Beginnings
We enter another man-made year. The forests are still under snow or sultry with tropical shade. The oceans slosh and climb with melted ice. Birds fly their ancient patterns. We humans roar and dance our way to a perceived new beginning. But, is it a beginning at all? Or is it a continuation of our old habits of mindless consumption and disregard for each other?
The train of male-dominated oligarchy chugs along as it did on December 31st. The Bilderberg aristocrats are still calling all the shots. Protest is being strangled. Affluent youth are mesmerized with iScreens and apps. All of them are suffering from a delusion of greater personal power and freedom, when, in fact, they are slaves to Verizon, AT&T and Comcast, which are fiefs of Big Oil and Wall Street.
What would it take for you to have a real beginning of a new, better life today? All our lives are diminished by the diminished lives of our brothers and sisters in need. Perhaps your route to greater happiness will be rolling up your sleeves and actively doing something to improve human lives and our planet. Picking up your smart phone and pressing a touch screen will do nothing. It is simply a toy, devised to make you feel better about your affluence while ignoring whatever you wish to avoid.
Break free in your mind, in your heart. This is where new beginnings are found. Your liberation is the path to the greater good. Practicing moderation, focusing your mind with meditation, caring for your own body with respect for its health and well being...these are the first steps to a new beginning, a new happiness. Learn to breathe. Open your eyes to your good fortune and stop yearning for more and more. Think of sharing, not accumulating. Look to what needs doing around you, instead of focusing on the exotic or distant.
Beginnings often seem easy, when laced with physical and emotional pleasure. However, starting something difficult to which you will remain committed, no matter what, can be frightening. Being mindful and compassionate, moment to moment, is very difficult. It is a way to a better world for human beings. The path is open to anyone. All it takes is beginning today.
The train of male-dominated oligarchy chugs along as it did on December 31st. The Bilderberg aristocrats are still calling all the shots. Protest is being strangled. Affluent youth are mesmerized with iScreens and apps. All of them are suffering from a delusion of greater personal power and freedom, when, in fact, they are slaves to Verizon, AT&T and Comcast, which are fiefs of Big Oil and Wall Street.What would it take for you to have a real beginning of a new, better life today? All our lives are diminished by the diminished lives of our brothers and sisters in need. Perhaps your route to greater happiness will be rolling up your sleeves and actively doing something to improve human lives and our planet. Picking up your smart phone and pressing a touch screen will do nothing. It is simply a toy, devised to make you feel better about your affluence while ignoring whatever you wish to avoid.
Break free in your mind, in your heart. This is where new beginnings are found. Your liberation is the path to the greater good. Practicing moderation, focusing your mind with meditation, caring for your own body with respect for its health and well being...these are the first steps to a new beginning, a new happiness. Learn to breathe. Open your eyes to your good fortune and stop yearning for more and more. Think of sharing, not accumulating. Look to what needs doing around you, instead of focusing on the exotic or distant.
Beginnings often seem easy, when laced with physical and emotional pleasure. However, starting something difficult to which you will remain committed, no matter what, can be frightening. Being mindful and compassionate, moment to moment, is very difficult. It is a way to a better world for human beings. The path is open to anyone. All it takes is beginning today.
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