on the revolution
There are two main parts to the revolution.
One is creating a fair and just world whose culture and form promotes wisdom and enlightenment, the development of the souls of the people.
The second, is redeeming 'the lost souls', the corruptors, the people who think they run the world, the pawns who choose to play their game, and show them the light - to show the worthlessness of outward power in the world in many ways, to enfold people into the secret of the true meaning of life, and return them to their journeys from which they've strayed.
I think, in this culture of fear, the second objective is often lost, and instead of following Buddha nature, and embracing suffering and sorrow to teach our brothers and sisters compassion, we forget our own higher natures and instead fall into the downward cycle, of violence and hate and vengeance.
Spirituality and truth may be elusive at times, but if you believe in an afterlife, and a soul, and that we are all kin in spirit, born of essential good which is forgotten in the life of the flesh, then the world is not truly made for the 'good' and the enlightened - they have their world already, the afterlife - it is made for the others: those who wish to try aspire to the good, but have their burdens which hold them back; and those who have chosen darkness, and turned their back on the light. To them, this world is their gateway, their opportunity for something better; the good who suffer as lambs are the keys to this gateway, the teachers who can show the lost back to the path.
This is not entirely correct, but perhaps I can elucidate further another time.
One carries weights to build muscles, and vices of mortality to build virtues of the spirit.
It is important to work hard and regularly, but it is also good to throw off one's burdens and take a day of rest, from time to time, and feel the ease and strength and peace within, to remember who we are becoming.
m_G
One is creating a fair and just world whose culture and form promotes wisdom and enlightenment, the development of the souls of the people.
The second, is redeeming 'the lost souls', the corruptors, the people who think they run the world, the pawns who choose to play their game, and show them the light - to show the worthlessness of outward power in the world in many ways, to enfold people into the secret of the true meaning of life, and return them to their journeys from which they've strayed.
I think, in this culture of fear, the second objective is often lost, and instead of following Buddha nature, and embracing suffering and sorrow to teach our brothers and sisters compassion, we forget our own higher natures and instead fall into the downward cycle, of violence and hate and vengeance.
Spirituality and truth may be elusive at times, but if you believe in an afterlife, and a soul, and that we are all kin in spirit, born of essential good which is forgotten in the life of the flesh, then the world is not truly made for the 'good' and the enlightened - they have their world already, the afterlife - it is made for the others: those who wish to try aspire to the good, but have their burdens which hold them back; and those who have chosen darkness, and turned their back on the light. To them, this world is their gateway, their opportunity for something better; the good who suffer as lambs are the keys to this gateway, the teachers who can show the lost back to the path.
This is not entirely correct, but perhaps I can elucidate further another time.
One carries weights to build muscles, and vices of mortality to build virtues of the spirit.
It is important to work hard and regularly, but it is also good to throw off one's burdens and take a day of rest, from time to time, and feel the ease and strength and peace within, to remember who we are becoming.
m_G