From the standpoint we have the situation of the world is more or less good. If one lives in wealth and insouciance, it goes without saying that the world goes relatively well. On the other hand if one is poor, indebted, sick or handicapped, one is more likely to find the world not working well. It is even getting worse if one watches the news. There is enough evidence in there to be at least worry about the world. One has the feeling that we will never free ourselves of this mess.
This "revolt" is healthy but it got to make sense because one has barely any control on the world affairs, except by contributing to them in a positive way. Obviously, one might say it will have no effect on things which is not the purpose here on a macro level but rather on a micro level: ours. Each positive thought, each positive gesture one does is like a point of acupuncture one administers on the surface of Earth as if it were a skin, to ease the pain and heal.
Like many people I am horrified by what is going on in Syria, among other places. How have we ended up in this situation and what can be done to remedy this endless and senseless war in a country that not long ago seemed peaceful, economically stable with beautiful cities, etc. No need to give me a lesson in the geopolitics of the Middle East. I am pretty well aware of it with its share of colonialism, imperialism, petroleum, etc. Yet if one wants to bring back peace in this part of the world (or any for that matter) one has to look at the geopolitical history and from there conceive a plan to rewind toward a modus vivendi and a modus operandi; a return to peace if that is what we want.
The same questioning goes on for anything else I guess. What to do? One can choose to participate in activities which goals serve to alleviate the worst aspects of one's life, hence of this society, whichever the cause. One has to remember though that one is more or less responsible about what is going on. Everything is linked one way or the other. At one's level the way one thinks and acts might trigger misfortune and hardship elsewhere, something we often wish to ignore.
The list of acts one can do at one's level is quite long to make things better. In our consuming society, we buy many things which origins might have a great deal of mishaps before arriving on a store shelves, etc. We thus all contribute to the world affairs as they are.
And always one must remember that we are here in transit. The existence on the Other Side can resemble what it is here only in the lowest levels of spirituality. Higher one is climbing the steps of spirituality, farther are the types of absurd situations that makes the daily life down here sometimes excruciating. Situations of conflicts are limited to the lowest part of spirituality. That makes one being a detainee to wish to stay here. Yet we must make the best of it, being the best we can if we don't want to go through the process of being caught in fights of all kinds going on also in the lowest levels of spirituality.
Listen to:
CBC Radio One
Tapestry
Sunday April 3, 2016
Religion doesn't cause religious violence
With Rabbi Sacks
A program by Mary Hynes
And always one must remember that we are here in transit. The existence on the Other Side can resemble what it is here only in the lowest levels of spirituality. Higher one is climbing the steps of spirituality, farther are the types of absurd situations that makes the daily life down here sometimes excruciating. Situations of conflicts are limited to the lowest part of spirituality. That makes one being a detainee to wish to stay here. Yet we must make the best of it, being the best we can if we don't want to go through the process of being caught in fights of all kinds going on also in the lowest levels of spirituality.
Listen to:
CBC Radio One
Tapestry
Sunday April 3, 2016
Religion doesn't cause religious violence
With Rabbi Sacks
A program by Mary Hynes
