I do hope that someday the educated world will have a lot of educated girls and women. And they will change everything. Someday, they will take the role of mother, healer, teacher, leader and we will understand that we were just too busy, too hungry for too many things. Perhaps then we can settle down, and make just a few of us at a time, not a lot. But some. And if we start to occupy less land and our cities shrink or even start to disappear, who should complain? Not I. If we can't see our sky because there is a tree in the way, is that bad? I don't need to build a house that reaches above the trees. Just to see the sky. I know it's there. I don't need to go there. I don't belong in the sky, not yet anyway.
I remember such a simple line from a movie about Yoga and a Photographer's desire to try to "capture" the greats of Yoga. One interview, a man said he was at a group meeting and Satchidananda was giving a lecture. And when asked what would the man like in life, he said he wanted to be happy. And the Guru replied, I can't give you happiness, for you have it already. You all have it already. It's yours to lose. Maybe you lost it and are trying to find it in strange ways? Maybe you are trying to buy it back? Don't try. Stop You have it already.
If you ask calmly and honestly, you can have what you truly need. After all, the universe is quite limitless and TIME, whatever that is, is too. So our needs are pretty simple really in comparison. Just ask, not from a state of mind of greed or fear, but kindness and hope that you will be given enough and your wishes will be fulfilled. But be honest and truthful. Come from a place of kindness and hope. Then a lot is possible, a lot more than we thought.
If we are guided by the hand of God, what is God guiding us to do? If we are God but don't realize it, are we worshiping false idols? If God was simply the World, the Earth as Paradise and all living things temporary thought they are, just sharing this Paradise under the guidance of one-shared eternal soul would we come to value all Life and Nature more? Could we simply eliminate suffering by having just one Rule to follow? If so, what would that rule be? I can think of only one rule that really would matter and that seems to be impossible to follow. Don't kill. Think about it for a while. Just contemplate it. If we all are God, how can we hate? How can we destroy? It's because we have lost our way and are deluded by our own importance. But I am no more important that any other living thing. So why should I destroy it? To live? But I must die, so that is futile. No sustenance is far simpler than we are led to believe. We need far less to live well. We can live without killing things to eat. We don't need to cut down all our forests and plow up all our prairies and net all our seas. We don't. I know I will be laughed at. That's ok. I am not trying to prove myself better than you. We are both very temporary fixtures in this reality. So, I don't need to win you over to "my" way of thinking. No conversion to a "new religion". In fact no religion at all. Just stop killing for a day or two and then look around. Maybe things might change for the better? Hard to tell. Nobody wants us to stop. It's in the design of things that we have to destroy to create. But it's not. It's in the design of things to change and new life simply comes from old. Don't be too attached to this one little life you are now living. It will be gone too soon. But the World and Humanity and Nature will continue on without us. What kind of World and Civilization and Nature will we have contributed to? What is a better world? What truly matters?
I am glad we will never run out of cars. Should that happen, we might have to walk. What would happen then to civilization? Would it crumble and die? Better that Civilization die then for Nature to die? I should hope that someday they design a car that doesn't need a human driver. Then I don't have to buy it. It can just live a happy life of it's own without me. I see far away a place where the machines live happily without me and I will walk by and say hello and wave to them from time to time. I mean them no harm. But I can't be one of them. I am just NOT built that way. I hope you all understand? Goodbye to the world that we knew and hello to the world that will not remember me. Just as well. I was not worth remembering. But I was worth living, if just for that moment. Don't you think?
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I do hope that someday the educated world will have a lot of educated girls and women. And they will change everything.
Someday, they will take the role of mother, healer, teacher, leader and we will understand that we were just too busy, too hungry for too many things.
Perhaps then we can settle down, and make just a few of us at a time, not a lot. But some. And if we start to occupy less land and our cities shrink or even start to disappear, who should complain?
Not I.
If we can't see our sky because there is a tree in the way, is that bad? I don't need to build a house that reaches above the trees. Just to see the sky. I know it's there. I don't need to go there. I don't belong in the sky, not yet anyway.
I remember such a simple line from a movie about Yoga and a Photographer's desire to try to "capture" the greats of Yoga. One interview, a man said he was at a group meeting and Satchidananda was giving a lecture. And when asked what would the man like in life, he said he wanted to be happy.
And the Guru replied, I can't give you happiness, for you have it already.
You all have it already. It's yours to lose. Maybe you lost it and are trying to find it in strange ways? Maybe you are trying to buy it back? Don't try. Stop
You have it already.
If you ask calmly and honestly, you can have what you truly need. After all, the universe is quite limitless and TIME, whatever that is, is too. So our needs are pretty simple really in comparison. Just ask, not from a state of mind of greed or fear, but kindness and hope that you will be given enough and your wishes will be fulfilled. But be honest and truthful. Come from a place of kindness and hope. Then a lot is possible, a lot more than we thought.
If we are guided by the hand of God, what is God guiding us to do?
If we are God but don't realize it, are we worshiping false idols?
If God was simply the World, the Earth as Paradise and all living things temporary thought they are, just sharing this Paradise under the guidance of one-shared eternal soul would we come to value all Life and Nature more?
Could we simply eliminate suffering by having just one Rule to follow?
If so, what would that rule be? I can think of only one rule that really would matter and that seems to be impossible to follow.
Don't kill.
Think about it for a while. Just contemplate it. If we all are God, how can we hate? How can we destroy? It's because we have lost our way and are deluded by our own importance. But I am no more important that any other living thing. So why should I destroy it?
To live? But I must die, so that is futile. No sustenance is far simpler than we are led to believe. We need far less to live well.
We can live without killing things to eat. We don't need to cut down all our forests and plow up all our prairies and net all our seas. We don't.
I know I will be laughed at. That's ok. I am not trying to prove myself better than you. We are both very temporary fixtures in this reality. So, I don't need to win you over to "my" way of thinking. No conversion to a "new religion". In fact no religion at all.
Just stop killing for a day or two and then look around. Maybe things might change for the better?
Hard to tell. Nobody wants us to stop. It's in the design of things that we have to destroy to create.
But it's not. It's in the design of things to change and new life simply comes from old. Don't be too attached to this one little life you are now living. It will be gone too soon.
But the World and Humanity and Nature will continue on without us. What kind of World and Civilization and Nature will we have contributed to?
What is a better world? What truly matters?
I am glad we will never run out of cars. Should that happen, we might have to walk. What would happen then to civilization? Would it crumble and die? Better that Civilization die then for Nature to die?
I should hope that someday they design a car that doesn't need a human driver. Then I don't have to buy it. It can just live a happy life of it's own without me.
I see far away a place where the machines live happily without me and I will walk by and say hello and wave to them from time to time. I mean them no harm. But I can't be one of them. I am just NOT built that way. I hope you all understand?
Goodbye to the world that we knew and hello to the world that will not remember me. Just as well. I was not worth remembering. But I was worth living, if just for that moment.
Don't you think?