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Look within.
Be still.
Free from fear and attachment know the sweet joy of the
way.
Buddha
Real love is to
realize that we are one with life. Real love means tounderstand that we are one with the other person,
with nature, with thetrees, the
stones and with the blue sky.
Itis to realize that all of life
is God.
I asked all of you for questions
recently, and I am happy to have received some good ones
that I would like to answer. In fact, today's article is
inspired by a question from Aleta in India, who asked
"Aleta in India asked "Why everything is not fair and
just in this world?...". I give you my thoughts on this
in the article below.
As ever, please do give your
opinions on the
blog. Hope you enjoy it,
.
Regards,
Asoka Selvarajah
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"Why is everything unfair and unjust in this world?..."
It's a question a lot of people have on their minds.
Frankly,
it's a very big question too. Philosophers and mystics
have
pondered this for as long as humans have been on this
earth.
Hence, it's impossible to give a definitive answer.
However, here
are my personal thoughts on the matter.
We have to see this from two points of view
simultaneously; two
viewpoints which are ultimately paradoxical to each
other. The
first is our standard personality consciousness. From
this point
of view, many things in life do seem unfair. Not only do
they
seem unfair, they actually ARE unfair.
I don't need to give examples. You know what we are
talking
about.
However, that is just from the personality consciousness
viewpoint. In order to believe that life is unfair, you
have to
completely believe in the "reality" of the personality
consciousness experiencing that life, and its
interpretation of
what is being presented to it by the senses.
Now, the other viewpoint is what we might all the
"enlightenment
perspective". This is essentially the dispassionate,
detached
observer - pure consciousness - that can watch the
unfolding of
events without judgment or blame. It does not have
mental
investment in world events. It just sees them come and
go, like
the water flowing by in a river.
To it, the meanings and motives we attribute to events
are
essentially illusory. Not only that, it perceives the
human body
and the human consciousness to be equally illusory. from
that
higher consciousness perspective, there is no
"unfairness" and
"injustice". Things just are. That's all.
Even if you suffer physically or mentally, this higher
consciousness perspective is untroubled because it
realizes that
the suffering and death of the physical body is not
ultimate in
any sense, but just a passing phase in existence.
Now, all of this is admittedly a pretty tough
perspective for
most of us to achieve on an ongoing basis We may be
momentarily
capable of this, but in the unenlightened state, it is
impossible
to sustain for any appreciable length of time. And the
vast
majority of us ARE unenlightened, no matter how much
modern
Western spiritual books and courses might like to tell
you
differently.
Now, this higher consciousness we are talking about is
largely an
Eastern mystical perspective. It cannot generally be
found in the
Western tradition, as represented by religions such as
Christianity, Judaism and Islam.
All of these DO assume the reality of the individual
person as a
given. There is no illusion here. A person is real, and
that
person's consciousness is real. Likewise, if there is a
higher
perspective that makes all things right, it is the
personal God's
perspective alone. Moreover, this perspective is "right"
because
God knows his own private purposes and plans that are
working
themselves out in his creation. Hence, from the human
point of
view, according to this system, things ARE unfair.
BUT... all
will be made right WHEN God's purposes are finally
revealed.
Until then, we must have faith and trust that all will
eventually
work together for good for those that trust in God.
There are many problems with this approach, not least of
which
is the perfectly valid question as to why God created
such a
perverse situation in the first place. Christianity, at
least,
has to give a strange and convoluted answer in order to
devolve
direct responsibility for the situation from God
himself. This,
however, is never really done with any great degree of
satisfaction, and still leaves many questions
unanswered.
The Eastern perspective on higher consciousness poses
fewer
problems, and is ultimately more satisfactory. It does
not need
to resort to notions of Sin, Judgment, Devil or anything
else
like this in order to give a satisfactory explanation of
what we
perceive. Instead, the cosmic Law of Cause & Effect -
called
Karma - ultimately dictates, in a totally dispassionate,
unbiased
and irrefutable manner, why beings experience what they
do,
either for good or ill.
However, we have to be careful not to "talk theory" all
the time
about this higher perspective, whilst still remaining
firmly
rooted in our own normal consciousness. You see this a
lot in New
Age online forums. It's easy to talk enlightenment, i.e.
talk of
things you have never personally experienced, but it's
quite
something else to live it.
Be gentle with yourself, and gradually work towards the
higher
consciousness perspective. It may not be something that
you even
achieve in this lifetime. However, you can still remind
yourself
of it constantly whenever you look at the world and all
of its
sufferings, and despair of it all.
The world may seem and unfair, and actually BE unfair to
the
personality consciousness. However, every time it seems
so,
remember that you are associating with a view of reality
that is
ultimately confined by your own senses and your own
necessarily
limited understanding.
There is a higher perspective possible. So, as much as
possible,
mentally associate with it. One day,
,
it will become your reality.
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