Sunday, September 6, 2015

Only the realization that the world is the one made manifest can even attempt to solve existential problems. We are forever locked into our own worlds of experience and self-identification, even as we are one with the singular infinity. I remember myself as a child riding through other neighborhoods and seeing the seemingly unending parade of other people’s homes and lives roll by. I was shocked that so many were not mine.

There are no easy answers. False religious beliefs offer no consolation to the aware mind. You are you and I am me. We are forever locked into our temporal beings. Contentment is a learned skill. Acceptance is the only course open to us.

It occurs to me that pessimistic views should be given no more weight than optimistic views. Both are extremes brought on chemically––sometimes from just internal thoughts and sometimes from external circumstances. We can, because we are in charge of our beings, teach ourselves techniques to keep our state of mind in relative balance. We need to accept the oppositional duality of the world about us, understand that joy is only manifest in relation to the counterpart of sorrow, happiness in relation to suffering. A more perfect world would equalize all the extremes, political, social, and economic. Though that world is evolving, it is not yet available to most of us. That does not mean that it will not come.