The simple fact and reason that there is so much abuse in the world that is allowed and continues to exist, is because those who have the opportunity to do something about it simply do not understand the reality of pain/suffering/abuse. If each one of us understood fully what is actually going on in this world and the agony billions exist in each and every single moment, there would be no hesitation to stand up COMPLETELY as life and do everything necessary to have this abuse end for good. Each one of us would push to stop all thought, personality, self-interest, excuses and justifications.
People live the way that they do - living as if suffering does not exist - because they exist within the design/delusion of self-interest and have done so for most of their lives. We have been raised to be self-interest consumed individuals - we have identified ourselves AS the self-interest system, AS the personality, AS thoughts, AS emotions - when this is actually the mind of man which is a self-interest machine and does not actually have the capacity and ability to consider all life, to understand what suffering actually is.
Pushing ourselves to face this world, to face the abuse head on, to really look and walk with the beings to understand what they are going through, what the animals are going through in the factory farms, what the child being raped in Africa is going through, what war is actually like beyond the censorship of the news on television - this I have found is the key to really actually standing up, making a real difference in this world, fully caring, breaking the spell/cage of self-interest, and living free. In this we finally stop living as a delusion - the delusion of self-interest where we live day in day out unaware of reality, thinking that nothing else but my life exists, thinking that we actually know who we are and pointing to our mind/personality/thoughts to say that this is 'me' - this IS delusional.
Anyone who justifies abuse in this world has no understanding of what the experience of torturous pain and suffering actually is. If they DID, they would not ever allow any form of abuse again. We really have no idea at all. We see a TV ad from World Vision of children in a poor country and that is all most of us ever allow ourselves to see - we have no real understanding of what they experience. If we DID, if we all did, we would fucking do everything we can to end it once and for all. I hear stories of children being raped in South Africa - every three minutes I have read, and even BABIES - I heard something once about a month old child being raped! What are our priorities? What could be a higher priority than to have this end? If we DO have higher priorities based on self-interest and desires, or the desire to be special and noticed, which is a HUGE point that all of us are or have been tangled up in before, then we really need to stop and look at this properly for a moment, because we are not understanding the severity of the abuse that exists in this world. A baby being raped - this is real, this happens in the world.
Let's forget about all kinds of mind desires and pursuits and focus fully on ending this kind of abuse - this is to be my only focus beyond all else, beyond wanting a woman or following tracks of thought and mind pursuits believing that this is me as "David" wanting to go somewhere and do this and travel there and do that, and eat that food and watch that movie - when I'm only being used by my mind without realizing it, because I have defined myself according to these designs. Let's understand the reality of what is actually going on here and stop hiding in the mind world of personality, where only the beings immediate world seems to matter or even exist, because that isn't real. I have had so much trouble in the past, clinging onto desires in one form or another. I need to let go of all of this, both in the realization of the bottom line - what I am actually existing to do, which is to END abuse and live free - and also in the understanding that I do not actually need what I desire, which I have not fully allowed myself to realize yet; that life fills in all gaps and any kind of lack or emptiness. Sometimes it seems impossible to give up deeply rooted desires but I know that if I really push myself to do this full out I'll be fine.
Thanks.
Monday, November 8, 2010
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Thanks David! There is a lot of abuse in this world and we need to remove it all asap.
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