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Spirituality is important, but we live in a world that is falling apart and that has to be addressed if we are to have time to evolve beyond the ego. Awakening is not just for you; it is for all life on this planet. If we do not bring about a true transformation of our species, we will not have a species and we may take all others with us.
We all have a great responsibility in what takes place in the life of this planet. Not from an ego dream self feeling it is doing some good thing for something else, but seeing we are one with all life and in that seeing we naturally do what is best for all of life.
You hear many spiritual teachers saying we are not responsible, and it is true there is no one to be responsible, but Wisdom has its own action. When one awakens there is left both the seeing through the eye of Wisdom and a mix of the conditioned life. We are no longer lost in that conditioning but it is still there in much of our day to day dealing with life. Just using the words we do is conditioning.
Sometimes teachers will talk about how nothing exists, that it is all a dream, yet they worry over bills, drive a car, eat at least three meals a day and enjoy sex. Nothing exists as the ideas we carry in our minds. That is a dream process in which the ego has its imaginary hold on what seems to be us. Yet, what we perceive, the suchness of things, still exists even if ultimately it is seen to be a holographic dream image. We cannot just ignore what is taking place on our home planet. A major part of the awakening of the mind is to see the facts as they are now. Putting our heads in a spiritual/religious hole and staying blind to what is going on will lead us all to the grave.
Our government and big business greed is killing our environment. With utter disregard for future life, they go on polluting and destroying everything that stands in their way. The government/big business is a perfect example of the ego process. It functions from a constant state of insecurity. This state of insecurity lets them justify anything they wish to do. Control is what the ego wants and it is just as true of governments and corporations. Of course, organized religion is another big business with the same problems of control as do the governments.
It is easy, in most cases, for the government to control the people. They use the same old ego games on us. Put fear in the masses, promise security and the hope of someday being as rich as they are, and people will jump through any hoop you put before them. Use nationalism and wave the flags of any nation and the people will be ready to kill in the name of their country. Business uses this as much as governments. There is no place, where governments leave off and big business begins. They are the same thing. Business controls government, government controls the people.
In these last few years, we have seen how our government has used the insecurity of the people to gain far too much control over us. We have seen our constitution covered over in the name of security. We are far less secure today than we have ever been. We have become far more isolated and have more people from other countries hating us than we ever have. We have seen how our military has not only killed thousands of innocent people but also polluted their land for all time with depleted uranium warheads. All the evil we try to show other countries having is nothing compared to what we have been doing. Yet, we go on acting as though we are always the good guys.
This must end and the only way it can end is for people to truly awaken. Not only environmentally and politically, but also spiritually. We cannot fight governments and make things better. To do so would be to fall into the same war games they have used on everyone else. We need to see the truth and share what we see with all that will listen. However, more important than anything else we need to see the ignorance in ourselves and how we too try to control everything in our lives to feel secure. Governments are just a larger expression of what we all, as ego, carry in ourselves. As we awaken we can no longer be lied to, we will no longer look outside of ourselves for security and we will act out of love. Only then can we call ourselves truly human. Only then will we see our real relationship with all of Life.
This is a very serious matter, more serious than anything else in our lives. It means life or death for us all. If you think I am being too dramatic just take a clear look at what has been happening in the world for the last few hundred years and it has been intensifying lately. You all know what I am saying is true. It is not going to change by itself. Each of us have to see this clearly and out of that seeing action will take place. You may feel helpless in making any changes in the out side world, but you can do something more important within your own being. That is where the heart of the problem lies. You can make a real revolutionary change within. Not you as ego, but by going beyond your own dream you can clearly see the nightmare the ego has brought to the world. It is up to each of us, now.
Melvyn Wartella |
