Excerpt: Do you try to save the world? Are you involved in an activity to change other people's behavior because you think you know better and you think your way and your truth is the right one? Your efforts are futile. You are not better than any other person, and the only person you can change is yourself. Indeed, you can and do influence others but not through efforts, not through actions, but only through being. And exactly there, from a place of no agenda or resentment, a place of full acceptance and compassion, you make the difference!
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Hello,
I read somewhere about a female porn movie star who happens to be a blogger too (whatever that means, bah!) who plans to have sex with 1001 people just to make a world record. I went to her website and read some of the things she wrote and I can't understand how people are allowed to publish such things. Where is the government?! I mean, I am for freedom of speech but there is a limit, and you have also written against pornography, haven't you? What I am saying is, therefore, why don't we see more people who act against such hideous things?!
Rob
Rob,
You surely noticed that I omitted the link to that porn-star's website from your question. I did not do it because I agree with what you said, but simply because I do not choose to be part of promoting pornography. Those who really are interested to read about her can easily find the links through Google.
Life is about choice, as I have said many times and as you have correctly hinted. The fact that you have the freedom to imagine a life the way you want it to be and to create whatever reality would suit you, does not mean that judging others is appropriate. It is indeed a huge moral and social dilemma to see where freedom of speech and protecting a society interfere with each other, and I am definitely not going to write a dissertation about it.
As a matter of fact, learning to accept everything in life is a major key on the path to enlightenment. We can indeed grow up as children under the protecting wings of "the light" and then one day be startled when the dark side of divinity is thrown in our faces. Such an episode is actually a major gift since real inner progression necessitates the integration of both aspects of a duality. This is what I am saying about the dark which meets the light.
If you personally, Rob, have an issue with certain aspects of life, evoking strong emotional responses, then there lie your biggest gift. In the example you brought, you may want to hug the pornstar (figuratively speaking) and decipher her message for you. The same goes for others who tend to judge events and people.
Each and every human being around you, no matter what they do, think or feel; no matter how noble or villainous you may find them to be, is an appropriate aspect of the full consciousness of the divine and have a natural and rightful place under heaven; just as you are entitled to your own safe and free place in this reality and beyond.
There is some confusion among rich and powerful groups around the world who observe a world that changes very quickly and not always in the direction they wanted. Even the highest moral authorities whose noble goals and purposes are beyond reproach, and who also have the resources to save the world, have recently come to realize that such a task is beyond any external force's ability.
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You ask, Why don’t more people do something to save the world? and I am telling you they have already tried. They have spent billions of dollars, plotted and schemed and planned on an enormous scale and used every single shred of influence they had, but eventually realized that they cannot save and are not supposed to save the world or their fellow human beings. Such an act would contradict the fabric of life in this reality.
It is not my intention to change your thinking, Rob, because I do not judge you either. Neither have I wanted to swamp the whole topic with lofty and shallow words. I simply want to stress once again that everything begins with you, the Individual, and love is all there is.
That should direct you to action, to understand what you indeed can do, other than to try to save the world. And the only thing that is appropriate is to be the best version of an enlightened embodied realized human master than you can be. Then you will serve as a standard to the other people whom you so dearly fond of and care for.
Thank you for your question.
