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The question is why every religion, ism or any other way of governing human society puts the demands on the individual to sacrifice for the others or even live in deprivation for the after-life, yet it is the individual who has been given free will to choose the way to live. If everyone does every thing we are asked and to blindly believe, as some of us do, we would believe and follow all the rules of society. Then there should be a lot of surplus over and above the needs of humanity. But the effects of our politics on the individual are so bad, that I am compelled to write against the politics of the belonging groups. I am for the reciprocation from both sides. Since everywhere you turn the individual is suffering, just look around and see, in the name of nation, race and religion how many people have been killed. I bet no one can count and keep track of killings and sufferings of the individual, so I have to and I am standing for the individual.
How and where did the things go wrong? There is a widening gap people are talking about; the one percent holding the wealth and ninety nine percent stuck in poverty. What does it mean that one percent following what the religions, isms and other governing system have been preaching? Even the bigger question is that, if the ninety nine percent got robbed by the politics of these governing systems.
If you feel that you have been talked into living small and you must save until the day you die and yet feel pride for doing so, at the end of the day, living by the book and I mean literally, is still a personal choice for you. Remember you are the CEO of your life. The next question comes to mind is that why only one percent ends up with all the money and power? Is it a flaw of our governing systems or the ninety nine percent is willingly following the politics and giving up their status of being the CEO?
We have been told to believe and obey all the rules. If we disobey, we would be punished, if one does not break the rule of law, but breaks all the religious rules we say God would punish him/her, so the life goes on. Hindus say that you can come back in next life as an inferior form of life, like rat or whatever, Muslims or Christian say God will punish you and put you in hell, but it would be in life after death.
Another concept is that if something wrong happens to someone, people believe that God had punished him/her for something bad they have done. All these things are up in the air and came from the belief systems – are these things right or wrong – is a matter of opinion. These opinions vary with the different style of up-bringing or societies, some care too much and some don’t give a damn.
So where do you stand? Do you believe God is some big punisher with the toture chambers or may be a big reward giver? Either way it is related with the human philosophy of carrot and stick, thus it is related with the politics and in my personal beliefs there is no politics in spirituality. One can believe whichever way one wants but when it comes to enforcing the belief system by force, it all falls into the zone of politics and it has nothing to do with the spirituality. We have been, are and will be victim of our politics, of sense of belonging to our belonging groups. That is the bottom line of our differences, bad relationships, conflicts and even our wars.
These days we have been forced by the nature to come out of our pigeon holes and half-heartedly join each other to save the planet from the global warming. The terrorism, global warming, uneven wealth distribution, infectious diseases, like Ebola crisis compelled mankind to work together. Our leaders are starting to talk, but would that go on forever or is there actually a trend to use the space station for the benefits of the humanity or we are just going to use our technology to destroy each other.
The challenge of global warming is not only the one thing we should be talking about. We should be talking about how to help the individual to become an educated person, so he/she can make the educated choices during the living years and should not live for and sacrifice the life for after-death. The biggest common problem may not be the global warming, because if we are not educated we can’t even understand what global warming is, we can just blame each other and even God.
If we are talking about a fifty year plan, we should be thinking about our conflicts first, because we may kill each other by our weapons of mass destructions way before that. If we are going to talk about coming together to combat our common problems, first thing we should be talking about is our education systems. Sense of belonging should be exclusively for the humanity, you can’t have the sense of belonging to your groups and when you talk about humanity as a whole, it should be under the umbrella of your belonging group. All empires, religions, nations have been and are in the political business of flourishing their belonging groups.
The whole theme of my blog is education, education, and education so we can understand spirituality over religion, humanity over nations, race or prejudice of all kind. Planet before mother lands, moderation over all kind of extremism. If we are going to talk about the democracy, we have to discard the veto system in our grand and so-called united nation. The foundation or the heart of the democracy is one man/woman, one vote, where and how some individual or nation became above all that to achieve that status, plain and simple it is against the democracy’s fundamentals. Just like the religions can’t really have the religion without the politics of sense of belonging, we just can’t have even the democracy without the sense of belonging to our groups, that is why our united nation claims to be democratic but can’t function without the interruptions of the veto powers. We should have legally binding justice system and police force for the humanity. If you think that model is impossible to create just look at the advanced societies. There are all kind of people live together with the human rights in the foundation of the constitutions of these societies.
We may seek it, but absolute silence is not a melody for the human beings. Extreme awareness is for the chosen few and if everybody starts to live like a monk, it can drug the social fabric. As individuals, we have responsibilities even if we are told that we are going to heaven by following a certain lifestyle.
For moderate folks, life is not and can’t be lived in extreme of any kind. A CEO has to juggle around all the departments of life in order to be a successful CEO, in his/her life sometimes, religion and heaven should become secondary to the present duties of life. God created human being with the abilities to be a CEO not a sheep, otherwise free will means nothing. If you are told live a sheep’s life there is a sheep dog calling the shots with the political agenda so make sure to make sense before you deny your potential for the sense of belonging to your belonging group.
As told by religions, and promoted by all societies, living life for the afterlife is the right way to live. Logically, God would not have put people in difficult situations, if everything was decided for the human by the other entity. Free will has its purpose: that is to make you the CEO of your life. Sure a CEO has a choice to find a balance in this life by believing and doing something for the afterlife. But first, the CEO must look at this life.
Since God did not make man a sheep by giving a free will, it is man’s duty to understand his/her potential. I said it before that God put seven oceans together into one drop and put that into a man or woman, and no, we are not here just to worship we are here to work as a work horse of God, so we have to have some self respect so we can reciprocate. It is man’s duty to find a balance. The right music of our life is not in quietness. Our responsibility is to make the right kind of noise for us, as individuals, community and at larger scale humanity.
A good CEO takes up the responsibility. Not only for him or her self, the CEO also corrects the notes of other people around by educating, if you are educated spread the words it is your spiritual duty because if you are following the same old politics of your sense of belonging to your belonging group you are not being a CEO, you have demoted your self as, just an extension of an ideology.
With advances in medical science, we are now able to extend the length and quality of our lives. If we look at it this way, how much influence one can have by living a constructive or a destructive life? Every day, there is something new being discovered and we find ourselves in uncharted territory. If we do not take charge as the CEO, we are left to follow antiquated ideas and beliefs our ancestors laid out for us thousands of years ago. They did not have today’s knowledge, technology and the related problems, they did not even know that earth was round, and day light varies in different part of the earth. It’s a must for the individual to evolve as the time turns forward.
Only a CEO can look beyond the boundaries created by the politics of sense of belonging. A CEO can believe in God yet evolve beyond religious boundaries. We have been created with a higher identity than the religions, nations, race or gender, we are told to follow the certain political path but it is still a choice.
A CEO can evolve beyond the sense of belonging, make sense of today’s issues and put everything in place according to its importance. What gives us our identity, is that intelligent life within us, and that life does not belong to one race, color, gender, nation or a religion. It is a spiritual entity which connects us all beyond a particular group. We are part of this entity which is not connected to a limited group of people as a gang, nation or a religion.
Knowledge dictates the strength of an individual. If each one of us believes that we are worthless without belonging to a group, we undermine and underestimate the God within us.
As CEOs, we must use our free will to live this life reciprocating because that is the purpose of our lives meant by the God. We must pursue our potential. Our evolving nature calls for moderation, because we are a work in progress, our decisions for extremes should be harnessed with the knowledge of evolution. I want this blog to speak to the individuals spiritually not politically so we all become moderates by seeking right knowledge one person at a time. Any kind of extreme is not a solution for a successful life of an individual or even a society.
Just like we cannot judge a book by its cover, a building or an artwork which is incomplete, a human being should not be judged to be perfect because he/she is in a process of evolution as well. We will make mistakes, yet achieve and do perfect things, but we should know and learn to get better, not worse. A strong ego stems from the sense of belonging and is related to our extreme decisions. If we accept imperfections, that means we still want to grow but when we think that our knowledge is complete, and especially better than others, our ego leads us to extreme beliefs.
There is nothing wrong in being religious as long as one sticks with the spiritual side of it, but when one puts religion above everything, it becomes a problem. For instance, it does not make sense to kill your loved one because he or she does not want to follow your way of living.
Eating food to live, to love and care for the family is as real as it gets. God resides in a different area of life. It does not hurt whether you believe in God or not. But losing a loved one is painful and it is a reality that going without food can harm you physically. A belief system is a thought process which can be changed with new knowledge. Thus, it is not stable. The proof of the instability is loud and clear in that because we have several religions with their sects, what does it mean to you? To me it means even God had to write different books because we all including God is in the process of evolving. Not too long ago we sacrifice poor virgins because we thought God is angry, today we predict the path of the storms. To me this is clear indication that God lives through us because now we can save lives by knowing what is the path of the storms or tsunamis. You can believe whatever you want but I believe it is God helping the mankind evolve, and mankind reciprocating.
God cannot be blamed, because we have been granted free will so what could be the reason of our fighting and killing each other, we have been doing that as long as the known history. The reasonable reason for different books can be that we might not have been able to handle all the knowledge at once. Stubborn people with emotions and an over powering sense of belonging has the power to make even educated people get stuck in the politics of their group and deny and dismiss the other groups. Or maybe God has a role in bringing humans onto themselves on the day of qayamat (apocalypse) or save them and carry on with the human race with their free will.
The concept of God exists in the human race is based on importance of the human individual cell of God’s body. If we all kill each other, it will not only hurt mankind but also God’s existence. Would God allow that? Since I am an optimistic individual, I think human beings will come to their senses and cross the religious and political lines of sense of belonging to their belonging groups and join together before it’s too late. I hope it is a start of something big, we are starting to join the humanity. Space station, internet, collective action against the infectious diseases like Ebola crisis and now global warming is bringing us together.
Such a large number of religious books means God created a competitive environment, so that we can come to an understanding that it is the path we are following leads to destruction thus we can use the free will to come together as an entity or I should say as humanity.
Armed with incomplete knowledge, we have been killing one another for thousands or millions of years to prove who is right. This should teach us that there is more to understand in this life. It is time to change and climb higher on the ladder of potential. Following group politics and falling for it has brought us to a crossroad: of choice. We can either stay in our pigeon holes and keep killing each other or come out of our insecurities and change the course of our journey and its outcome. God will love to see his creation finally ‘get it’.
Human power individually and collectively is beyond human imagination and understanding, until the human being reaches his/ her potential.
Imagine a street bum with five dollars becomes a billionaire. We are in the process of gaining power and understanding. So we cannot claim that our knowledge is complete.
God is writing a new book with human help. How it ends is a mystery. So we cannot see everything as doom and gloom. We have to be optimistic and hopeful. If we understand that there is more to learn, we will become humble about the existing knowledge.
If we are humble, we will believe in tolerance, acceptance and harmony. At that stage, we can go beyond the boundaries of religions, and deep into the territories of spirituality, where God is not a monster, who punishes, burns and kills. There is no carrot and stick in spirituality; there is no politics of right or wrong. There is only the truth, raw and simple, that a human being is the third equation who can make decisions with God-given free will to choose God or the Devil inside to change his/her destiny.
Does that mean we can change the day of qayamat, if we get our act together and stop digging a grave for humanity by making and using weapons of mass destruction then yes.
In my understanding human emotions are not completely understood. We need to work hard to evolve in this area to understand more of Godly man so we can learn to put things in perspective. We love our loved ones, we love people around us and we love God through our religions. The politics of sense of belonging is way out of control, individual feels trapped and helpless without sense of freedom. We need to find the free will which can balance out the sense of belonging with sense of freedom.