Or the better question is, do we need to? These are some ruminations relating to the paradox of the futility of doing anything to "help" humanity, yet having a strong sense that something can and/or should be done. This isn't a rhetorical, nihilistic comment, but a legitimate question as to fundamental motivation.
I suppose the answer must have to do with the end of suffering, if indeed it has served it's higher purpose. Advocacy could just be the overlapping of the self interjecting it's need for contribution and perceived value. The subtle voice of higher intelligence cannot be heard over the noisy hubris of the self and I'm working on this discernment. The self is nothing more than a virtual conglomerate of concepts, attachments and judgments chosen from the field of infinite possibilities. It operates within a perceived consistent density, like iron filings clustering around a magnetized block. The block is inert unless charged with an active "force" that attracts the random filings.
In my own search for understanding this force, or "ultimate cause", I have settled for now on the notion that there simply is NO SECOND CAUSE - only a perceived one...called "i/me". This releases me from a cause and effect conundrum of my own creation and guides me into the peaceful surrender offered by real faith [meaning complete trust in whatever is presented in the moment, not in an external entity of any sort.]
No science has a lock on truth. No religion has a lock on goodness. One does not have to live by the rules of any prescribed ethos to know the "right thing to do". The simple definition of "goodness" is universal, timeless, unchanging..."do no harm". Other than this "law", what other laws do we need?
The divine is phenomenal in all things. ALL THINGS. In every moment we are given the unfettered opportunity to either "rest" (trust) in a state of non-qualitative beingness" (from the higher intelligence p.o.v.) or to "react" (judge) from a state of qualitative beingness" (from the self intelligence p.o.v.). Choosing between these two contextual states of being is the only actual place our free-will can be exercised. This is where faith is an active verb, not a passive expectation of positive intervention from some outside source.
It seems to me we have moved into the application phase of this perceptual shift. We now have enough information to effectively apply what we have so tediously and arduously learned about manifesting reality, which is how to do consciously what we have been doing unconsciously. We are limited in this ability only if we believe and live as if we are. It has always been that way, we simply have not perceived it that way, and we consequently tacitly accept and perpetuate the mass apriori assumption that creator and creation are separate.
The visible/material dimension arises out of the invisible/ethereal dimension, a counter-intellectual idea that defies ordinary logic or cognition. We can TALK ABOUT it for eternity and try to change everything out there...or can we simply change our minds? "We must be the change we want to see in the world." How many platitudes do we have to regurgitate to finally grok that we need to BE, rather than just KNOW?
At this time, it is my personal view that the collective energetic intentions of a critical mass of free-willed volunteers is now being organized by higher intelligence into a "magnetic resonance" that is changing everything and rapidly. And the doing, the preparation, is primarily internal; taking responsibility for our own perception, recognizing and no longer identifying with the limited self, and expanding into the space in which everything and everyone exists as a heretofore unknown landscape. it is about a volitional, hyper-vigilant practice of "being here"...consistently showing up to see what the universe presents, rather than looking for something to meet any expectations.
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