Philosophical Ponderances
But I'm not going to try to say anything fancy or big...just what I think...not even necessarily what I wholely believe unless I say so...
I could hardly blame somebody for getting mad at me for what I'm about to say. I suppose...I really shouldn't say it, and yet, it screams out at me constantly. I...hate people. I hate society, I hate the way we think, move, act and live. Perhaps 'hate' is the wrong word...rather, I'm sickened by it. This of course includes myself, I am just as much engulfed by the continuing cycle as any other...this is in no way a purely selfish statement that I make. But it always...troubles me that so much of our society, we think...regardless of what we THINK we think, we all base everything on ourselves. Think about it. Our entire population thrives on two things. Sex and greed. It's rather funny when you think about it, that the two things that concern us most are, at least as far as what they are meant to be, the continuation of our species and the desire to amass a pack-rat's paradise of shiny things and wealth, only to mean nothing in death.
People struggle to fulfill their agendas all their lives, always thinking it's a matter for themselves to get it done. The irony (the whole universe is one huge contradiction, I swear to whatever) to THIS is that...we essentially live to satisfy the society. Every single 'sane' one of us does. To live, grow up, get a job, follow the rules, have kids, and die, and you are a good human. WHY? Why always do the religions try to force us into living for the other? Why must we be coerced into charity rather than doing it unconsciously?
We truly understand nothing of ourselves, and what it means to be human...if only we could let it all go...look inside ourselves, understand the vapidity in meaning and simply understand our lives as single moments in a grander scale...to release our ego, and follow the flow of the universe...with nothing to strive for and no desire to follow the bizarre whims of our everchanging cultures, compassion would become automatic. Altruism is an impossible concept, even in Buddhism, because that promises enlightenment through virtue. Yet through total detachment, as seems to be the case in Taoism, can one be truly kind, truly altruistic. To acknowledge that life is fun but it has no true purpose, to acknowledge ourselves no better than any speck of dirt or almighty presence, to simply be a part of the universe, of reality, of whatever word one wishes to attach to our existence, as we were born into it, I think this is the way to achieve 'enlightenment' in the truest sense of the word. And society today is far from anything like that. Tibet, although Buddhist, is the closest to that that has ever been...and now that culture has nearly been destroyed.
In my opinion, the answer to understanding our existence lies in the path one takes, from two choices we innately have at creation-
Learn what we are expected to become, try to follow what others want and conform to society...
Or learn innately who you are yourself; what your OWN reality is through your own perception; strike a new path, and try to Learn what it truly means to be human.
