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We are on the highway of our potential, hypothetically one hundred mile or kilometer long, long or short is not important, it is all about the pursuit and the journey, because the destination is not clearly understood, at least not for me because I believe we are an evolving organism. We may not grow the halo or the horns but in every sense we are evolving, from black to white or from small muscles to big bodybuilders to our brains with all the modern technologies like our computers and self driven cars to space station. We have been evolving one millimeter or an inch at a time. Whether millimeter or an inch as long as we evolve we are going in the right direction.
Since we have to do God’s work while we are alive this journey is the real destination for the living human individually and collectively as humanity. The stuff after life is not as relevant as it has been preached to us. Just like in living years the future is not a reality thus is a horizon if you spent all your life chasing horizon you would never be able to live a fulfilling present and without a fulfilling present your past even a whole life can be spent in discontentment, thus not useful to you, that means you as an individual has the potential to waste a life time wasting it. This life time is a gift and is the one when you are useful to God and to the individual him/herself. With the free will the individual is given the responsibility of the self as well so he/she can not only do God’s work but enjoy it for him/herself as well.
You are not meant to spend all your life on a wheel in the hamster cage. If you choose not to enjoy your living years it is your loss because always remember you have been blessed with the free will for a reason.
With the free will you have been given a choice to live the way you want to, while you are alive you have one duty, and that is to reciprocate. It is not one or the other, you can choose the extreme by choice but it would not be fulfilling nor it would be wise.
No matter how far you dig in the past you will find human individual struggling with the inner demons of imbalance. For the human being the struggle has been is and will be an on going process because of the powerful sense of belonging to the belonging groups. The groups know the individual’s vulnerabilities and weaknesses because they raise a child with that education thus they promote and glorify the sacrificing individual and penalize the questioning, freedom seeking and straying CEO.
Every human, when in balanced state, is potentially giving and sacrificing, but the inner insecurities can take the individual to the other extreme and make him/her selfish. Increasing the awareness of direct connection and responsibilities of the reciprocation can make all the difference for the humanity and the individual at the same time.
If one is put down, labeled and shunned, their spirituality gets suppressed thus back fires, individual and collectively as a humanity everyone loses. Collectively the groups don’t see the side of the individual being mortal with the free will and individual human rights thus push the individual to sacrifice but in the process lose the individual to other groups whom understand and accommodate the free thinking CEOs thus both gain. Looking at the refugees march into the Europe is a clear example of the shift I am talking about. The vast majority of the individuals want to live life, raise their children in peace.
Just look around and research the views of the populations all over the world, there is a change right before your eyes. Thus far the only religious leader came out to accept those changes or at least talk about the changes, was the pope, I have not seen from other religions to accept the issues of equal human rights openly. You just can’t deny the spirituality of the equal human rights.
The extremist groups like religions are the one deny the changes and literally force the individual to comply with the old and out dated philosophies of control. The vast majority of the refugees whom are fleeing the belonging countries are Muslims. Why these Muslims leave to the western countries, why not Muslim countries? because the unrest is related with the conservatism and liberalism. If you look at the financial reasons it is not true most the Arab nations have lot of resources and are quite advance economically. When I was in the Kuwait I saw all nationalities including Europeans and Americans working to make money. There is a lot more going on in the world populations, finances aside we all are looking to raise our children in peace.
Most religions first talk about the compassion, forgiveness, sacrifice and love yet the politics of sense of belonging drowns these precious jewels. When, where and how did the major religions lost their spirituality to the politics. A politically charged mullah, priest or a rabbi incite religious stories to inspire people to be militants thus the red neck behavior and suicide bombers come to existence.
Why such disregard of innocent life loss? The real answers are drowned in the religious rhetoric and each one defends his/her actions as revenge for the love loss of the belonging group thus it is purely political. Political disputes of the religions have been consistent with our history thus there no one to blame but our animal side for the unaccountable victims whom had nothing to do with any war to begin with but guilty of being born into the belonging religion.
Why can’t we deal with our religious extreme? Why are we so gunge ho about killing each others innocent individuals? This is not new it has been happening right from the beginning of our civilization. There was a political war more than a thousand year ago, when Prophet Mohammad’s grand sons were killed and that dispute is still going on between the Shia and Sunni sects of Islam. No one is willing to come out to patch things up. It is like a wound no one wants it to heal just because it relates with the religion, yet it was a political war. I believe all wars are political wars because they all have hidden agendas of power and control of the religious authorities. Since no one hesitates to deny the religious sense of belonging, religions are just the front to gain continuing support from the populations, thus the disputes never end. Ireland is an other example, religious disputes don’t go away because the young blood is always willing to bleed.
I saw a movie which stuck with me because it was about the religious war, the title was the” Kingdom of heaven” the story about the Jerusalem was more than a thousand year old but if you look deeply nothing has changed the disputes and wars continue. A little more recent history was when India and Pakistan split. I read a short story book written by Krishan Chunder when I was in Pakistan, since it was long time ago I don’t remember the details. He states an incident during the partition and I Quote
“ A Hindu gets caught by the extremist Hindu mob, he repeatedly says that I am Hindu, but they thought he was a Muslim so one of them stabs him in the abdomen and cuts through his waist band to make him naked just to discover that if he was circumcised, upon discovering that he was actually a Hindu the individual who cut him open said oh he made a mistake and carried on his actions to killing others. End quote”
What drives these otherwise simple and peaceful religious people to commit spiritual crimes and not feel any remorse or guilt. Why do the religions effect people to rise up for the violence against others regardless of the religions? And why does the individual do good things on the name of religions? If this violence and goodness comes from the same individual, there has to be an explanation. Are these people confused by the powerful politics of sense of belonging, or they have not been exposed to the knowledge of the sense of belonging to the humanity as a whole. What is in the religions, which adds or removes the com from the passion yet in spirituality the individual keeps and wears compassion as jewellery. Politics of the sense of belonging to the belonging group robs and strips the com form the passion.
A CEO can understand spirituality beyond the politics of sense of belonging to a group and act as a human whom belongs to the humanity as a whole.
The silent majority of the individuals are more spiritual than all the extremists from all religions put together. Committing a spiritual crime on the name of God is not exclusive to any one particular religion.
Liberals in Canada are reversing the wrong done to the natives, gays and blacks. These are the new winds blowing all over the world. People whom stand with their extreme religious beliefs may end up fighting the uphill battle in the court of justice system because they can’t win against the equal human rights. Politically they would lose in public opinion because it is impossible to stand against the spirituality.
A religion is an impotent entity without the spirituality and human is naked ape without the compassion, forgiveness, sacrifice and love. If your education is to rob innocent individuals of love, you already are in the politics of your belonging group. You would be part of the problem not the solution so it is time for you to own your actions and don’t hide your politics of sense of belonging behind the religion.Your belonging group has a place but it does not and it should not have a say because you are born with the free will directly from God way before inception of any religion. No race, nation or religion is the way to God only the spirituality is the way because it is for the humanity thus God.
As I said wear your jewels of compassion, forgiveness, sacrifice and love proudly and don’t let anyone strip you off the jewels because you are a human being only because of that jewellery. It is not the opinion of your belonging group that matters, it is your personal opinion of yourself matters the most.
Remember you are the one who is mortal, being a temporary soul you need to learn more about the spirituality, sooner the better because it teaches you about the reciprocation which is the purpose of your life. In the process of a mortal life you don’t want to hurt someone with something, which you feel the pain from. The old saying don’t do to someone what you don’t like done to you.
Fire fighters sometime use controlled fire to fight wild fires, generally fire is not the answer to the fire, but we as humans use emotional fire for emotional fire all the time. From personal relationships to national level to religions all over the world and deep in our history, our conflicts are dealt with the wrong philosophy. No wonder we can’t put our fires out regardless of our evolution.
We need to learn from our mistakes, our religions were spouse to have helped us but they fell victim to our group politics of sense of belonging. If everyone of us becomes a CEO and thinks about personal opinion about the spiritual self, overcomes personal fires, refuse to commit spiritual crimes for the belonging groups whether it be a nation or religion then and only then we have a chance to survive as humanity from the predictions of the holy books.
If you believe the prophecies as the truth Mayans predicted the end of the world in year two thousand and I am still writing about it sixteen years later. Obviously they have been proven wrong. If you believe in the future which is not a reality yet but you ruin your today because of it, it is logically wrong. Simply you can’t destroy your present not even one day for the past or the future because each bad day is going to add up to be your mortal life.
The question is, do you really want to ruin a temporary visit just because of the way you are taught to think? Should you destroy it for any reason whether it be for the nationalism or religious extreme it is your choice and by making a choice, in the end of the day you have to answer to yourself. The importance of self does not mean you become a selfish being it just makes you a CEO who deals with all the departments of life and is an important figure in his/her life. Becoming a CEO of your life to assume your responsibilities is the new paradigm.