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Are you one of ME sometimes thinking what am I doing? Not sure about the aim.. longing for perfection as a means of happiness.. A never ending circle of trying, which ultimately leeds to unhappiness as the result can never be reached.. Did you ever try to listen to your mind and to your thoughts.. I am trying and it makes me sad to realize how wrong and judgemental my thoughts can be and how noisy my mind is.. It drives me almost crazy trying to find stillness in me. I cant find it! Are you on your way to liberation? Can you say "No!" to the myriad forms of egoism and selfishness, of greed, anger, and delusion, which generate and proliferate consumerism, environmental degradation, poverty, racism, sexism, immorality, and social injustice? Are you able to say no to the simplest form of nastyness, e.g lying? Are you seeking for purity for justice for peace for equality? Are you a slave of your mind, never able to find light and true happiness.. Does your mind rely upon things — outer authorities, consumer goods, power, sex, drugs, beliefs, theories, ignorance. Do you look away when your boss degrades your collegaue in front of everyone else? Are you afraid of your shadow? What if you die within the next hour? Will your "things" buy you freedom? Or will you just disappear in the Universe? Do you think it is as simple as that? Have you ever felt free? Are you happy one day and sad the next day because you have not been able to.. Do you belive that your actions influence someone you have never seen? Do you make an effort to think about starving children when your buy your designer shoes... I am not saying I do, but I am thinking aloud asking those questions to myself rather then to you on the world wide web.. I am sharing with you.
So what must be done? I am confused?? Are you?
There are many things to which we must learn to say "No!" Everything stupid, degrading, destructive, and obsessive must be chased away with . In the end, we should be left with only the healthy, the worthy, the just, the necessary, the peaceful, and the truly human (as well as divine).
Most of us live within minutes of some environmental tragedy, merely a blink of the eye if we live in a city or suburb. The forests are disappearing fast. A nearby dam ruins one river and a planned dam threatens another. The local market town is full of noise and the streets are full of plastic. The children eat junk food and toss the foil wrappers into the gutter. Men toss their whiskey bottles. Pesticides are used indiscriminately. You know what is going on around you. Say "No!" to dirty air, dirty water, dirty food, dirty money, dirty minds!!! To apply to social situation is just a start, merely a holding action. The roots of the problems are deeper, that is, within the hearts of US. There isn’t enough space to examine the other harmful emotions: fear, worry, greed for power, competition, lust, boredom, guilt, envy, excitement, etc.
Now there is some fresh air in the room, some peace.
I thank you for reading this, and I am hoping you may want to think about the words everyday. Feel free to share with me..
May all of us find true happiness and may all of say NO! to blindness.
May the truth be your path and wisdom your teacher..
mehtap ak
Some of the above are quoted from www.liberationpark.org.
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