Radical liberation

Acting with Love

 We could argue, debate, converse, talk about "right" action and "wrong" action but our responses are products of our parents thinking, their grandparents thinking, society's thinking... Where is the true self below all those layers of influence? When Buddha, Confucius, Jesus, all the great masters of the human experience tell us to let it go and love each other, maybe we are over complicating everything. Through intuition, feeling, loving, hugging, dancing, breathing deeply, are we not living too? Is life really only changed through government? 

I love the theories of Biocentrism and the idea that we are the creators of our universe... literally. We see the world in a made up pattern that meets our expectations. We expect war, surprises, death, decay, nature, animals, buildings, work, the economy. Life is a ride. If we start from zero, if we delete everything down to the simple fact that you are a breathing ape like creature and you own/know nothing, you have no family/friends/lovers you are attached to. You are just purely an animal sitting on a chair. Regardless of the consequences you can make up in your head for denouncing everything "I will lose my job, my house, my wife, my kids, etc" think for a moment of the yogis up in the himalayas. Meditating in a cave, living off hardly any food. If we imagine that to be our baseline, do you see how you are free? Think of when you were born, naked with nothing, that is what you are. You did not arrive with anything else, you attached to these things because you thought/think they will help you survive. But have you deeply asked yourself the question of why you are living? How is easy -- we work, eat, sleep, fight for the how. What about the why? You chose the job, the house, the family, the attachment to these things for fear of losing the how yet where is the why. It is not wrong to have these things but attachment and the feeling of needing to cling onto them makes how into why. Unless you are unattached because you have realized through personal experience that attachment leads to suffering just like Buddha told us. If we search for the why to live, maybe what we find is to ride the ride and in order to have a good ride ~ we should love ourselves and each other. Not become attached to what our love does just simply love to love.

From being born naked and put into the arms of your mother or a family member we complicate life unnecessarily. What is necessary? It depends on what you are living for but if you are living for love, some things are unnecessary, if you are capable of truly loving others you will find that we do not need to fear them nor construct oppressive regimes to keep "them" in order. Do you really believe deeply in your heart that you only do good because of fear of punishment from the government? You are capable of loving, protecting, giving and if you are not different from all the other members of your species, why should they require oppressive regimes as well? Where is our control group to base the need for oppressive government or violence/war on? If a society has peace, they do not randomly break out into war. I do not feel this is our nature and I feel this causes suffering.

Buddha and others were right to simplify their teachings and tell us the truth which is inside each and every one of us. We are peace, we are love. Don't get confused by complicated politics and arguments, life is not very complicated. Sow wheat, reap wheat. Feed people with wheat. Grow more wheat. Keep a generous heart so all are fed, even those who are unable to help on the farm. What will it hurt? It hurts to set up a system that makes people fear for their "How" in life and thus feel the need to steal/manipulate/have more than others. The why is simple and the how is simple too. It is a false idea to assume that because humanity is a large population that we cannot change overnight, the population is made up of individuals exactly like you and me, do you doubt it? Why? I have had many nights when I changed over night. 

May you always love yourself and others. I will always love you.

“The radical, committed to human liberation, does not become the prisoner of a 'circle of certainty' within which reality is also imprisoned. On the contrary, the more radical the person is, the more fully he or she enters into reality so that, knowing it better, he or she can better transform it. This individual is not afraid to confront, to listen, to see the world unveiled. This person is not afraid to meet the people or to enter into dialogue with them. This person does not consider himself or herself the proprietor of history or of all people, or the liberator of the oppressed; but he or she does commit himself or herself, within history, to fight at their side.”
― Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed