Hello my spiritually seeking, life appreciating community!
I have a question and am presently unsure as how to go about even asking it.
I had a couple thoughts earlier today relevant to this topic...
One, it seems more people now rely on information outside themselves to tell them what to think and how to feel. You may be guilty of this and not be willing to admit it. An example I can give you is... I asked my friend how he's doing today and he said he's doing miserable after learning about all these different atrocities he's read spending his time online. It seems a majority of us are living with a TV, a cellphone or the internet between our ears.
Two, despite how divided we seem- I feel with quite a Faith-filled emotion that we are becoming more united than ever. Even people who seem so opposite are uniting, and a common "enemy" seems to be shifting towards something other than fellow layman vs fellow layman. Granted, there is still much duality and Ego where people feel so attached to a political or religious identity they treat their spiritual Brother or Sister with contempt or disrespect... Either way, I am hopeful we are collectively evolving towards divine realization.
So... What am I trying to get at?
Well- I feel like ancient wisdom has said not to rely on things outside your self. And it seems all we do is rely on things outside ourselves.
I guess my question is. How do we navigate this life accordingly, so as to create peace with those we find disagreeable and/or heavily dependent on the worlds drama for their life experience? I say this knowing narratives today have been construed, information online has been taken out of context and polarization has been intentionally employed as a tactical weapon by those who wish to steer the course of humanity.
Do we fight each other and say- you are wrong! This is actually what's going on in the world!
Do we close ourselves off to the other and say- Oh, how mislead my Brother/Sister has been! They are totally indoctrinated, and therefore I must distance myself from them!
I recognize I am more than my body. But I came here to experience 3D physicality, this I can say with certainty as my individual preference. I am choosing to find the harmony between This Life, a life of duality and Spiritual life- a life of oneness. It isn't easy, and I am far from tempering my personality or taming my Ego- sometimes, I willingly rebel against the idea.
In a world of hot and cold, right and wrong- how do we recognize who one calls evil another calls great and bridge the differences our attachments create?
How do we create peace with those in our environment who appear so hypertensive as a consequence of living totally online AND/OR totally inside their heads?
I guess these are my thoughts I have been wanting to get out and welcome your feedback.
Namaste~
Although I get your point, I think there is a very good side of the internet and outside information; that is we are able to get information on what atrocities and cruelty is being done to other human beings, that we may not have experienced if we were in a news blackout. We can know for instance that Chinese Communism is using their meditation population for organ harvesting. And makes claims that for instance, Taiwan is theirs, when we know full well it is an independent country free from Chinese indoctrination. And we are privy to the aggressive tactics of the Chinese military on Jet Planes of other countries as well as boats by the the Chinese military. Here is an example of the benefits of internet information in making decisions as how to combat the evil of Chinese Communism;
Allegations of forced organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners and other political prisoners in China have raised concern within the international community.[1][2][3] According to a report by former lawmaker David Kilgour, human rights lawyer David Matas and journalist Ethan Gutmann of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, political prisoners, mainly Falun Gong practitioners, are being executed "on demand" in order to provide organs for transplant to recipients.[1][2] Reports have said that organ harvesting has been used to advance the Chinese Communist Party's persecution of Falun Gong[4] and because of the financial incentives available to the institutions and individuals involved in the trade.[5][6] A report by The Washington Post has disputed some of the allegations, saying that China does not import sufficient quantities of immunosuppressant drugs, used by transplant recipients, to carry out such quantities of organ harvesting.[7]
Reports on systematic organ harvesting from Falun Gong prisoners first emerged in 2006, though the practice is alleged to have started at least six years earlier.[8][9] Several researchers—most notably Matas, Kilgour and Gutmann—estimate that tens of thousands of Falun Gong prisoners of conscience have been killed to supply a lucrative trade in human organs and cadavers and that these abuses may be ongoing.[10] These conclusions are based on a combination of statistical analysis; interviews with former prisoners, medical authorities and public security agents; and circumstantial evidence, such as the large number of Falun Gong practitioners detained extrajudicially in China and the profits to be made from selling organs.[6
Wikipedia
Let us take this statement you made above:
“How do we create peace with those in our environment who appear so hypertensive as a consequence of living totally online AND/OR totally inside their heads?“
My answer is that it is God’s intention we are to live together and we were put on this planet to see how we would get along. Many people live more ‘inside their head’ and live like they had their heads buried in the ground, in a make believe world of their own fantasy and illusions. When we ‘rub’ against others, we round off and smooth our rough edges.
Furthermore I would like to relate a personal experience that recently helped me tremendously because of the internet and outside information. I made friends and became attached to a ‘woman’ that texted me and we talked for sometime. Fortunately I did not take up on her offers and did a search with her photos on the Internet with Google/images to find out she was not even the person she made out to be: it was someone else entirely!
