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Monday, November 19, 2012

To save the mankind! .. hold your horses, mate

Yesterday, a great urge developed again .. wanted to help the mankind.

Proposed the idea and it pretty much didn't echo. This is not the first time something like this has happened.

Took my time to analyze Owltwelve's points. Emotions started running wild and burning into heat, which propagated around the body. Occasionally visualized adding firewood to that fire, trying to keep it going .. and purifying the mind.

A few questions that have had me puzzled for quite a while:
  1. What's the difference between acting and not acting?
    1. If there's no difference, then how come one has to practise this and that to attain liberation? 
    2. From the holistic perspective, there shouldn't be any need to learn anything, because everything is already there. There's nothing that needs to be done, because everything is doing by themselves.
  2. Say you see someone struggling and intend to help them get through more easily. 
    1. From the dualistic point of view, by helping them, you would be messing with their lesson of life. So, helping others would be more egoistic than actually not helping them? 
    2. From the holistic point of view, by helping them, you would just end up helping other aspects of one higher self.
  3. Honing skills just for one's own good is no good at all, right?
    1. If by helping others, one would only be spoiling the lessons of the others, then what's the point of skills or superpowers anyway?
    2. From the holistic point of view, there's no difference between oneself and others, so there wouldn't be any difference between honing skills for one's own good or for the good of the whole mankind.
    3. However, from the holistic point of view again, there doesn't seem to be any place for skills anyway.
  4. The good feeling of helping someone.. where does it come from? Ego? Emotions?
  5. War can be defined as "an act of forcing an opinion on someone".
    1. When one projects the feelings of love, caring and compassion towards someone, is this on par with an attack of violence?
  6. It is said that one can't fight a war with another.
    1. However, when one hugs their fears, these melt away. So, a projection of love and compassion towards fear and anger might seem to be a successful combo.
  7. Love and care, wisdom and knowledge are associated with light and .. labelled as good stuff. However, what's propagated as a necessity for enlightenment, there's detachment aka "A wise man does not hug nor hate the world."
    1. So, enlightenment wouldn't have much to do with love nor caring. Would associate more with cold-heartedly stepping out, leaving other people suffering. Rather selfish, no?
    2. That doesn't make much sense, especially since from the holistic point of view, there's no "one" that has become enlightened. A man could only say they're enlightened when that's what all men are. This is not achieved by detachment.
    3. The problem here is that both feel right and surely, we can read about different sorts of saints from the history.
  8. A good quote from the movie "Hugo": "the world is like one big machine; and no machine has extra parts … every part has a purpose."
    1. This doesn't seem to fit with the ideas of 
      1. action and inaction being the same,
      2. skills having no meaning,
      3. there being nothing to do or learn (since everything is one whole anyway)
All of these questions lead to the million dollar question of the point of it all. By trying to answer these questions, it seems as if life had no point. There seem to be too many conflicts there, something about it seems off.

I guess some of the emotions did burn away during this pondering. Still, since this "battle" has been recurring, there must be something I'm yet to realize here.

Thank you all for bringing this up. Got to learn the point first, before any bold and dangerous attempts.

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