This discussion is about individual faith, since it could mean different things to different people, level of faith can vary. To me when it comes to God and spirituality faith is not something can easily be denied. In religious settings people may openly talk about faith but unfortunately power of politics of sense of belonging can be so overwhelming that for most people it over rides everything including their faith. They may say I believe in God and spirituality but when it comes to the politics of their belonging groups they can easily be influenced to commit spiritual crimes in the name of their belonging groups.
My simple motto is that if you don’t know about something put it in the metaphoric basket of unknowns. Interestingly as human beings we have some sense of belonging related political issues and we don’t like to accept that we or our ancestors don’t know every thing. Not accepting that our knowledge is incomplete can not only make us end up not knowing but proven wrong as groups. If we keep using our egotistic assumptions they may end up as political lies and twisted truths. In the scientific world things have to be clearly and logically explained otherwise their is high chance to be debunked. Since as human beings we individually and collectively are evolving there is no knowledge of us can stand still. If as an individually we don’t know something we can go and ask the leader who can clear our concerns by explaining our collective and accepted truth. Unfortunately our ignorance is not limited to us as individual we collectively can ignore the facts because of the politics of our sense of belonging. Admitting and saying that I don’t know is not as humiliating as being proven wrong collectively so we continue to claim that our knowledge is correct. Whether it is scientifically proven wrong or not is not the case but its all because of our ancestors said so. Now the question is that why do we carry on fighting egotistically even if we have been changing and evolving all throughout our history. You can fight over a piece of land even collectively, it would be on the solid ground or over a physical reality, but when you fight and kill each other over who is right about the stuff beyond our cliff of faith. It all goes into fighting over our non physical realities. Having differences of opinions in the areas of human life while we are alive can be acceptable but killing each other over the stuff beyond the cliff of faith does not make any sense at the least spiritually. Politically, well that is a whole different ball game of our religions. Even accepting that it is not spiritual should be good enough for the individual to become moderate in their belief systems. How can the religion stand that so they bring politics of belonging to override spirituality. They can twist and turn it all to the point that it becomes an accepted truth for the belonging individuals. It is happening and eventually we are going to be evolved enough to see the political taints of our belief systems. Individually as a CEO we can see it all but speaking against our own belief systems is an other thing for us individually.
If you like to spend your life following the foot prints your ancestors left or your Mullah, Priest or Rabi preach to you, do so but don’t envy or get upset about the people who don’t follow the path you are on. Following the path of your foot prints left by your ancestors has been proven prejudicial and discriminatory in the era of equal human rights so in today’s world continuously following to be prejudiced and discriminatory is not cutting it .
Thinking meanings of prejudice and discrimination ends on our racism would simply be wrong because it goes deep into one’s belief system as well. Learning and literally feeling under the hormonal influences that your ancestors being right and others being wrong is actually based on the politics of sense of belonging to your respected groups. Assuming us being right and them being wrong with an evolving knowledge would be a logical nightmare.
If you think right and wrong would be known after you die that would be wrong at two fronts. First of all you will have to die first and second when you don’t know you don’t kill each other over your unknowns. You could be spending your living years where you can actually make the difference for yourself but believing your path is exclusively right means you are living with prejudice and discrimination. If you look at it spiritually that is not to be proud of because it is actually a spiritual flaw. Remember you can’t get God involved in your assumptions. If it is spiritually wrong how are you going to justify that when your atom of autonomy sitting right within you, judging everything you do.
Putting all the eggs of right and wrong in the basket of life after death or the cliff. As I say what is after the cliff is not proven one hundred percent. Not by any religion nor by any other system of our knowledge like science. I am not trying to sew a seed of doubt in anyone’s individual faith but I am trying people to stop killing each other over the scenarios of life after death. Most politically charged or successful thing religions have in common is creating fear in the hearts of human beings especially they know people are terrified of being of the mortal. They wanted individual to be fearful, weak, vulnerable, irrelevant, unimportant and even feel guilty of sins whether they have committed them or not. With lack of self-esteem politically it is easier to control individuals. It has worked in the past so our politically savvy people still use those strategies. If you individually still live in your past and you are passionate about the knowledge of your belonging groups, you wan to latch on to anything what is bigger and stronger than you simply to feel secure. Whether the help is visible or invisible your weaknesses will make them even greater. Your loyalties over your personal spirituality is a clear sign of your internal conflicts. You would rather be prejudicial and discriminatory politically than at peace with your atom of autonomy. Understanding yourself who and what you really are can help you to deal with your political sense of belonging from within.
If you believe God lives through you physically you would look at others as yourself but if you are taught you are good and others are bad you have learned prejudice and discrimination yet the worse thing is that you believe God almighty is just like you as well. I put God in spiritually higher place than that so to me prejudice and discrimination is a religious but not a spiritual thing.
Look at the physically functioning God then look at the good people helping others in your opposing groups, what do you see? If you can’t see God working in all human societies, you are blinded by the political side of your religion. To me God and spirituality are physically functioning in all human societies. Meaning all ancestral foot prints lead to the cliff of faith. When you put each other down, call your group good and Godly yet the others bad and evil, it is clearly political so learn to read up about yourself and your belonging group by your spiritual self.
You can nit pick and compare your belonging groups and believe your way is the right way and expect everything is going to be cleared out by God after you die but you keep living with the politics of prejudice and discrimination. That means spiritually you have it wrong. For instance if you pronounce God’s name wrong because it was in different language, it would always come to your intention because God is sitting right within you as your atom of autonomy so it is not a big deal but if you commit a spiritual crime like being prejudicial and discriminatory against God’s people even in your deeply private thoughts your atom of autonomy knows it all. Remember you don’t have to die to find out about your rights and wrongs if you listen to your atom of autonomy. How does your atom of autonomy lets you know about the right and wrong within your living years? If you do to someone what you don’t like done to you or to your loved ones simply it is a spiritual crime. Especially if you don’t want to be on the receiving end of it prejudice and discrimination you should think how your atom of autonomy would take it yet you commit this crime willy Nelly in the name of your belonging groups. Remember every right and wrong needs your physicality so it is not about the life after the death but it is all about your living years. Your atom of autonomy easily let’s you know if you are in tune with it. If you ask about the guilt related invisible pain it is real just ask the war veterans.
PICK A RELIGION, FOLLOW THEIR FOOTPRINTS RELATED PATH, WITHOUT EVEN GOING IN DETAIL OF DIFFERENCES YOU WILL END UP ON THIS METAPHORIC CLIFF OF FAITH WHERE FOOT PRINTS VANISH. THIS IS WHERE IT MATTERS THE MOST, HOW YOU HAVE LIVED YOUR PERSONAL LIFE AND YES THAT IS REGARDLESS OF ANY RELIGIOUS FAITH. IT ALL BOILS DOWN TO SPIRITUALITY NOT TO THE POLITICS OF BELONGING GROUPS. SINCE IT IS BETWEEN GOD AND THE INDIVIDUAL EXCLUSIVELY, YOU PERSONALLY WILL HAVE TO EITHER JUMP IN WITH THE HOPE TO FIND WHATEVER YOUR RELIGION PREACHED TO YOU OR CREATE YOUR OWN FOOT PRINTS BY MAKING SENSE OF IT ALL. SPIRITUALLY IF YOU ARE RECIPROCATING AND ARE IN SYNC WITH YOUR ATOM OF AUTONOMY WITHIN YOU HAVE NOTHINGS TO WORRY ABOUT. NOT ABOUT WHAT RELIGION YOU ARE BORN IN, IMPRESSED OR ARE ATTRACTED TO OR EVEN ARE IN DOUBT OF WHAT IS AFTER THE CLIFF OF FAITH. YOU HAVE TO THINK ABOUT THE MAIN THING, AND YES THAT IS YOUR RECIPROCATION DURING YOUR LIVING YEARS. YOU HAVE DONE YOUR JOB YOU WERE ASSIGNED TO, IN YOUR LIVING YEARS. IF RECIPROCATION IS WHAT IS ALL ABOUT THEN UNDERSTANDING WOULD BE A BIG PLUS FOR YOU TO DEAL WITH YOUR FEAR AND LACK OF FAITH ABOUT THE CLIFF OF FAITH. REMEMBER IT IS NOT YOUR BOWING DOWN TO GOD OR FASTING IT IS ALL ABOUT YOUR PHYSICAL ACTIONS TURNING SPIRITUALITY INTO PHYSICAL ACTIONS TO HELP THE NEEDY EVERYTHING ELSE IS JUST TO MAKE YOU IRRELEVANT SO YOU CAN BE CONTROLLED POLITICALLY. WHAT HAPPENS TO YOU INSIDE IS NOT A PROBLEM FOR THE BELONGING GROUPS BUT IT IS UP TO YOU HOW YOU DEAL WITH YOUR MORTAL LIFE. IF YOUR SENSE OF BELONGING AND SENSE OF FREEDOM IS OUT OF SYNC YOU COULD BE IN TROUBLE FROM WITHIN SO IT IS ESSENTIAL FOR YOU TO BECOME A CEO AND ASSUME YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES.
When we disrespect, biker, argue, fight and kill each other over our differences, individual faith usually is in question. Some of us literally put everything on God and believe blindly but still don’t agree to live with each others differences. Some of us don’t even believe in anything but shamelessly carry on living with the help of the unknowns without acknowledgement. They don’t even bother to logically put things together to make sense out of their life. For instance we have absolutely no control on our life giving oxygen and the functioning of the most complex organisms like our body. Here we are constantly functioning until the day we die but we don’t think or respect the help we can’t live without. Ever wonder why? If you don’t even believe in God how would you know the purpose of your life? Believe me we are not like other creatures we don’t just breath, eat, shit, reproduce, get sick, old and die. Converting good and bad into physicality is a major job for a major player, but that major player is still at the mercy and within the control of our unknown realities.
Proof is in the pudding we can’t just will our way to live, otherwise none of us would die. Some of us don’t even give a second thought to acknowledge our blessings of being alive or life giving oxygen which we can’t survive without. Without spirituality there can’t be a sense of responsibility of reciprocation yet we have a lot of people in all nations and religions who believe giving or paying taxes is not their responsibility. They literally believe God would take care of the needy but they don’t bother asking the question how are the things get done by God. Everything we do has help of the unknown but we still think we are doing everything. Especially when it comes to answering the question of coming to life and its purpose. Non faithful answer would be that we are just a random fluke of life and death which has no purpose or meanings, but with faith there are meanings, and yes purpose of our life is the duty of reciprocation and that is converting spirituality into physical actions.
To me faith is as it means, if there is help for me to breath and even exist, that thought alone should make me humble. Personally I should have some kind of faith and trust in that unknown I openly call God. Since there are people who believe there is no God so logically they should not have faith in anything. Yet looking at their life critically you will see that they do have faith. They don’t think twice about their ability to take that next breath or plan their day or even life yet trusting and having no doubt in the supply line of the oxygen they take in. Otherwise they would die of the stress coming from the hopelessness and uncertainty. Do you think that is happening? Just look around and even within yourself to find spirituality related problems. If you think you suffer from spiritual deficiencies related physical, mental and emotional health find that missing faith, which can have the power to give you hope and optimism. No I am not talking about the faith our political religions preach about.
Since I don’t believe a religion or related God should have any kind of political agenda, I would go for the love of faith not for the fear or greed of carrot and stick philosophy. That means do it, not for heaven or hell but for the duty of reciprocation as a physical God to spiritual God. Meaning you are not an irrelevant, unimportant, meaningless or a born sinner you are the big and main kahuna yourself regardless of what you have been told or preached. Always remember spiritually good or even our bad things and our thoughts don’t just happen without your physical hands, shoulders and back. Sure you can believe in miracles but don’t just bet or put all your eggs in that basket. You can be a reasonably spiritual individual who knows their placings in the grand scheme of life, you just have to become a CEO of your life.
Since we all think differently we can have our opinions but living a life with the help yet denying the source of your help is actually denying certain unknown realities of faith with arrogance. It is not what is, but it always is how you look at it, and what faith means to you? If you openly deny the help itself, how can you even understand the spiritual responsibilities of reciprocation? If you do understand reciprocation you already know spirituality. One does not have to be a religious person to be spiritual because spirituality is universal in humanity yet there are a whole lot of religious beliefs so regardless of being religious or not anyone can be spiritual.
Religions and nationalism may have monopoly on politics of sense of belonging but they can’t make all of their followers good people so spirituality is not in anyone’s control or anyone has monopoly over it.
We have been claiming that our knowledge is better and complete yet we keep evolving to learn more and more, so believing other people who don’t believe like us are bad or inferior to us is absurdity. Just like good things of spirituality are universal our arrogance is one of the universal bad thing in humanity.
Our ancestors were smart enough according to their era but believed in their group superiority. Not that is a rare thing in today’s world but still we should not take pride in being prejudiced and discriminatory because it is our moral obligation not to deny anyone their equal human rights.
We have evolved from our bush and cave times where we use to kill each other just for the reason of belonging to different groups. As we have evolved we made different communities, cities, nations and religions with all the marked boundaries. Today we evolving to make our melting pot societies with thriving equal human rights. Regardless of hard journey of civilization or I should say evolution, we just can’t get around of killing each other. Just look around and see you will still find those people who use the same bush and cave times philosophy. We claim that we are evolved and civilized yet we still suffer from our prejudice and discrimination related killings as we did in the bush and cave times so did we really evolve or are we going in circles of politics of belonging?
Why can’t we stop killing each other to take that next step of evolution? Why our politics of sense of belonging to our group is that powerful? It is all about what goes on within the individual. If we accept our evolutionary nature, learn to know our mortality, become a CEO of our lives, practice spirituality related equal human rights deep into our hearts individually we can work together as human beings to embrace humanity as a whole.
Remember our potential is even with evolving potential so where are we going and what can we do with all that? Its just like ocean and space all rolled up in one within single cell or I should say one single human being. Now look at our politics of sense of belonging which puts us in a pond with the boundaries to make us feel exactly the opposite what God had meant for human individual.
Religions do claim that we are in God’s image but when it comes to practical life they put us down so far and put God and Devil so far ahead of us that we ourselves make ourselves insignificant and irrelevant part of bigger picture. If we believe everything what religions have been saying we would all feel small, inferior and even sinner with no self-esteem so we have been brain washed and trained to be controlled for so long that we need courage to even question it all.
They resist everything a rule breaker comes up with but shamelessly follow and use those technologies and medicines to live modern day life. Yet interestingly still put down the people who don’t believe in their religion. Their politics of sense of belonging to groups shouts so loudly that a questioning individuals voice has been suppressed at all cost yes even to kill people just because of the political loyalties to their belonging groups. Politics of sense of belonging not only make them dance against spirituality but makes them hypocrites as well.
On the other hand if you look at success of western societies, you will see that they have been encouraging and promising better life to attract talent from all over the world for centuries. That made them far more sophisticated and advanced yet they still can’t overcome the turmoil related to prejudice and discrimination in their populations.
Personally I believe no one can be better than the others just because of belonging to certain group, race, gender, color of skin, nation or religious beliefs. Spiritually looking at this explains that each and everyone of us carry an atom of autonomy within from before birth, we may look different but literally we are all one organism like a coral reef. Physically we all are made of the same things, (ASK A SCIENTIST) we are born the same way, (ASK A DOCTOR), we all need to eat food to live, we need to sleep to function, we reproduce, get sick, old and die the same way so what is the problem in adopting to a spiritual thing like equal human rights? Our problems are simply related to our politics of sense of belonging to our groups.
Regardless of the good education of religion to be a good person there is a disconnection because they sure preach about compassion and all the good and spiritual things but in practical life they are the worst enemies of each other. They literally separated com from the passion. They bring God to boost their believers with passion and both God and individual gets politically used. They kill each other with passionate wars yet preach compassion. Politics of belonging to groups has infiltrated into all aspects of human individual.
The real answer to our politics of belonging is to strengthen the individual so in today’s societies we can have our modern day solutions. Since equal human rights work against prejudice and discrimination one has to become a CEO to be able to even understand the cause of our problems. Equal human rights make perfect spiritual sense because you and your loved ones personally don’t want to be on the receiving end of prejudice and discrimination. If you are spiritually inept you will look at life as a creature who is still in the bush and cave time, marking territories and killing each other for resources if that is still your game, understand yourself as an evolving entity and evolve for God sake.
Personally how far have you been evolved on the scale of spirituality? Answer yourself honestly because you do have that ability within you. Your atom of autonomy is sitting right within you a powerful entity but if you are deeply insecure because of thousands of years brain washing, your politics of sense of belonging can override everything you think. That potentially can take you to a place where you will have clashing forces within you. Not a good place to be for a mortal being who has a short period to live.
Regardless of which side dominates you, you would end up in trouble if you don’t become a CEO of your life. Since you have the potential to go either way, if you suppress your atom of autonomy you would end up being a puppet for your belonging group but at odds with your atom of autonomy. That atom of autonomy is like God sitting within you so going against God would not be a good place to be. If you become a CEO by liberating yourself from the politics of belonging to your groups you can join and accept humanity as a whole. That is the worst nightmare for the political groups because they lose political powers and become irrelevant themselves. Make sure to understand it is not God who made you insignificant, irrelevant, unimportant and make you become a born sinner. It is the other human beings who made you lose your self-esteem so you can be politically controlled.
In your real reality you are the third equation of the whole spiritual picture. Any good and bad thought can’t be good or bad until it becomes a physical action. Remember human individual is the responsible one who gets it done. We all carry atom of autonomy related free will, which makes us choose to do good or bad. If you are not there God and Devil lose their physical ability to help or hurt, so take a pride in being that important. Evolve spiritually and become a CEO so you don’t get used politically by other human beings to do Devilish things. Sure your belonging group would back you up even if you commit spiritual crimes in their name and yes even if your belonging group is your religion.
People with political interests would not want you to become a CEO and reach your evolving potential. They want to keep you trapped into a pond philosophy which keeps weaker individuals seeking visible boundaries. Remember they are artificially created for you to feel secure but your sense of security is related to your imagination which cuts both ways it can trap you and make you yourself to stop your expending potential or it can liberate you to believe that there is life beyond those boundaries. It will all come down to you to decide depending on how you use your faith and imagination.
A spiritually weaker individual can’t become a CEO of their life so being weak would always force the individual to seek security by attaching to belonging groups. Not only you seek security because of being insecure, your self-esteem would have taken a hit as well so lower the self-esteem higher the desire to belong to something majestic. Believing in God is one thing but believing in other human beings as security is plain absurdity because they can’t even be secure for themselves. How can they provide to others what they don’t even have for themselves. Politics of our sense of belonging is a living breathing example. You kill and die for other human beings yet in the name of God. Give your head a shake because politics and spirituality simply don’t mix. Usually religions get God involved in human emotional actions just to actually give a bad name to God.
If you believe that you belong to the best group of people it literally means that you believe you are better than others just because of belonging. Think about it with clear head and see where your prejudice and discrimination coming from. One can only be better by building a good spiritual character through reciprocation. I personally don’t believe believing in any one particular religion is the key to eternal heaven. It is all about your personal spirituality related physical action based reciprocation.
If you belong to a family of a prophet does not give you a license to be good. Your physical actions are the only thing that has the power to make you good or bad person so if you want to talk about heaven talk about the one you have at hand while you are living and breathing. Where you are still in charge of your actions and choices. If you are creating hell for others you are setting yourself up for hell. If you are creating heaven while you are in your living years you have nothing to worry about either one of them the one in living years or after death.
You can say I am always suffering in this life because of my desires are never fulfilled and my life is a failure. Since I suffered in living years I should go to heaven after I die a good excuse for hope and optimism yet not good enough. Personally I believe there is nothing wrong having a hopeful scenario about after life but if you are suffering because of you wanting too much and not putting matching efforts what it takes. Remember God had done Godly job by providing you a functioning body and free oxygen, now it is up to you, how you create your happiness by counting your blessings. You are personally responsible for the reasons of you being unhappy. A while back I wrote a blog about the ladder of horizon where I discussed how we compare with others just to create or lose our contentment. Idea was to look up to the people above on the ladder for inspiration and look below you for appreciation. If you are building a habit of being unhappy that means even if you end up going to heaven, you may still be unhappy. That literally means if you don’t compare yourself with both sides even God would not be able to make you happy.
Spiritual awareness makes you think to be thankful for the things already provided to you, like oxygen and functioning body. Make sure to be appreciative of your blessings instead of criticizing about everything you have. Like I am not rich, I am not strong, I am too fat, too thin, too short or even not so good looking or lucky. Always remember dissatisfaction is ingrained in our DNA because of our evolving nature. We have to keep evolving but as an individual who has free will and a potential CEO status we all have a major problem with our mortality. Harnessing all the unhealthy imagination related what ifs is not easy especially in modern day living so assuming the duties of a CEO is in order.
Becoming a CEO can help us to look at life with a healthy out look otherwise we have the potential to spend our whole allotted time on a plate farm waiting for the train which never comes. (Back to the pond philosophy).
Human beings have proven over and over that there is life beyond our insecurity related boundaries interestingly it was always done by the people who did not accept to live within accepted boundaries.
From flat earth to space and round earth, to land beyond oceanic horizons to advances in our medicine like genetic code breakdown or stem cell or even test tube babies, to science and technology and everything in between. Evolution has been a journey which is just a start, so where are we going? Only time will tell but the way we treat each other with prejudice and discrimination would be looked down by all our coming generations.
Today we know the path of storms, we prepare and save lives so we don’t have to throw virgins over the cliffs just because our religious leaders say God is mad at us. Even this Corona Virus has brought humanity on its knees but most people regardless of religious back ground are still looking at our scientists for answers. No matter what goes on and how far we have evolved still we kill each other over our prejudiced and discriminatory politics of belonging groups. Just look at our wars even Corona virus a common enemy which did not discriminate anyone, could not unite us to the point that we could stop killing each other in the name of our belonging groups. After all that I can safely say that our work to evolve by no means is done. Not only we have to learn to work together we have to deal with the politics of sense of belonging. We individually have to get out of our ponds and learn to belong to ocean of humanity so we can bring equal human rights to over come the politics of our belonging groups. If we let our groups like race, gender, nations or religions decide for us they have not done it in thousands of years. Would you wait for another two thousand years for humanity to solve its social problems? Well personally I don’t have that much time left so I have to take all this off my chest and say what I believe is correct.
As an individual who is born in a scientifically, and technologically advance era. I deeply feel responsible to critically think and look at everything we do individually. I encourage and suggest everyone to do that as well because steaks are way too high to merge our ancestral knowledge related memories and constantly evolving war weaponry. With our modern day weaponry the potential to kill each other over our incomplete and politically divisive knowledge should not be acceptable.
We already have hundreds of nations with different races, colors, even religions and their sects. Our politics of sense of belonging in front and passionate loyalties of religions in the back ground we ourselves are heading towards nuclear conflicts to create the predicted day of judgment.
Let’s look at our old and politically biased knowledge with clear eyes. With equal human rights flourishing all over the world we are individually being torn apart between sense of belonging to our groups and someone asking for equal human rights.
Newer and modern day questions of humanity are hard to answer by the individual who is under the influences of politics of belonging. If your sense of belonging has you under its influences but some how you individually end up on the receiving end of prejudice and discrimination. You would love to have equal human rights, not only for yourself but for your children as well. No one desire to be treated as second class citizen just because of their back ground, belief systems or color of the skin.
We all need to be able to question everything because as humanity we have evolved and are evolving rapidly especially in last fifty or sixty years. Our outdated constitutional or religious rule do not comply or are not practical anymore according to the progress or evolution of the society. Sure not all individuals evolve at the same rate but as societies we should get our act together before its too late.
What should be done with that? Should we let people fight and rob each others love as they have been doing with their ancestral knowledge. Today’s era belong to equal human rights so we can’t be fighting and killing each other over our ancestry related prejudicial and discriminatory education? We should simply enforce equal human rights as rule of law in all over the world. Remember it is not the demands of time would have to change, it is our previously popular rules which are not so popular anymore will have to change. If you like to keep the status as it was thousands of years ago you are the one who is going to be in trouble from within yourself because you can’t be happy if things don’t go your way.
For instance our politics of sense of belonging calls for prejudicial and discriminatory behavior against each other but that does not match or suit with our equal human rights era especially with our war weaponry we all have to sober up from the alcohol of sense of belonging to our groups. Remember in today era if you are a racist, religious extremist or a nationalist you are considered prejudicial and discriminatory individual. Which is not and should not be considered a complement for modern day human beings.
Because of our evolutionary nature evolution has been, is and will always be a fact of humanity. Especially in today’s era if you look at our science, technology, medicine and even social liberation, no one in the right mind can deny these realities. If you want to or you choose to stay hundreds and even thousands of years behind, do so but don’t expect everyone else should or must stay with you.
Today you just can’t kill your way to the top like it has been done in the past. In today’s world if you try to force your ancestral ways of living on others you will be met with the force you can’t bare especially when your own kids and family would stand against you.
It would be like you try to put all the worms back in the can but you literally just can’t. You try to put one in, the other one escapes. Unfortunately your choices can create not only external hardship for you and others, chances are you may suffer in other known and unknown areas as well. Remember what goes on within yourself can eat you alive. If you are a controlling individual and don’t like changes around you, life can become hard. Especially when even your family and friends are changing with time yet you have no control over them. The feelings from within can make you angry and frustrated all the time so spare some energy for living life with compassion and acceptance.
We all individually need to take charge of our thoughts related emotional health. Long story short in the nut shell what I am trying to say is to understand your placings as a CEO so do your share to keep your mental, emotional, physical and spiritual health in check and remove your self created harms before you seek help.
Religious rules, traditions, customs and rituals can be important to you but as a mortal your health should supersede everything. It should be a personal priority because if you are not well, you simply can’t be happy and if you are not healthy and happy your religion has not and is not doing its job in helping you in the manors it should help.
If mortality is a fact of human life, our personal input for the quality of life is our choice as well. That means we individually can choose or make choices, how to live our individual and mortal life. If faith can help the individual to live a mortal life with some spirituality related hope and optimism then why not. In the end of the day creating problems by following prejudicial and discriminatory rules of certain group, whether it is a religious extreme, nationalism or racism it is a choice and choice is a choice no matter how you look at it.
Sure our religions talk about unquestionable and blind faith but our spirituality related religious education usually gets buried under the politics of belonging to our groups. Interestingly even our prophets could not stay clear of that group politics because they preached for and against philosophy they did not accept humanity as a whole. So what does it really mean? It means even God almighty takes a back seat when it comes to the politics of our belonging groups. Whether it is about our race, nation or religions or their sects their politics calls for the group domination over everyone else.
Regardless of whatever I say you still can benefit from religious education because it does preaches and talks about spiritual jewelry like compassion, forgiveness, sacrifice, helping the needy and above all it talks about hope and optimism. Unfortunately the real and powerful problem is again politics of sense of belonging to our groups. Our sympathies and loyalties are limited to our groups because we have been taught at our tender age to be loyal to our groups. We have been and are still taught a lot more about the politics of belonging than real spirituality.
God and spirituality preaches everything universal and should not be limited to a group of people. If we look at life according to any one particular religious point of view it teaches prejudice and discrimination not only against other groups but against the followers who don’t follow as well. That means even God and spirituality becomes politically tainted which I don’t believe is the real God or real spirituality.
This is where I find things have gone wrong in our religions? If your religions claims that you can only go to heaven by following the path of that particular religion. You have been sold politics of sense of belonging. If that received education is overwhelming for you and you have put it above all of your education they have succeeded in brain washing you to grow up being biased, prejudiced and discriminatory being. Yet you have been born with spiritual jewelry like personal sense of justice, compassion, forgiveness, sacrifice and love ingrained within your DNA with a choice for all humanity not limited to a group of people.
Remember politics and spirituality can’t be mixed because one is simply nothing but the truth and other one is there to twist the truth to benefit one particular group of people over everyone else. That political intervention has had and still is robbing us all of our personal spirituality. Regardless of what you have been told that your religion is the only favorite religion to God and no one can go to heaven if they are not part of it. Politics aside you have to understand the importance of personal spiritual character before you accept God as a biased, prejudiced and discriminatory entity.
When you would like to do good things for others but only for your belonging group exclusively you are being political. If you do it for all human beings equally, that would be clearly spiritual. I am not going to use any name of religion but I am going to try to make my point.
Say you belong to one religion and you know that you are in a position to help but the needy belong to an other religion, if you try to convert the needy into your religion, you have crossed the spiritual lines and clearly have become a politician. If you avoid helping because you want to help the needy who believes in the same religion you believed in. That means you are under the influences of politics of sense of belonging yet the action of helping is spiritual and spirituality is unquestionably universal and blind of any faith just like the need is blind of all faiths.
Regardless of who you are, what color, gender, nation or religion you are born into, you should clearly understand and always remember that as a human being you just can’t deny your mortal nature. Your faith related quality of life still is your personal prerogative but remember your spiritual actions always fall into optional things even if they are your reciprocation.
Lets look at it this way, what does Hu mean to you? In my opinion Hu is our spiritual side which is mixed with our physical bodies deep inside our DNA way before our conception. When you mix Hu with man or woman’s body then and only then they become human beings. So the question is do you consider yourself a man or woman exclusively or a human first? If you call yourself human being you automatically are consisted of God or spiritual side from within. Since we can’t separately survive or live, our choices should be made as a whole human being.
I don’t want to slip too far into assumptions so will try to keep it simple. In the nut shell I am talking about the atom of autonomy which is carried by each and every living breathing human being so regardless of belonging groups our atom of autonomy makes everyone part of humanity and God simultaneously.
If you consider yourself as just a man or a woman you disregard your Hu, that exclusively makes you a body or just a physical being. Being without the hu makes man live like a creature who marks territories more like animals. Always remember being just a man is actually less than being a human being so you can’t take a pride in it.
You can have all the scientific and technological knowledge or even religious knowledge but if it is without spirituality, you simply don’t pass the test of being a spiritual human being. Simply spirituality is the one what makes or breaks you, it can take you apart from God or make you a physical and crucial part of God almighty.
If you are born into a group of people who don’t really value or have spiritual jewelry like personal sense of justice, compassion, tolerance, forgiveness, sacrifice and love for others. They usually would not believe in programs like social work and related assistance, universal health care and other community help for weak and vulnerable it simply is not healthy itself so it is spiritually bankrupt. As an individual if we are blessed with more than we need, it is our duty to reciprocate for the free oxygen and a functioning body. If we take, take and take the idea of humanity to carry on dies. You can say what can go wrong if I don’t pay my dues or taxes. Well one percent and ninety nine percent related problems are already here. I am no fan of socialism because it is not spiritually just for the individual but when humanity becomes spiritually bankrupt and people die of hunger while some have more than they can consume I will speak against all kind of hoarding.
People would like to go to mosques, churches and temples because of religious duties or to attend rituals and pray but ignore the essence of religious knowledge yes I am talking about spirituality related practical prayers. If you are a religious individual but don’t believe in social programs because you have been taught or you personally believe that they come from socialism you need to wake up and smell the spiritual roses. To me if spiritual things are not physically practiced in worshiping places like mosques, churches and temples they are made for political purposes not for spiritual fulfillment. Personally I believe all religious places should be exclusively spiritual so they can help the needy beyond their religious beliefs.
Always remember a religion without spirituality is just a political system or I should say spiritually impotent political organization which is there to conform the individual into a puppet. Individually focus on the practical prayers like helping the needy or simply believe in paying taxes as part of your reciprocation for free oxygen and functioning body. As a human being we need to understand reciprocation is not only limited with God and community but within our relationships as well. If you share, pull your load and help each other to make each others life easier that way world would be a lot more peaceful in all aspects of life.