« How we view the world – our world view – is in the end the only thing that decides whether we suffer or find real happiness”[1].
This phrase is taken from a commentary on the Patanjali Sutras, an ancient text on yoga, that is still being studied even if it was written by Patanjali over 2 thousand years ago. One of the greatest texts from India on the practice of yoga. The commentary is by Geshe Michael Roach, a US citizen that attained the highest level of Tibetan Buddhist scholarship, as reflected by the title Geshe, master of philosophy. Written with the help of Christie McNally.
I have been aware of this since childhood. Our view of the world determines how we live our lives. The way we live our lives determines if we are happy, elated, sad or in despair. In our modern world, fraught with indoctrination by corporations, governments and occult organisations (cabals, cartels, elite networks) believing the messages and news carried by the media and the internet is equivalent to swimming blindfolded on a great agitated ocean seeking to save our lives by finding the only buoy afloat. I’m hardly exaggerating.
We are all one. We are all connected and not only with one another but also with the animals, bird, trees and mountains. All humans everywhere have the same basic needs. All people on all continents have the same love lives, hopes, appetites and necessities. All of us seek happiness. But true happiness is only available when our souls are satisfied that we are acting as true, conscious, aware human beings. Today this means not being blinded by what other people are saying but discovering the truth for ourselves.
The main stream media is telling us that this and that nation have awful leaders and those people and that population are bad. As one example, recently we saw a powerful nation boldly acting as international police and kidnapping a nation’s leader, all the while hardly hiding that the real goal is financial. The same happened here in America: the Europeans greedy for the riches of the new world, reinforced by a Papal Bull declaring that the Indigenous men and women were animals and had no soul, committed one of the most cruel and extreme genocides history has ever seen. Believing what others have said without examining the truth, that all people have souls, and deserve to be treated as dignified human beings, have led many people on a course of great suffering and extreme karmic debt. This historical atrocity shows us what happens when we accept another’s narrative rather than recognizing the fundamental truth of our interconnectedness.
We need to see the truth for ourselves.
There is a part of you, an intimate aspect of your being that instinctively knows what is true, what’s good or bad. We need to exercise this part of our being. Like any muscle or ability, practice is what makes it possible to develop. How to discover the truth? By going within. You won’t find the truth out there. No-one can give you a real and profound reality check unless they themselves have discovered the truth through deep and profound practice and soul searching. We really need meditation, deep thinking, looking at the world with a view that is not referenced by ideas but supported by immediate, innate, conscious presence. Being in the present with eyes wide open. And then, once we have seen the truth, and have a measure by which we can evaluate what the state of the world really is, and how our morals and ethics are what guarantee that we’ll find true happiness, will we truly understand the world we live in.
I’m of one mind with Geshe Michael. A true view of the state of the world and the will to courageously live in accordance with this view is what gives us true happiness. Nothing and no other person can ever hinder or taint this happiness as it comes from the truth that is within, from our eternal and immortal souls. This explains how martyrs can go into death smiling, how Jesus accepted crucifixion and then overcame death, how we can withstand persecution, imprisonment, life challenging disease and yet still have a joke and a smile and be really happy. Take a deep look within and then look at the world and you’ll see they are the same. As Socrates said : “Know thyself and you will know the universe and the gods“.
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