Hippy Spirit
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What ever happened to the hippy spirit? What do you mean Charles? The ones who loved all, the ones who never met someone they didn’t like, the ones who cared about the environment, about world peace, helping their neighbors and sharing what ever they had with strangers. What happened to that crowd? People behave according to what they’ve been taught. Until we teach everyone “Peace & Love”, we will still have hatred and war. Some individuals can rise above the quagmire, but usually because they’ve learned to think for themselves.
Buddhists believe that we incarnate on earth to experience the full range of life’s pleasures and treasures as well as it’s selfishness, greed, hatreds etc., and to rise above these base desires. We continue to reincarnate over and over until we get it right.
If that is the case, then we shall probably never find that paradise on this planet, for there is another place for us to go to experience that. This is also the Judeo/Christian/Islamic belief. That is why no one bothers to try to make this place a paradise, since it lies elsewhere. I suppose it would require all these “dead” saints (Buddha, Jesus, Mohamed, etc.) to reappear in person and perform amazing miracles before people will start changing their belief system to allow for us all to be “saved” while still alive on this planet.
I do believe that we have it within our power to bring about paradise, wherever we are. We just need to “realize” it. But since there will always be those who are jealous and don’t understand, people will be crucified one way or another for believing in the power of the human spirit. Raising consciousness is an ongoing process for everyone on the planet. Fortunately we now have the power to do great deeds, unlike ever before. Thanks to our constantly improving communications system, we can learn about and aid others in their time of need. Instead of just helping our “neighbor” next door, we can now help our “neighbors” wherever they may be on this ever shrinking planet. We all live on the same block now, and what one does affects everyone else.
Something that drives me crazy is people that criticize others or gossip about other people. Judging people is society’s way of keeping us apart. Having traveled around the world, I have learned that people are the same everywhere. They have the same needs, hopes and dreams. It is society that has incorporated our genetic coding into social patterns of discrimination. That’s what makes it doubly difficult. We must transcend both our genetic and social programming to achieve a world view in which everyone is equal.
In a world that rewards the fastest, the smartest, the strongest, the luckiest, the wealthiest, the most popular, the most creative, the most devious, the most powerful, the most dangerous, most people follow one of these models. We must find new models that don’t require us to surpass others to achieve our goals. What if achieving our goals was dependent upon helping others achieve theirs? This is a form of selflessness that is required for real personal growth.
So there is definitely a growing potential for humanity to evolve beyond our limited self-imposed boundaries, and embrace our divine potential and save our race and planet from the destruction that is looming. That should be our first great task in the New Enlightenment. Then we can focus on obliterating hunger, disease, and war from our daily lives. Then we can remove intolerance, racism, fascism, pollution, poverty and inequality from our midst. And then, and only then can we aspire to be something greater than the caretakers of this fragile ball in space, and look to the stars to find our truly awesome potential.
Through our conscious acts we can raise the awareness of others so that they may find a purpose for themselves. Then, rather than being a burden to others, they too can contribute a meaningful life in service to humanity. If everyone could adopt this attitude and unconditionally share their energy and love with those around them, we would have a drastically different society. A society without competition, greed, envy, intolerance and violence. In a world where everyone is looking out only for themselves, taking, consuming, polluting without thought to the impact upon others, this becomes the primary mode of human existence, since there are no visible alternatives or role models.
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