Bassim
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This is the second part of my text "SHOAH". Please, would you proofread it.
Despite all scientific and technological progress and much better living conditions, we have still remained the same creatures as we have been for the last thousands years: split between the brutal, law impulses and a higher, spiritual part of us which belong to the universe. However, judging by the reality, it seems that the majority of us do not care about the second part.
If one asks ordinary people in the street about their goals and dreams, their answers will be quite predictable. They will mention job, money, marriage, house, children, car and similar things which one usually associates with appearances. It is also highly predictable that almost nobody will answer, “I want to discover myself and learn more about human existence.”
It looks as if people living in the 21st century do not have time for such “nebulous” phenomena. They have become spoilt and lazy and want to see the action happening before their eyes, the more excited, brilliant and colourful, the better.
Appearances are so deeply rooted in human beings that only individuals with strong will, long experience and higher spiritual life can avoid their alluring power.
For example, when an attractive woman walks the street, she is followed by the hungry eyes of the men who almost all have the same thought on their minds which shouts, “I want you!” At the very first moment, they see her not as a human being, but as an object which will satisfy their desire. An expensive sport car and similar gadgets can have the same effect on the human brain, looking all the time for new impressions and attractions.
Our brain is like a wild horse which is almost impossible to tame. As soon as its desire is satisfied and man believes that now he can enjoy peace and quiet, the brain becomes restless and runs away, galloping towards only for him known grassland. But we will never know if it is real of an imagination. How many times I have observed women in front of the shop window looking at the dress or a bag, sighing and talking about them as if their whole existence depends on these products. They could stand there for many minutes discussing the colours, forms, and the quality of the materials and their brains have already created a new reality for them in which these objects will give them the ultimate happiness.
When I see them and hear their animated voices, I have a desire to come up and offer to buy them that latest fashion dress or a bag, only to tell them that already the next week it will not be so attractive in their eyes, because the next week they will be another dress in the shop window, advertised as more beautiful, comfortable and better quality than the previous one.
However, knowing how my fellow human beings think, I will be risking to be seen as another madman, harassing women and spoiling their pleasure in admiring an object which they are yearning for and which will give them satisfaction, even if it is for a few hours or days.
One can complain about the lack of spirituality in our modern civilisation, but there are people around who are perfectly satisfied with such situation. One group of them are our political leaders. They do not want to see their fellow citizens wasting their energy and brooding over something which one cannot see with the naked eye. As they treat people as children and see themselves as fathers , politicians cannot risk to appear stupid and unable to answer on the eventual questions about the meaning of life and higher state of consciousness.
Their job is to manipulate and promise lower taxes, high wages, lower mortgages and less crime. In their narrow-minded world, the universe exists only as a place where enormous amounts of minerals and oilfields still wait to be exploited and where human beings one day are going to be send to conquer and create more business opportunities.
Like many of their subjects, politicians have been using lower parts of the brain which deal with instincts, aggression and survival. Any discussion about spirituality would show to their voters how shallow and primitive they are. Therefore, every politician shuns those who have understood the meaning of life. They make him feel insignificant, ignorant and wretched. And the worst of all, his well-prepared speech will sound hollow.
TO BE CONTINUED
Despite all scientific and technological progress and much better living conditions, we have still remained the same creatures as we have been for the last thousands years: split between the brutal, law impulses and a higher, spiritual part of us which belong to the universe. However, judging by the reality, it seems that the majority of us do not care about the second part.
If one asks ordinary people in the street about their goals and dreams, their answers will be quite predictable. They will mention job, money, marriage, house, children, car and similar things which one usually associates with appearances. It is also highly predictable that almost nobody will answer, “I want to discover myself and learn more about human existence.”
It looks as if people living in the 21st century do not have time for such “nebulous” phenomena. They have become spoilt and lazy and want to see the action happening before their eyes, the more excited, brilliant and colourful, the better.
Appearances are so deeply rooted in human beings that only individuals with strong will, long experience and higher spiritual life can avoid their alluring power.
For example, when an attractive woman walks the street, she is followed by the hungry eyes of the men who almost all have the same thought on their minds which shouts, “I want you!” At the very first moment, they see her not as a human being, but as an object which will satisfy their desire. An expensive sport car and similar gadgets can have the same effect on the human brain, looking all the time for new impressions and attractions.
Our brain is like a wild horse which is almost impossible to tame. As soon as its desire is satisfied and man believes that now he can enjoy peace and quiet, the brain becomes restless and runs away, galloping towards only for him known grassland. But we will never know if it is real of an imagination. How many times I have observed women in front of the shop window looking at the dress or a bag, sighing and talking about them as if their whole existence depends on these products. They could stand there for many minutes discussing the colours, forms, and the quality of the materials and their brains have already created a new reality for them in which these objects will give them the ultimate happiness.
When I see them and hear their animated voices, I have a desire to come up and offer to buy them that latest fashion dress or a bag, only to tell them that already the next week it will not be so attractive in their eyes, because the next week they will be another dress in the shop window, advertised as more beautiful, comfortable and better quality than the previous one.
However, knowing how my fellow human beings think, I will be risking to be seen as another madman, harassing women and spoiling their pleasure in admiring an object which they are yearning for and which will give them satisfaction, even if it is for a few hours or days.
One can complain about the lack of spirituality in our modern civilisation, but there are people around who are perfectly satisfied with such situation. One group of them are our political leaders. They do not want to see their fellow citizens wasting their energy and brooding over something which one cannot see with the naked eye. As they treat people as children and see themselves as fathers , politicians cannot risk to appear stupid and unable to answer on the eventual questions about the meaning of life and higher state of consciousness.
Their job is to manipulate and promise lower taxes, high wages, lower mortgages and less crime. In their narrow-minded world, the universe exists only as a place where enormous amounts of minerals and oilfields still wait to be exploited and where human beings one day are going to be send to conquer and create more business opportunities.
Like many of their subjects, politicians have been using lower parts of the brain which deal with instincts, aggression and survival. Any discussion about spirituality would show to their voters how shallow and primitive they are. Therefore, every politician shuns those who have understood the meaning of life. They make him feel insignificant, ignorant and wretched. And the worst of all, his well-prepared speech will sound hollow.
TO BE CONTINUED