I am going to start this blog with a story I read when I was very young. I don’t know the author, but I acknowledge this unknown author, because I still remember it.
There once was a very popular healer. When his fame reached to the king, king decided to have himself checked for his health problems. So king was told by the healer that he had a king’s disease and it would cost him a million coins to be cured. King thought for a while and said I will get back to you. King though I am a king and can afford the million coins but I would like to know what happens when some one could not afford. So the king disguised and sat in line for hours until he got his turn. The diagnoses was the same but the healer suggested him to bring me these ingredient and I will make you the medicine which will take three months to be ready. He told him where to go which included different places even on the top of the mountain to collect some herbs and a copper coin. After three months king got his medicine for free and was healed. After that needless to say the healer was a royal healer.
When I heard that it takes five hundred thousands dollars a year for the new drug to keep one individual alive this story came to mind. Since I write about the spirituality, I am going to say that I am an idealist and to me it is a shame for the humanity that we are creating a situation that one has to die if he/she can’t afford the cure. It makes me wish that we have those kind of kings running our governments so the equality is imperative.
Logically we are able to see and create the scenarios in our heads so we all are insecure to different degrees.
A billionaire died few years back in Toronto, he left 18.9 billion dollars behind. Why I am mentioning it, because I saw one of his friend was on TV saying that he lived in an old house and was very exited when he bought a freezer full of hot dogs on sale.
A man can only consume so much in his life time. If you really and I mean really learn to live a temporary life, your attitude would be different. In mortality it is not what you save or own, it is what you consume during your life time counts. Somehow we think our time would come but not for a long time, so we live to save not to consume. That is the reason most of the people’s money is in the banks. I can safely say that there is more money in the banks than in the circulation because people all over the world always thinking and feeling about the saving regardless of the need. Why I say feeling because insecurity falls into the feelings. If we all have the urges to save because of the unknown, we all contribute to create poverty, hunger, famine and extreme gap of wealth.
Everyone has been taught by their parents, culture or nation to save, save and save. A mortal life is lived but in deprivation by choice. The business of spirituality does not mix very well with insecurities. If everyone saves not because of the needs but out of the fears of unknown insecurities, eventually the whole humanity would have a problem. Sure it is important have some extra money to leave behind before you die. After balancing the books when you fold, still you have to be useful to the humanity not a burden.
Hare we have people in the grave yards with the tomb stone saying died in 1800. That means human is the only creature on the face of the earth who owns a piece of land long after he/she had died, yet we have homelessness all over the world. If the loved ones would give some money to the poor on the name of the loved one, instead of going to the grave spend money for the flowers, that dead loved one would be still useful to the humanity.
It is not only the duty of the individual to be spiritual, collectively we should be spiritual as well. As I have written before, a society which can take care of its sick, is spiritually healthy. If people die of the avoidable sickness, hunger or poverty that society is spiritually bankrupt regardless of being a political power house. Politics and business is not the only thing a society should run on, compassion, conscience, ethics and love should not only be related to the individual alone.
Unfortunately our religious people are against the universal health care and equal human rights how and why is that possible? where is the spirituality? political arm of the religion is that strong that people would take their human jewellery off for their belonging groups. Compassion, forgiveness, sacrifice and love are the fundamentals of all spiritual systems and they have been taught to us by our religions, but look at the religions where do they stand. Can anyone find these jewels in the history of the religions, we have been killing each other on the name of God for a very long time and it is not for God it is all about the politics of the sense of belonging. If a religion can’t teach spirituality it has no business to be in God’s world. Equal human rights and universal health care is spiritual essence of the humanity. If you stand against these things you need some spirituality in your religions.
Every society regardless or religion or governing system, preaches to save or face the stress of being left alone. Politicians say they would protect and secure the individual but as they come to power there is no promise, so the insecurity is continuous and actually created by our education system.
Spirituality teaches that, the security is in believing and contributing to the humanity. Your fiver is a great asset, because it is given to you by the God. It is not only good for you but it is good for the humanity as well. If you believe as you are told or taught, that you are a worthless sinner, your belief is going to be the dead dog of your insecurities. You would try to secure yourself by the materiel things yet you can’t really deal with the deeply ingrained insecurities, they will show up in your everyday life. Look at your behaviors if you don’t believe anything is done for you from the God and your life is all a failure, just look at the abilities you hold inside they are all there because of the fiver and the oxygen you have been blessed with. Being happy or unhappy is strongly related with the comparison. If you want to compare, always compare with both sides to be fare. With the people whom are better than you for the inspiration and the people whom are worse off than you for the appreciation. ( Read the river of time and ladder of horizon).