Why is it so important to us?
It seems we would rather coo over a new born human being that is going to have a rather spoilt and predetermined life than to spend our attention on matters as to why we kill each other in the name of religion, nation, politics and social grouping.
Have we already made the mistake of giving the new born baby power that at the moment it knows nothing about? It will have privilege that many do not get and yet we celebrate this singling out rather than understand the implications of putting one human being above many others. Can we not see that to confer such power and privilege on one individual is a confirmation of the destructive mess man has created so far in this world?
Rather than to look into our own reasons for creating this mess we swoon around a new baby boy who materially will want for nothing but psychologically will probably have all the same conflicts as you and I.
In a couple of weeks the mad clamour and repetitive information will have subsided but only to be replaced by the next frenzy.
Why are we so fickle? Where is the understanding and real intelligence of why we behave this way with our adulation of celebrity and nationalism. Where is the need to see how and why we cause our conflicts and to give our attention to eradicating the destructive behaviour of man that has gone on for millennia.
Surely it is our politics, nationalism, religion and social conditioning that separates us and pits person against person, causes war and internal as well as external conflict both within ourselves and between all the groups and sub groups.
Seeing all this, and please do not take my word for it, why do these groupings continue to exist? Is there anything beyond our own selfish, empty vested interests keeping us in our own little grouping and therefore keeping us in conflict with ourselves and others?
Is there a real inward transformation that can take place within the individual when we really understand what we are doing rather than the feeble excuses we offer ourselves for carrying on without observing ones own behaviour at the deepest level?
It would seem to me we like to feel we belong to the group we are in so we perpetuate its conditioning which enslaves us even more to the group rather give us freedom. Enslavement causes conflict. So for a sense of belonging which we think gives us security we sacrifice understanding, intelligence and truth. Why is belonging, security and comfort so important when in return we get conflict and misery in ourselves and the in the world?
What are we perceiving we lack in order to invent psychological needs? Do we understand our needs at the deepest level? Have we really observed ourselves, our desire for security and to be without fear? Have we asked why we have these needs and watched passively and attentively their movement? Is there a way without these needs that we see cause such conflict within and without us?
You may find that these needs come from the 'me' at the centre, they are 'I' centric. If so, can the individual go beyond that or is the individual enslaved forever in the 'I' of the self putting its own need for psychological safety uppermost and therefore continuing the misery we see all around?
When you see something wrong, in a flash, without the 'me', without thought, which is conditioning, memory and the past, you are acting with perception which is not tainted with previous experience. It is only when one thinks about what one sees it becomes a conditioned response according to the 'I' and the past.
We have come a long way from asking why a new baby should receive such prominence and I ask if you would like to, that you truly look into you own self for the understanding that may go beyond the self, but first we have understood ourselves.
