Ever wonder how an entire population of a billion people that are brilliant enough to fix every complicated machine and operate on the most crucial surgeries around the world could be so seething and raging at every new fad in the media that comes along. I mean this is something too hard to miss. This year was randomly abuzz with communal tensions, beef fiascos, really angry politicians, randomly shouting talk shows, public lynchings, water embargo, violent and destructive community protests, damage to public property, outroar among students, outroar at students, Mad displays of power and really, really pissed off public statements.
Now this blog is entirely intended to address all the world in general, but some especially weird cases here and there makes things worth a look.
India is the country where meditation was born. Dhyaan went to China became Chan, Chan went to Japan became Zen. Zen spearheaded the pro-nature hippie culture in America, America could have been the beacon of peace when they spread the message through the all-acceptance policy and rock musicians. The Twin terror strike changed that. America grew angry as a country. people did unspeakable acts of cruelty fueled by righteous rage, for those who stayed silent became hateful, suspicious and narrow-minded.
People as a collective and through them an entire country can go into a frenzy of emotions. Like any normal person we engage the world dripping with fear, worry, anxiety, competition (cough: jealousy), sometimes annoyance and even anger and hate. Rage can take control of us, as can lust and greed. In the end, even the worst wrongdoers are humans. They were just people who were driven temporarily insane.
We lose our centre, our sanity.
We are so bent in on the constant movie roll in our heads that whatever happened to us, or anything we witnessed becomes our entire world. We eat with it, sleep with it, work with it, pray with it and quite frankly live in it. That’s how suicide bombers are indoctrinated. That’s why there are honour killings, rapes, and home invasions across the world. That is how we program ourselves to hate, to judge and in some cases to act.
You know what’s the one difference between you and a completely insane person. You can come back to your senses in a while. They cannot. That is their reality. That is the universe they live in. Driven by the emotions that take control of them, their minds create visions of their own world. Their eyes show them what they believe is real.
When you think of it that way, remember the last piece of kitchenware you threw to the floor, or the last time you raised your voice, or the last time you stole something, or the last time you lied.
India, like America a while ago, is boiling with emotions because of the collective anger seething inside of them. India was where Meditation was conceived as a way to get out of that constant chain of mental illusions and come back to reality as it is. It is either funny or sad how blatantly they forget that.
We can easily come back to the physical world. By chanting Raam, or reading a Namaaz, by remembrances of a guru or just prayer. Whatever path we choose. Mankind might never understand good from the bad until we are calm, peaceful, passive and alert. You best begin right now.
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