Saturday, August 28, 2021

The problem of modern life is that most people's physical and emotional energy does not find full expression in their lifetime.

People in our civilized society carry an enormous amount of unexpressed emotions.  If we never let those emotions find their full expression, then their stagnate energy can be deeply damaging to one's health and well-being.  This accounts for the huge upswings of depression and well being across the world.  It is acknowledged that one out every five Americans suffer a mental ailment at some point in their lives. The problem is that civilized society regards the uninhibited expression of emotion as a sign of weakness or a lack of sophistication.  This kind of emotional suppression can and will create havoc within the human system, and humans the world over will never find full expression for their emotions.  Most people have fears about their love, their joy, their grief, just about everything.  For example, to laugh loudly is a problem, it is seen as inappropriate.  We have set up a deeply restrictive culture for ourselves. 

The level of activity in modern life has decreased drastically because people do not use their body the way they used to.  If this unused energy is made to remain stagnant within our bodies, it could become a causative factor of disease.  It seems our modern mind is going through a unique kind of neurosis.  Now that we have become so inactive, we are suffering the effects of such inactivity; by becoming anxious and uneasy.  This is mainly because of trapped physical energy. In comparison, you will find that those people who are committed to some form of intense physical exercise are at a different level of balance and peace and are much less entangled in physical drives.  This is because at least one aspect of the person has found full expression. 

Trapped energy, can also cause restlessness and agitation, which accounts for the chronic unease and disquiet that plagues the modern world.  You may have noticed that the very way people sit and stand reveals an absence of ease.  They may have brought a practiced gracefulness to there movements, but their unease remains.  If you take away the unease in your movement, it shifts inward to another dimension, where it is easy for it to find a new expression.  In other words, it will billed back into your energy.  In time, this disquiet on the level of energy manifests as disease.

An inability to be joyful by your own nature can make the simplest issues in life seem like a highly complex problems.  The reason the simple things----like being peaceful, joyful, loving----become ultimate aspirations is that people are living without paying attention to the life process. The level of inhibition that, people live with is truly amazing.  It is responsible for several diseases---both physical and psychological, that we see around us.  An inability to be joyful by your own nature can make the simplest issues in life seem like highly complex problems.  Right now being peaceful and joyful is made out to be the most significant problem in human existence.  In pursuit of human happiness, we are ripping the planet apart.  The reason the simple things--like being peaceful, joyful, loving---have become ultimate aspirations is that people are living without paying attention to the life process. When most people say "life," they mean the accessories of life--their work, their family, their relationships, the homes they live in, the cars they drive, the clothes they wear, or the gods they pray to.  The moment you make this fundamental mistake of identifying something that is not you as yourself, life becomes an unnecessary struggle.  The foundations of peace and bliss are not about attending to the external realities of your life, but in accessing and organizing the the inner nature of your being. 

Your are capable of experiencing only that which is within the boundaries of your sensation.  But if you throw the boundary of your sensation out in an expanded form, you can sit here and experience everyone as yourself.  You can stretch it further and experience the very cosmos as you experience your own body.  The trick is to work on being conscience, every day, in every way.

                                 Thank you Sadhguru.  Be good, do good. 

                                                        Louis DiVirgilio              

        

Tuesday, August 3, 2021

The lost cord of modern civilization is forgetfulness of universal brotherhood and sisterhood.

The secret of conflict is in the existing degrees of ignorance, selfishness, and lack of altruism----the noblest emotion that can possibly enter the heart.   It is only in altruism, in thinking of others, in putting others before ourselves, that we forget ourselves, and in the forgetting lost the pains and sorrows and the little happiness that we cling on to and call ourselves.  

You should clearly see that the only pathway to wisdom and universal peace is putting the whole before the insignificant, the many before yourself;  and therefore living in the universal life instead of living only within your own small shadow.  There we have the secret of living a universal life, and it is precisely this secret that the modern world has forgotten.  It has forgotten that in self-forgetfulness is greatness, peace and happiness; that our lack of peace and our unhappiness come from our little pettiness's and worries close to us; for these are anxieties and hatreds gnawing at the very fiber of our inner being, and then we suffer, we are hurt, and we raise our eyes to heaven or to the gods, and exclaim; "Why has this happened to me, to us?  What have I done ?  What have we done?"  Yet to obey the merest cognizance of spiritual and natural law should tell us that everything that happens in the great and in the small happens according to divine law; and that misery and unhappiness and conflict and wretchedness and poverty and all the array of accompanying ills, arise out of negligence to obey the cosmic law. 

Nature is fundamentally spiritual, and therefore is ruled by law, and therefore has compensation for meritorious conduct and retribution for the unmeritorious; and that these two, the compensation and retribution, are as infallible as is that comic law itself, for they are but the expression of it.  When a man or woman allows these wondrous and yet so simple thoughts to sink into there consciousness so that they become a part of the very fiber of there being, no longer will they willfully injure another.  It is no longer within his or her's character to do so. They have drawn himself out of the mud, and seen the golden sunshine.  They recognizes that fundamentally all is one, all beings are one , and that the unit is as important as the whole, and that the whole is as important as the unit; and that the unit within the whole is infinitely more important than the unit, single and alone.  By the units themselves thinking in this way, the cosmic rule of harmony is preserved unto infinity. 

That is what we have lost; the conviction that we shall meet compensation or retribution for our thoughts and for our feeling; that good will infallibly come to us if we sow good and think and feel right, and sow the seeds of justice and honor and probity and decency in our conduct towards all men and women; all others, not just "my" friends---all.  For the cosmos is a unity and knows no divisions or human separations.  This is what we have lost.  This is where we fail.  This is the secret of all human conflict.  Because of the very complex character of modern civilization, any man or women with a heart in the right place, can solve such complex questions because they are illuminated by the divine within them, if they allow their heart to speak. Then their judgment is virtually infallible.  The fact is, we of European  and American decent have been cowards entirely too long, always wanting to put the fault on someone else. so we have erected a pure figment of our imagination, and we speak of it as Christ Jesus, and on his shoulders lay all our sins; and at the end we shall be washed white in the blood of the lamb, if only we believe. How about those who have suffered under our evil doing?  Because I am saved, does that help them?  How about those whom I in my stupid, ignorant and evil past perhaps have given a shove downwards instead of helping to lift upwards.  Can't you see that it is wrong?  Don't you see that those ideas are a complete reversal of a cosmic philosophy?  That it is not so important what happens to the unit; the greater is what happens to the endless, toiling, hoping, working suffering multitudes.

We must retrain ourselves with the priority of universal brotherhood and sisterhood, and march to the beat of altruistic, cosmic principles. As Spock would say, sacrifice the needs of the one for the many.     

                      Thank you G. D. P.  One truth many paths.  Be good, do good.  

                                                       Louis DiVirgilio