Actually Thinking-Together Correctly?
Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.
(San Jose, California)-If one may remind you that this is not an entertainment. This is not a one-day affair that you come to and is entertained by the writer and his talks and writings, questions. But rather this is a very serious affair that you and the writer will embark upon together. Together not the writer writes and you just read/listen, but you involve your whole self with this thing and we together find out. If you have come here because you saw something or someone has mentioned this to you and you want to see what its all about that is not good enough!
You are here at these writing of very serious people, please one hopes so. And we are not in any way trying to convince you of anything or any new theories, conclusion, concepts or ideals. To the writer all of those things are an abomination they have no meaning in daily life. Furthermore this is not a popular thing, popularity is the last thing that is desired. What is important one seems to ask is that we consider together both objectively and subjectively all the problems/conflicts, pain, sorrows, fears and deep loneliness with all the rest while we are here doing this.
Please bare in mind if one may remind you and keep on reminding you that the writer has no authority as a person, this is not a personality cult. Or something that you agree or disagree with. Because it is important that we exercise our brains with reason, logic and sanity, not say I like you so I agree with you or that he is some strange person so we don’t agree with you. Rather we will think over together, observe together not agree and disagree the whole phenomenon of existence in our daily life and way of living and without thoughts, emotions and reactions.
There fore to enquire deeply into the whole process of living, what is happening outwardly in the world objectively and inwardly psychologically subjective? If you don’t like that word subjective psychological state, you can say inside the skin or beneath the skin not the blood, bones, sinews and so on but those unexplored by each one of us although specialist may have explored it superficially. But together and the writer means together, not that the writer is going to write and put forth certain idea but rather we together observe these extraordinary events in our life the conflict, the many problems, the problems of relationship, why we get hurt and psychologically wounded.
Furthermore we will also talk over together the whole question of fear. Is it possible to be ever free of fear, first not outwardly objectively, but subjectively inwardly to be entirely free of fear? We will also look at pleasure that we so eagerly desire along with the enormous burden of sorrow. Not only of ones own sorrow but the sorrow of humankind. We will also go into religion not that which you believe in or don’t believe in, not organize religion. More so the question of what is religion and what is the state of the brain that is free and able to perceive that which is sacred and true. Lets not forget death, this question has been haunting humankind mind for centuries upon centuries. Which is the fate of every human being in the world, the one thing that is absolutely certain. From that we may go into meditation and its place.
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So we are concerned with the whole of life not one aspect of it. Nor are we concerned with one particular form but with the whole of our existence on this earth. We will also go into together what is beauty? When there is no beauty there is no truth, not only externally environmentally, but the sense of what is really beautiful. So we are going together without any kind of persuasion or enticement, reward or punishment think and observe together. Take a long journey into ourselves, a long journey into the world and also subjectively inwardly. There fore to do this minutely, precisely, there must be the quality of doubt, skepticism, questioning never excepting anything from anybody or thing neither one on experience or another, nor any philosophical theoretical ideological concepts.
When we can prepare ourselves in this way then we can see the importance and seriousness of this, not something that you go off to for a weekend vacation but to really apply ourselves our whole selves so we can talk it over together, find out together, please. Which mean that one should put aside for the time being or completely ones own prejudices, bias, obstinate or light opinions. Because they distort, prevent, block accurate perception that should take place. So can we go on this journey not with great effort but rather hesitantly, attentively not following anybody, there is no teacher, mentor or guru, there fore in the psychological subjective matters there is no authority.
You see we are either the authority of ones own experience, the authority of ones own knowledge and knowledge being limited or obeying some concept. All of this prevents natural clear perception. Is this possible at-all to be free of ones own conclusions, concepts and images one has build up about oneself as a guide, bias, prejudice, opinions or some ideals projected by thought in opposition or connivance with the present. So that the brain becomes very clear, active and alert so that we can observe, think and take this exploration into the world outside and into ours selves together?
This is the concern of all of these talks/writings/accounts? There is no authority in this matter. Each one of us is responsible for their actions and thoughts, the way we live with all the rest. And if we want to blame others, the environment or society. The society is what we have made of it; the social structure is what humankind has put together for centuries through their ambitions, competitions, their aggressiveness, fear, pleasure and all the rest. This means that the society in which we live is corrupted, preparing for wars is the consequences and the result of the way we live, think, feel and interact with others and all the rest.
In considering all of this, are we wasting our life? The wastage is conflict, the conflict in which we live perpetually from the moment that we are born until we die. This is a fact! Humankind has never been able to solve this problem, which is a very complex affair whether human being throughout the world including you reading this can ever be free from every kind of conflict? Or is it natural for humankind both historically and actually that we must live not only inward conflict but externally through perpetual wars killing each other. Perhaps in the old days 5000 or more where killed, now we can kill millions with one hit and we call this progress. Every nation in the world is gathering armaments, which you all know. All supplied by England, 80% of the armament go abroad if the writer is not mistaking.
We have accepted this as a natural way of life, conflict, butchery, maiming each other, terrorism all this is happening in the world. Apparently we don’t seem to mine. We say everything is in struggle and conflict with nature the lion killing the dear, so it is natural for us to be in conflict and kill each other? Lets not forget the organized religions that say live in peace, this have been said for centuries and the Christians have probable killed more than any other organizes religion. So we have accepted naturally conflict, conflict between each other man and woman.
So one asks through this long 50,000 years of evolution, we are now at the apices of so-called sophisticated human beings, is this natural is this inevitable that we must live in conflict?
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