The True Dynamics of Life
Selected
Excerpts
Question Life Even When It’s
Going Well
Many
people only question life, the universe, God, etc., when things become
problematic. When we are materially comfortable and there is plenty of
everything and a feeling of being on top of the world, we say how great life is
and we do not probe deeply enough into the recesses of our being. Yes, we may do charity work, or donate our
unwanted things, but we do not really go inside and question exactly who we
are. The second life throws us a
challenge, or we are struggling to survive, we curse the heavens in despair and
say, ‘Why me?’ Humans have the habit of
only questioning the reason for living when their very existence is being
challenged and when life is no longer fulfilling their desires.
A Solution Is Needed To The Vast
Problem Of Human Suffering
Politics,
religion and wealth have not answered the human cry of desperation, as people
are dying every day from famine, disease, and neglect. War is rife across the
world, as is crime, and we are besieged with contradictory beliefs and the
suffering we cause each other is astronomical. We have put our faith and trust
into politics, religion, etc., in order to better the state of man, but still
the endless bout of pain continues. Who
is going to help us? Who is going to
sort out the mess we have created?
Help Needed
The
human being is crying for release, so what would it take for us to all start
again? We cannot expect this of others;
we can only ask it from ourselves. The
question is, do we really want it? Is the passion for the truth deep
enough? Is it said that we as a human
race, have suffered for thousands of years and still we have learned nothing.
Big Change Needed
If we
could stop and drop all that is not working and start again, would we put a
different way of living in place? What
would the new way involve? It would be
pointless just dealing with one country because the problem is global. So you would have to work on the world as a
whole. There are three major aspects on
this planet-humans, environment, and nature, and each one of these needs a
serious amount of healing, because humans have worked against the natural flow
of things…Can the world at present drop everything to become one? Or would people still hold onto their
customs, their religions, their power and their wealth, because it is these
divisions that keep society working in the same vein as it always has.
We’re Responsible For The World
We have
to stop and accept the responsibility for global starvation, the water
shortages, the mass pollution, the mass waste and the complete separation from
each other. We are totally out of balance and fallible and the government as a
whole is too far removed from those at the bottom who are dying from the
carnage of disease and famine. If there
was such a thing as unity of man, would you allow anyone to die from lack of
food or clean water? Would the prime minister or president of that country
allow his/her own child to die this way?
Would s/he allow his daughter to be sold into prostitution and his son
get caught up in gang warfare? Anyone
with love in their heart would not have this happen to their children, so why
do we allow it to happen others? What in
the system is not working? Let’s be honest.
What is the fundamental reason why we, as individuals and as a society,
allow another human being to suffer? What do we get out of it? What is the
pay-off?
Second-Hand Living
We are
asking if there is something inside of you which has not been touched by the
mind or by beliefs and conditioning. Is
there something beyond all of this, or are we born just to be filled up with
language, habits, and patterns in order to die? What would be the point in
that? Or are we afraid to truly live as
our real self, letting our self becoming complacent with just a description of
life and following that description, calling it law, order, society, etc? We live short-hand lives because we conform
to rules around us and we accept all that is told to us. We have become trapped by these rules and we
deny our self the freedom to enquire and find out for our self.
Becoming Free
When you
can accept yourself for who you are without trying to be a ‘somebody’ in the
eyes of humanity, then, you have let go of your ego. Only an ego would make a person a somebody or
its opposite, a ‘nobody’. Your descriptive labels are not who you are, they are
what you have become, so don’t judge yourself and others on the value of a
label. Instead, allow the true you to
emerge, because when you are not attached to any descriptive label, you are
free.
Religion Is Failing Us
The
second you choose to become part of a belief or a system, you have immediately
become separated from all those outside of this belief. Religion does not unite
the world, it separates it, and anything that separates is not an act of love.
Ask yourself if this is true. If
religion united people, then why is there a terrorist war or why is Islam at
war with the Jews, and the Hindus? If
each religion is the so-called way to God in order to become enlightened, then
why do so few people make it? Would an
enlightened person kill another human being?
Or is it just a system of elitism? Religion is not working because if it
were we would all be God-realized beings on this planet, working in harmony
with each other and with nature. In
fact, we are nowhere near to reaching this concept. Historically, religion has helped us to
separate and divide families, towns, cities, countries, nations and ultimately
the world. People die and kill over
their beliefs.
The Stopping
Point
Suppose
everyone in the world were to be shown clearly that both the cause of, and the
solution to, the chaos in humanity lay within themselves, would they act upon
this realization, or would they continue in the world ways? Awareness is the
key. Awareness is inner action, which
leads to outer action and brings about the change. It is up to each individual to develop
awareness. There is no book of
instructions, no special technique of how to ‘do’ this. Awareness is not ‘doing’, it is pure ‘being’.
What Holds Us
Back
There
are three traps in humanity that bind the eternal being to the material world
and you have to decide if you want to come under the control of any of these
traps. This does not mean you rebel in
anger, or you set out to change the world by force, etc. It is something you look at and see for
yourself, about yourself, and you catch yourself through observing your mind,
your desires and your fears. Can you see
how mind, religion and society are controlling you, and ultimately, this
planet?