If you see a blackhead or a whitehead on your face, you might try to pick or squeeze it to get rid of the pus, feeling cleaner and better, sometimes for others and sometimes for your own comfort. Ever wonder if you have the same kind of problem on your spiritual face? Would you pick at it to get rid of the infection or nurture it? Squeezing the pus out of it frees and relieves you from what can lead to spiritual crimes. Therefore, squeezing the pus out of your spiritual pimples would be helpful to your mortal life.
Prejudice is like a spiritual ailment taught by most religions, nations, and races. From race to religion, from nations to sports, and personal relationships, it exists everywhere because of our flawed ancestral education systems. Our ancestors were brought up with it, and we learned to follow, but it did not get us anywhere. Thus, we need to dig out the dead dog of our problems so our coming generations don’t have to keep living with it.
If we don’t assume and make intellectual guesses, we would not evolve and grow our knowledge. Whether it be racism, nationalism, or religious extremism, we would never come out of it and evolve to the next level of our potential, especially if we ignore equal human rights. When it comes to spirituality, we have to find creative and new ways to help humanity, even if it means crossing boundaries created by our ancestors, whether they be race, color, nation, or religion.
Giving something to the poor is a good deed that makes you feel good deep inside, but it is not good enough. We should try to work against the causes of poverty and disease. Why is the person on the street? You can easily judge and be prejudiced against them, but first, you should be appreciative of not being in their shoes because it doesn’t take much to fall out of good mental health. I am not saying that everyone on the street has mental health issues, but I would not be surprised if there is a high number.
Many people claim that it is not their responsibility to look after the poor and sick. Some are even against others helping the poor. There is a belief that it is a choice to be poor. To them, I would say, always remember there is a physical side of life and a spiritual side, and then it is you who has to create the balance for your well-being in all areas of life. Whether it be physical, mental, emotional, psychological, or spiritual, it takes all of them to complete a human being. If you happen to be functioning well, you are blessed. Whenever you feel judgmental, picture yourself in their shoes. It will put things into perspective for you because no one has control over their birth. You could be born in the slums of poor countries or even war-torn areas. If you are in a position to judge, you should consider yourself lucky by birth because you had the opportunity to work to get ahead. No matter which way you cut it, you are strong, working, and able to judge others because you have had help.
If you come to life as a vulnerable person who needs help to the point that you can’t even hold your head up, and your parents help you to get stronger, they got help from the community and the society they belonged to, where they could work and be secure enough to help you. President Obama got in trouble when he commented about the help rich people got from society through means of roads, bridges, and cities already built for them.
Life is not as simple or black and white as it is simplified by religious people. God is good and gives you good things; the Devil is bad and corrupts you. You can say God is doing everything, thus all your actions are done because of God. Remember “God willing,” it will happen, or “I would do it if God allows me to do it.” When someone does something, he/she is judged and punished by religious people harshly. Just remember these people believe even a leaf on the tree can’t move without the will of God, but they punish people harshly for petty crimes. Most religious societies believe in capital punishment. If it were up to them, they would still stone people to death for committing adultery. If you join a new religion, your previous sins would be forgiven, and you will start a new life. Sounds like a good deal, or Prophet Jesus died for our sins, so we are good to go. If you are given a way out, you would feel good and follow the religion, yet just look around at the spiritual crime rate and social insecurities. Are we falling apart, or have religious systems failed us miserably?
When it comes to the Devil, it becomes tricky. You can become a little politician and claim that the Devil made you do it, so you take no responsibility for your bad deeds. The trouble is that if you believe in God, you have to believe in the Devil as well because you have to be able to judge the good and the bad. If one is not there, you can’t compare, thus you can’t really understand the importance of good or bad. If you believe them as they are believed by religions, you lose yourself as an individual and take yourself out of the equation. A big disconnect in this area is that if the man is not there, the physicality of both God and the Devil disappears because the judge and the doer in deeds is the man, thus good and bad sides lose their meanings. If you don’t understand, look at the triangle I made on the main page; it will help you understand the importance of the human individual. You are the third equation; if you are not there, the triangle falls apart because the good and the bad disappear with the judge and doer. You may say that God and the Devil would still exist, but would they mean anything to anyone? Their importance exists with the physical side of it, and without man, I can’t see that happening.
If you have no say and mean nothing in the bigger picture, there is a disconnect in your part. So assume your responsibilities and become the CEO of your life. It has always been, is, and will always be up to the individual to understand his/her importance; otherwise, you are meaningless.
Whenever I talk about the sense of belonging, politics, and religion, I am always talking about the political side of it. Spirituality is present in all religions and groups, so I believe whenever there are gatherings of some sort, there will be politics. So it is the individual’s responsibility to sort things out. He/she can do it, but first, you have to become a CEO so you can do justice to all, including yourself. You can judge yourself, especially if you feel you are being biased or prejudiced. If you have anything against another group, you have to be able to judge your group as well. Remember, justice is for all. In spirituality, there is no us and them; there is only one entity. You can call it God or humanity; either way, it is one body, and we are all its cells. Color, gender, race, nation, or religion don’t matter. The purpose is one, and that is the well-being and survival of the entity.
The divide comes from the sense of belonging, and we all feel connections to our families, communities, nations, and religions. So the CEO has a tough job ahead to do justice, especially when he/she has to stand against his/her own belonging group. The potential of the human individual is so immense that we all underestimate ourselves. Just look at yourself functioning. Ever wonder how you function? Look at even the human cell; it will surprise you with the accuracies of science and, in my opinion, science and spirituality simultaneously. Where did our compassion, forgiveness, sacrifice, and love come from? If you think we have just acquired these things with our civilization, think again and look at the past. How far do you want to go? People still tried to save the lives of others just like today. You can see every now and then on the news that a perfect stranger jumps in to save a life. As human beings, we were spiritually ripened way before our civilization. There are certain things you just can’t install; you come with them like a computer.
The two spaces human lives in: the one up above where our planet seems to be a little rock and then the space inside of every one of us. If you look inside the human cell, you find a space-like place with all the organization. Now imagine we have ten trillion of them and then a hundred trillion bacteria with millions of genes all working for one human individual. So do you still claim that you know everything there is to know? Do you really think you can live just because your doctor put you on a cholesterol-lowering drug or an aspirin? I am not saying that everyone has to believe in God and bow down for mercy to keep alive and give you everything you desire whenever you want. But I am saying the complexity of our being alive is so immense that our understanding is just scratching the surface. We have no idea where we came from, what happens before our birth, and after death. If you do with about twenty percent of your brain power, you are simply following an egotistic way of living.
We come to live this life to enjoy and reciprocate by helping humanity because we all have been helped. It is all about the individual balance. There is nothing wrong with looking for self-interest and enjoying life along the way, but living life in a take, take, and take or using others without reciprocation is a plain wrong philosophy for your inside spiritual being. Living life on the surface will limit the individual to surface living. You can’t feel inner peace and deep happiness, nor can you enjoy the love of being part of humanity. It has been, is, and always will be a choice for the human individual to live life, so the choices you make should be for you.
If you squeeze out the pus of all kinds of prejudice, you will become an evolved being who understands mortal life. Real happiness comes from understanding the inner self. We all should make our temporary journey full of fun for ourselves and reciprocate at the same time. When it’s time to leave and you become vulnerable again and need help, you would get help because you invested in the people around you and in humanity during your strong years. Not only will you feel inner peace, but you will also have a sense of fulfillment.
Times are changing, and obedience to religious rules and authoritarian ways of governing has been changing. But if you look closely, spirituality is still consistent. Canada is bringing in twenty-five thousand Syrians, even though they did not cause the Middle East crisis. Yet Donald Trump wants to ban all Muslims from entering the United States and has a big number of followers.
Liberals came to power because Canadians opted for compassion. Governing a country or a nation is not, and I say it again, it is not like running a business. The vast majority of businesses fail within the first three years. It is not a good comparison or at least not a good example. It is not all about the numbers, nor is it about the ego. It is about running a business of humanity, which requires compassion, forgiveness, sacrifice, and love—all the jewels of spirituality. These are the fundamentals missing in number-oriented business organizations. The dog-eat-dog or cut-throat competitive world of Wall Street gives you a clear picture of a society that lacks or runs without spirituality. Human beings are mortal social creatures. Not only do we need to be replaced by our coming generations to run our societies, but we also need social nurturing. Without it, societies fall apart. Sure, it is very important to have the finances in order, but I believe the human individual is an insecure entity because of the knowledge of mortality. So everyone saves and hoards, thus taking wealth out of circulation, and the majority becomes poor. The understanding of mortality should have us living temporarily, yet it has gone the other way around. It is not only because of the individual; our governments and religions want people to live frugally so they leave more resources behind than they consume during their lifetime. I would love to see people leave their hoarded wealth before passing. The Egyptians took it along as if they would need it in the afterlife, but we have people robbing their tombs for their assets.