibilities, reciprocate and use your free will and personal sense of justice. If you would not want anyone to give you corona virus why would be willing to do that? Always remember your number one spiritual rule and I repeat ” Don’t do to others what you don’t like done to you or your loved ones”.
Desire to fit in, impress or extreme need to be admired can be a driving force in our individual behaviors, and it is all coming from seeking the approval of belonging groups, so it is related with the politics of sense of belonging. Understanding political influences, no I am not talking about the politics of our parties, I am talking about the politics of sense of belonging in general, it could be to race, gender, gang, sport team, community, nation and religion.
Understanding our political influences and our mortal nature simultaneously can bring things in perspectives, that is if you want to look at your present and temporary time or mortal life in a clearer picture. You ask yourself, is it worth while for you to discriminate against others or bring and use prejudice in your mortal life? If the answer comes out yes, try removing your installed knowledge, which you have accumulated from your belonging group as you became adult. Like political view, religious superiority, or nationalism etc. If the answer still comes out that you are still a discriminatory and a prejudiced individual. Try unmasking your deeply ingrained insecurities related fears stemming from your personal inferiority complexes.
“If religion has you believed God and Devil are above you, remember you are the third equation nothing becomes physical unless you add your hands backs and shoulders to it. God is good and Devil is bad after you have added your help to them so always remember the reasons behind your possession of free will and personal sense of justice”.
These days we are able to scientifically connect the causes of natural disasters and environment, we can predict weather to save lives, we are starting to realize that we can change river flows and we are able to see what is causing environment changes. Not too long ago everything we were accepting everything as God’s work today we are able to figure out the causes and effects. How far you want to dig into human potential individually or personally, it is your call. What you believe is your personal choice but don’t deny the scientific facts and especially if you can do something don’t stop because God has put you in the position where you can fix the problems yourself. Praying and fasting is one thing but that all should be done after you have exhausted all your efforts. Would that mean you are not following God’s will? No no and no again, we are an evolving entity by God that is why no religion or any other system of governing could stop human progress or evolution.
If you act under the influences of politics of sense of belonging which is making you prejudiced and discriminatory being, its time to shed some garbage out of your soul and join equal rights based humanity as a whole.
Carrying burdens of prejudice and discrimination on your soul as a mortal being has a big price to pay. Not only you can be unhappy and discontent by losing status quo, it has the potential to have you commit spiritual crimes as well to put more burden on your soul. As a mortal being its not a good place to be. Ask a soldier with the PTSD how hard it is to deal with the burdens of the soul.
One of the simple help comes from becoming a chief executive officer of your life. Being a CEO you take responsibility and own your actions and decisions so not only you don’t blame others you don’t hide behind God and Devil as well. Being hypocrite is very common in politically savvy people but truth related burdens of soul are realities as well so health of all kind can be in jeopardy.
If harms are done to you by your education related behaviors in more ways than one, in the end of the day God can easily say that is the reason why human beings have been blessed with the free will and personal sense of justice. Devil can say that you choose to act and people you acted against can look at you and treat you with counter prejudice and discrimination as well so where do you stand as a mortal individual? How much time you have got left in your life to be unhappy and discontent. This is a serious question should be asked by us to our selves.
As a decently decorated being with human jewelry we all can accept equal human rights but as a brainwashed and unable to think beyond the politics of sense of belonging we all have potential to be racist, beget, sexist, nationalist and religious fanatics. Politics of your belonging groups is the one influenced you to be what you are or the way you are, they are not going to be willing to undo what they have always believed in. As an individual only can, but you have to become a CEO of your life to understand what is a good nurturing food and what is poison for your soul.
Ask yourself and look into your past critically, if things have stayed exactly the same as long as you can remember. If things change all the time, it is not a question about good and bad, it is all about responding to changing circumstances. Looking at your responses you can discover not only your personality traits, you can find your inferiority complexes and self-esteem related issues as well. If you don’t like they way you have been responding, don’t you want to do something about it. Remember time is running out for you, your boat is going to sink so do something to be spiritually content before that. Best and the first thing for you is to acknowledge that you don’t like your responses, second most important thing is what are you going to do about it, so you don’t keep doing things the same way as you have been taught. Third most important thing is to see the hard fact of life which you eventually will have to face is your mortality.
If you can deal with these three things honestly everything else will fall in place. For instance you become a CEO of your life who is able to create a general balance to achieve the real goals of mortal living. Yes that is happiness and contentment if someone says otherwise, you have to remember your mortality as an individual. The big question comes here is whether to live this life for after life? As most religions preach to us. That makes me question whether life after life is more important for God and the individual or its all politics of the belonging groups to benefit from the individual’s sacrifices. The answer I have is that since God’s work is done by the living breathing human beings right here in living years and we as human beings make spirituality become alive with our physical actions. First of all as a soul we can’t perform anything or at least that is only the logical explanation if you want any thing to happen physically you will have to have physical action. There is a big difference if we are alive or dead so we are not really working physically if we are dead and most spiritual actions need physicality to be effective. Second God’s world does not need spirits it needs physicality related actions so God’s work continues to benefit the living breathing people of God. To me every child born with physical hands, backs and shoulders is a miracle of God to continue God as a physical entity. Otherwise God and Devil both are impotent entities.
My philosophy shows up as basic triangles so one of them which is the foundation of this whole blog is human being, God and Devil and an other one is love triangle passionate love, instinctive love and universal love. There is a lot more to learn but fundamentals for a mortal life are well explained and we need to understand these two because these two play a huge role in ones happiness and contentment. Feelings of loving and being loved is so powerful that one’s happiness and contentment depends on this balance so sacrificing even family love over the universal love can be a half knowledge so being a CEO becomes a must. We just can’t be like a worker bee who’s job is to nurture the queen we are above all that not only genetically we are a spiritual entity as well.
For a mortal being understanding mortality is a must because being a mortal we have to know exactly what is happening. Our knowledge of belonging groups have been tainted with not only politics of sense of belonging in favor of our groups, it is based on carrot and stick philosophy. For the human individual carrot and stick philosophy is wrong because we are not just the animal we are a spiritual creature who has the ability to self regulate.
Lets look at it logically if we spend our lives with the fear of hell and in the greed of heaven who benefits from it? Is it belonging group or the individual? If group benefits from the individual sacrifice its preached as a honorable and noble but is it fair? If it is from God it can’t be unfair so carrot and stick philosophy is not related to God or spirituality. If you want to connect God to unfairness it is your prerogative but what I believe in no unfair God. Sure this politics is to train a savage beast into human being but we are not an animal first we a spiritual being first. Since we have to perform physically to convert spirituality into physicality we have to have physical bodies like other creatures. Question is should the human individual be treated as a physical creature exclusively? To me it is a game we all play so it is not one or the other its all about the balance. Since we bring all spiritual action into physicality we are rewarded with our physical needs met regardless of our control on the oxygen and well being of the body so reciprocation is a duty not a chore. If you were to be controlled by God believe me no one could harm or kill anyone. Since we are able to do that it is our duty to understand all the reasons why do we do it. Why God would allow the human individual to have free will? Why God would allow human individual to commit spiritual crimes? Well ask yourself these questions before acting on the political orders of your nations or religions.
If you are reciprocating with God that is the ultimate self-esteem booster and it is not a falls self-esteem either because it makes you a third equation, so how can you look down at yourself if you are a helping hand for God almighty. As a human individual who is alive and functioning bringing spiritual thoughts into physical actions does not need to fear God and hell, nor should have to worry about not going to heaven after death.
In spirituality fear and greed don’t have place because they both are related with the insecurities of the individual and interestingly enough belonging groups take advantage of it especially organized religions by treating a human being as an animal. Not only it is disrespecting the individual it is disrespecting God as well because they both are used for political purposes. If you feel that you are being used politically by your belonging groups. You are victim of yourself, remember as a CEO other people have a place in your life but they don’t have a say. You are the CEO who calls the shots. If you let it happen you are hiding behind God and Devil because you are taught not to take responsibilities of your actions that is a sign of spirituality related lacks of life.
Most religions or religious education actually preaches the individual to have hope and trust so the quality can be added to a mortal life but since they have given into their politics of belonging they believe in ownership of God or God on their side but not for the opposing side. That automatically promotes prejudice and discrimination against others and makes even God as a prejudicial and discriminatory entity.
This kind of politics has the individuals robbing themselves of spirituality out of their mortal lives so we are always drawn towards our belonging groups. I can bet there is no way of counting the death tole of religious differences or extreme related wars and to me it is related to spiritual bankruptcy. Unfortunately politics of sense of belonging has been, is and will be for a long time rule our religious beliefs unless an individual becomes spiritually aware and crosses the lines of prejudice and discrimination to join the new paradigm of equal human rights.
Some of our group politics of governing systems or our political parties preach individual strength, responsibility and not to trust or even believe in God. Our religious politicians preach to be subservient, weak, vulnerable, insignificant and self defeating sinner. What an individual can do in these powerful and conflicting messages.
Simple and straight forward truth, become a CEO of your life. Put everything in its place don’t let any entity or belief system brain wash you so you can be used for their agendas. Learn to live as a spiritually mortal being who is as important to God as anyone else can be. Focus on reciprocation to God and self well being in all areas of life so there is nothing left to fear or having the need of greed.
Lets look at the contradictions of our governing systems, they say all the responsibilities land on the individual’s shoulders. If you are weak, tough luck deal with your problems so that system robs individual’s of hope, trust even optimism in humanity. When this becomes overwhelming, it back fires on the governing party. Anxiety, depression and hopelessness sends people to get help from the government that is exactly the opposite results of the policies implemented for.
Religions on the other hand preach that God and Devil are doing everything, all you have to do is to believe in and join in yet blindly. If a leaf can’t move without the will of God how can a whole human being can do anything and everything by themselves. If you believe that you will have to logically believe that all your problems are coming from God as well. To boot if a mullah and priest are saying pray and fast to get what you want in life. If after all the efforts God does not show up what happens to the individual’s faith in God. Worse than that is if everything was given just by asking who would want to work hard or what would be the value of the hard work. If you don’t get after all the asking, worshiping, praying and fasting. Mullah and priest can say its not God it must be you who is not believing or praying from heart or hard enough. That is how the individual gets robbed by the vary people who were spouse to provide hope, trust and spiritual well being.
In all this political hoopla where do you stand as an individual? If you don’t trust yourself, government, mullah or priest your religion and even God what is your status to you from within. Seek spirituality related self importance. You will find not only the key to your real self-esteem but hope, trust and optimism as well and interestingly you can over come your prejudicial and discriminatory thoughts as well.