As human beings we are not just an ordinary animals, our two sides make us a unique entity who is holding a Godly atom of autonomy. The proof of our spiritual side is clearly evident in our everyday life as a human individual. Our societies have justice systems not only collectively we individually have our own spiritual values related personal sense of justice. Logical and spiritual side does not permit us to do the injustice against the innocents because universally we don’t like to be punished if we have not committed a crime.
If you are born into any particular race, gender, nation, religion or even a group of certain people logically you can’t be punished for that because you absolutely have no control or a say on that process, so you can’t be responsible for your birth as whatever color or gender you are born as. We have been evolving from our cultures of divisions, even some of our religious people say you are born sinner, making even God spiritually wrong because punishing someone who is innocent is wrong in all courts. Our political bias, prejudice, discrimination and even related actions against each other all land into the vicinity of spiritual crimes committed by our nations and religions openly yet with pride.
World of divisions may not think so but any punishment or sufferings of the individual in the name of political sense of belonging has nothing to do with spirituality and God.
Since God did Godly job by providing and blessing us with our individual atom of autonomy and personal sense of justice that means all the responsibilities of our actions land on our individual shoulders.
It would be different if we were in the class of creatures like bees and warrior ants but fortunately we are human beings and are not genetically programed and controlled. Yet interestingly most of us don’t realize that even if it feels right to follow our belonging groups it is not for an evolved human being to act in such manors.
Bottom line is that as a creature we may look different but spiritually we have no differences. We all have same make up, so genetically we are compatible and our needs, like oxygen, water and food and love are the same, We live get old sick and die the same way. We get hurt from same things and have same kind of pain. From birth to death our journey is same, our differences are related to our installed knowledge, which promotes life is exclusively physical. Sure that is important for all other creatures but as human beings we have our needs of spiritual side. Without meeting them a human life is unfulfilled. Since animal side related living is common our differences are related to our animal side. We fight and kill each other to meet the needs of physicality of our mortal existence. For instance resources, housing and easier life provide us physical comforts and fulfillment. If we are an ordinary creature we would only think for ourselves exclusively but we carry a very powerful spiritual side or I should call it our atom of autonomy within. Which not only allows us to think and act individually but respect our spiritual side equally to physical side. By doing that we learn to reciprocate with God directly and individually in return for the help of oxygen and a physically functioning body. Our reciprocation gives us spiritual comfort and fulfillment. By living a life of an animal exclusively we don’t fulfill our spiritual needs and that can have a potential to rip us apart from within.
Even if the whole world would have desired to be in your shoes, you personally can feel your life is not fulfilling. You may suffer with the disorders your doctor may not understand but you feel your pain that can’t be explained. Regardless of all the blessings, your life is not lived as it could have been or can be if you are spiritually fulfilled. As an individual it is a big loss because of our mortal nature, but as a community we can suffer as well. Not only because of a whole lot of unhappy and discontent individuals but with our ongoing conflicts and wars related love loss.
With today’s weaponry things things can go very wrong any minute even humanity keeps calling and pointing towards our collective problems. From global warming related weather extremes and fires to viral infectious diseases like Corona virus all are our collective problems need collective attention, acceptance and solutions. Just look at global warming related issues, can Donald Trump build walls high enough to prevent firs and rising oceans related problems. Today even if you come up with a vaccination for Corona virus you still will have to deal with global efforts to be safe. No nation can be safe until everyone in the world is Corona virus free.
Politics of our sense of belonging is our old style way of living yet new problems required new and collective solutions. Our groups would try to find solutions but would fall under the politics of sense of belonging to our groups which can lead to vaccination nationalism yet by looking at the start and the spread of the problem it openly says that there is no way any race, gender, nation or religion would be saved exclusively until humanity can understand today’s problems are not groups related. Our group ism is playing in the hands of old and damaging to humanity policies of groups.
It is not even about compassion and spirituality, it is simply about the survival of humanity. If we don’t work together consequences are going to push us to find a new planet to live and unfortunately we are not ready for that yet. So what can you learn from these signals humanity, God and every single one of our atom of autonomy is sending? Need for the success of global equal human rights and riots against racism, inequality, prejudice and discrimination should be considered pathetic in today’s humanity but somehow we still are entangled in our past and ancestral related divisive knowledge. There should be an open opposition by the moderates against universal love loss by the religious extremists. Racism is not just in certain people it is in the individual themselves so the solutions would be found in the individual. If you look at it as a group problem you will only put a band aid on an infected wound which has not, is not working or will not work. Politics of sense of belonging is deeply related to the individual insecurities so it has to change from within the individual to learn to belong to humanity instead of a group of people.
If you are always in favor of your group politics whether it is right or wrong, you literally have become prejudiced and discriminatory against the people who are logically innocent because they happened to be born in the opposing groups. As I mentioned earlier there is no control or choice in being born so getting punished for it is non spiritual and totally political. If even our monks are not immune to this politics, how can an ordinary individual fight this political infection to their spirituality.
Regardless of what your belonging group preaches or what you feel or think is right, in the end of the day as a grown up adult human being you are the one who is responsible for your individual actions. If you are taught to live life exclusively as an animal or as a spirit exclusively it is your taught knowledge. Your actual responsibility is to create balance between your two sides you are blessed by God. If you go to extreme and live like an animal and fulfill yourself as a physical entity, you may end up depriving yourself spiritually or the other way around. Either way you are going to have your consequences. If you are fulfilled physically and still feel there is something missing or you are suffering from dissatisfaction and unfulfilled life you need to explore spirituality as a medicine and no I am not talking about political religions. Remember we are not designed to be angels so spirituality exclusively is not for humans, I am not preaching living spiritually exclusively because I believe as humans we need to live and nurture both sides equally religions or not it is our responsibility to live a decently balanced life. You come into life as an individual with spiritual and physical sides and choosing one is an extreme for a mortal being. As long as you reciprocate and serve the purpose of your life your enjoyment of your life is your prerogative. Religions or not being spiritual is our personal responsibility because it fulfills us and makes our life meaningful. Polarities are wrong for human individuals regardless of what you have been taught. Enjoying life physically is our right as long as we turn spirituality into physicality. Bounties of physical life are essential for a mortal being regardless of what our religions say.
Just look at socialism and our religions how similar they are and to me there is one thing they both have it wrong and that is spiritual justice. According to their politics they have mass over the individual and both can end up in a situation where they become unjust against the individual. I believe in equal and spiritual justice whether it is between individual and individual or between individual or mass. Real and right thing is spirituality where equal justice is for everyone and yes even if it is between individual and ruling authority. Most religions choose politics over spirituality because it is hard to stay in the spiritual zone if you want to control the population politically.
Whenever I talk about the dead dog I am talking about the cause of our problems. If you have been following my blog by now you are aware of my terms I use frequently and dead dog is one of them, if you are new I will write it for you again. So the story is that.
There once was a community, they dug a well for the water and lived around it. One day a dog fell in the well and died. When water started to stink everyone got worried, so they gathered up and one of them went down in the well to investigate. He found a dead dog and yelled from the well, that there is a dead dog in here. People looked at the mayor with questioning eyes. He said, take about fifty barrels of water out and then start using it, but make sure you take the dead dog out first.
Today we have created a world which keeps on living without bothering about and taking the dead dog out. From medicine to social systems, to our religions everyone is looking for a band aid solutions to buy time. If you have a headache, you take an aspirin regardless of the cause of your headache because of that our problems persist and evolve into our major issues of life. From health problems to our local social issues to international conflicts to personal and spiritual deficiencies are not looked at as serious problems. Since everyone is running in life as if it is never going to end we seem to get in trouble as we start to see our end in sight. We have built an attitude to sweep everything under the rug and keep going. There is nothing wrong with it, but the problems don’t go away on their own. We as a humanity has to work towards removing the dead dogs of our personal and communal wells.
I am a self-employed and usually business people go against taxes but personally, I believe the solutions for the poverty is not in the charities sure they help, but there should be a poverty tax in all over the world so the help never dries up. Since us as an individual can be insecure and at times, we don’t give anything to charities. That can make the donations, not only go up and down they can completely dry up that leaves a black mark on the face of the humanity when someone dies of hunger. We all should have a collective awareness of collective dead dogs of humanity.
Religions do preach to help the poor, but preach the religion itself shamelessly so it becomes a help with the political strings attached.
Any human social system is a political system. When people get together with their fiver (read five bucks) the politics starts, whether we like it or not. Since all religions are group of people, the politics can’t be avoided unless it is strictly about the spirituality. Religions can not claim that they stay away from the politics because of the nature of the business otherwise to me they would not have any history of religious wars.
No matter how much I believe in the spiritual living, as human being we just can’t live on the spirituality exclusively. We have to have our political systems to keep our governing systems going and yes I don’t believe in religions getting into our political arenas because I believe religious beliefs belong to spirituality.
We are in the process of continuous evolution and can’t put caps over or put a freeze on our evolving knowledge in the name of our religious beliefs. If you are a religious person you would like to vote for like minded people you can do so but if you mix your politics with spirituality you are the one who is at loss because they don’t mix. Politics is twisting our lies and truths and spirituality is like justice system which ideally should believe in nothing but the truth. Our political systems should be separated from our religious beliefs because number one not everyone believes in the same thing number two they belong in a zone where you will have to believe in something that can’t be proven without a doubt. As an evolving humanity we just can’t claim that we can not change our constitutions or religious rules because they came from our fore fathers or God. Evolving and changing times should dictate our changes to adopt and evolve further.
We need our political systems to run our social affairs according to the needs of time we are born in, but regardless of the time we belong to, if a political system is designed to exclusively cater a particular group of people it lacks spirituality and is unjust. Remember spiritual fulfillment is needed to create peace, whether it is an inner peace for the individual or external peace within the society or humanity in general.
We have been trying to get there by our group politics without the spiritual justice of equal human rights, so the compassion, forgiveness, sacrifice and love have not been part of our governing systems. That is why regardless of trying our constitutions and religions failed to find peace for humanity.
Today we have United nation but with the veto powers given to a few nations, Geneva Convention commission has been and is against the human rights violations, but can’t do anything physically against the violations just because humanity is divided in two hundred pieces. There are several hot spots where people are oppressed and control by force meaning there are no equal human rights and humanity just can’t help the needy and it is all because of politics of sense of belonging to our groups. Democratic process with political parties is not an ideal thing either but still it is the best thing of the present day politics. Politically elected members of parliament are sitting on the back benches and they can’t stand against their own party manifestos if needed. They follow and respect the rules of their political party over their personal ethics or the interest of their constituents whom they represent.
Democracy, better than what we have had for thousands of years and for sure better than the kings and dictators but is far from perfect.
The reason behind all that is our all powerful human phenomenon, yes, the good old politics of sense of belonging to our groups. Our religions say they are the cousins of God and they will take you to heaven if you join them and everyone else is going to hell just because of their not belonging to a particular group of people as if God is an idiot like an emotional human being.
A mullah could be alive because of the insulin, but curses the western knowledge shamelessly. We as an individual should have the personal ethical protocol and the system to believe where we credit where it is due. Our sense of belonging should be countered and balanced by our personal sense of freedom. Human being is blessed with the free will for a reason, God gave us the responsibilities to run God’s affairs with free will. If we were like angels we would be genetically programed but we are not, so we have to get the job done our own spiritual ways.
Humanity is a jambalaya of the genes, you could be white and against all the other skin colors but your ancestry could tell you that you have black within you. You could be a Muslim with the genes from Ganges Khan or you could be an American Muslim fighting against the Muslims all over the world.
By now you should be able to see that it is not the color, gender size, race, nation or the religion what makes you a human being? Your genetics can tell you a different story, and we all have the same genes. If you maybe are different from the color, race, gender, nation or the religion but genetics and spirituality can bring you to the humanity as a whole. Just ask anyone who has received an organ from a match but form different race, gender, nation or religion but you should start with yourself to remove the dead dog of the sense of belonging to your particular group.
What happens if the climate changes? Oceans rises to sink the land of certain part of the earth, it is happening as I am writing. Would the countries on the higher lands accommodate all the displaced people or protect their borders and let them suffer even if it is against our spiritual nature.
Face of the world has been changing for a long time, it has been, is and will be chaotic for us if we can’t or don’t change our political ways and belong to the humanity as a whole instead of the group mentality.
You can’t practically live together if your legends are with your respected clan, race, nation or a religion. Optimistically thinking, if we can live in the western countries as melting pot societies, we can do that at a larger scale as well. We just have to evolve to the next level of our evolutionary scale and that requires us to cross the lines of the sense of belonging to a group.
All circumstances are pointing towards the necessity of the evolution to the next level where we think individually to be part of humanity as a whole.
From internet to global warming, gender liberation, sexual freedom to space station to equal human rights are all signs of the changes we all have to adopt without a choice. If we don’t change with the changes, we are going to end up facing the predictions of the holy books but with our own choice.
If you spend all your resources fighting each other, how and what are you going to do to manage the real problems looming in the near future, where every fiver or atom of autonomy is going to count.
We rob each other of that fiver by killing the individual belonging to the opposing groups, but the net loss is to the humanity which keeps us behind and slows us down to reach our potential. We end up creating sufferings for large part of population and give all the wealth to few beyond their needs.
Imagine if the whole humanity chips in with their fivers to build the bridges. I wholeheartedly believe we can protect ourselves from the global warming because we have survived the ice age. Today our troubles are related to our choices we make so we can change the course of events. We can conquer the poverty and hunger as well as we can stop killing each other in the name of our nations and religions but our politics of sense of belonging always comes in the way as the cause or a dead dog.
Just look at our prejudice it does not mean we hate or disliking the other groups, simply it is connected to our personal and individual thinking or group preaching that we are individually better than the others just because of belonging to our group. Your education says that your ancestors were right and your belonging group would always be right.
If you are taught that your family and you are better than others, it’s time to change that way of thinking, because today we have equal human rights. Remember you are born as a human so you belong to humanity as a whole. Being black, white, brown, yellow, red, male, female, homo straight, Pakistani, Arab, American, Canadian European, Russian, Muslim, Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu, Sikh, you believe in God, or not, you pray more or all the time or don’t pray at all but give and donate to feed the hungry. If you belong to any denomination of any religion, just remember every human individual belongs under the umbrella of one humanity. Being better, depends o your compassionate character, sacrifice, forgiveness and love of the humanity, not by simply belonging to a certain group or participating in certain activity.
Certain medical discoveries have been helping to save human lives literally by the millions, personally I believe every human life saved helps God because God’s work is done by the living breathing human beings, so I give credit where it deserves regardless of the belonging group. How many people use insulin to stay alive, most of the users would not even know the inventor, who discovered something which keeps them alive but they probably will be willing to kill for their religious leaders and put the inventors of the life saving drugs down.
We should be able to overcome our differences with accepting the equal human rights and spiritual rule of don’t do to anyone what you don’t like done to you and your loved ones. Main cause of our social problems including our wars, is our prejudice and discriminatory policies of groups. Since everything starts first in the house hold of an individual, then community, nations and religions preach the same way of thinking we need to look at it critically.
Its time to cross those boundary lines our ancestors could not cross. Our wars start with the individual and they can end with the individual, because its the individual who makes a first choice to join in the killing regardless of the reason. At that moment when you make a choice you have the responsibility to judge the belonging group’s choice and better yet assess your self first why would you be willing to kill the innocents for your belonging group. If the answer is yes you may need to create some inner peace by following spirituality instead of religion. Before you make the decision to follow the politics of belonging group you need to know that in the end of the day you are the one who is responsible for your good or bad actions. Politics is not a human excuse, it is the limitation created by your personal insecurities. As a CEO of your life you are the one who should take charge and decide before acting as an extension of a group of people, nation or an ideology. Personally I believe politics of our sense of belonging is the ancient dead dog of our social ills. Our education of prejudice and discrimination has been, is and will be making us kill each other for unforeseeable future. Until we individually evolve and become a CEO of your lives we would still be looking at ourselves as the extension of a group of people not as a main part of the bigger picture. Now the question is, do you even believe in being a CEO of your life?.
Remember humanity itself is a victim of our ancestral us and them philosophy and sooner or later we all would have to evolve from this curse, so sooner the better. Today we are learning that racism, gender bias, prejudice and discrimination are the plagues we have inherited from our past and so far the best remedy humanity has come up with is the popularity of equal human rights. These rights don’t only right our wrongs, they actually are the anti dotes of our infections of wrongs. This us and them philosophy is the foundational problem until we correct it as an individual one person at a time. We would be suffering not only individually but collectively as well until we collectively convince the individual that they are more than just the extension of an ideology. That they are the CEO and have more responsibilities to manifest changes than they have been taught. Being a CEO one can distinguish politics of sense of belonging and understand personal and individual standing in the larger scheme of life. If you look at it critically even our dictators are victims of out of control politics of sense of belonging. They feel the need and do commit spiritual crimes against all other opposing human beings. When you look for the reasons you will find that its not only the dictators whom are guilty of these crimes, democratically elected governments and so called Godly and religious nations are doing the same thing in the name of their belonging groups. Until we individually learn, that there is no us and them when it comes to humanity, spirituality and God, we will not be enlightened enough to get it right for us individually.