Giving to Life
As the spiritual inspiration to transcend unconscious habitual patterns becomes more real, it’s a natural impulse to give to life without wanting anything in return. As human beings we love to serve, whether the needs of others or upholding the standards of a nation in the armed forces. To give to life, however, doesn’t require anything other than to acknowledge the intrinsic good which is always present underneath any emotional negativity.
To give to life is to give up the right to ruminate on the past as any brooding or resentment of another, or the outcome of a situation. Emotion is a corrosive energy that needs the co-operation of the person to retain a presence in existence. To exert its position of suppression, the person surrenders the innate power of the spirit, which is everybody’s sacred birthright. The spiritual element of human beings is intelligence imbued with the potential to be conscious of the source of immortal life.
The fixative that bonds the body of pain to the flesh is the rational mind which, in its unabated mental processing, becomes attached to the momentum of the world. The person has little inclination, when engrossed in the froth of living, to give – except that is to the demands of the workplace or their personal affairs. The glory of life is reflected all around as the trees or stunning clouds, but rarely truly acknowledged as a pause to give thanks to life. Everything needs acknowledgment to affirm its place on the earth, without which it erodes and eventually disappears. The deforestation of vast tracts of land, and species on the verge of extinction, are effects of humanity’s primary focus on the acquisition of material gain, while each day the deterioration of the planet worsens.
Love, as the unifying power of existence, is disappearing from the world. As a consequence, matter weakens and is no longer able to support the psychic structure of the body of humanity. Climate change, electromagnetic pollution and the degradation of life at every level of society are effects of the absence of love on earth. The world cannot avoid what’s coming as the confrontation with its past transgressions. But it is possible to make a difference to the greater good by making time to give to life in gratitude for the privilege of being alive.
I do enjoy your blogs and most often learn insights and agree but not always. Possibly could you say more why you use the word ”corrosive” as a descriptive here for emotions?
The corrosive force of emotion is not unlike the dirty-brown reddish substance discharged from an old battery. Emotion is a destructive energy which forms as a body of self within us all. The emotional self consists of all the pain and suffering gathered since birth. One of the characteristics of emotion is that it is either a positive feeling such as excitement or a negative feeling such as depression. The swing of the pendulum effect between the highs and lows of emotional living has been adopted as a universal way of life.
Love is not an emotion nor is the joy of life. These are natural states of being which are present whenever the emotional self is quiescent. There is no negative effect to the state of love because it’s not subject to the conditions of time and experience. Love is not an experience but discovered afresh every moment.
I go into this subject frequently in other articles, and in my e-books you can get the whole story.
I think emotions are a natural aspect of a neurobiological system, part of our signaling system, giving us information about what is happening, is something in resonance with us or not, however our society has taught us to think there is something wrong with us, the indoctrination of our society to keep us in line and following the rules and roles of the group. The indoctrination and conditioning to suppress both feelings and sexuality is part of the socially fabricated system of control. This indoctrination is perpetuated by religions and governments and almost all social institutions so we get locked into these patterns of negative emotions and lose our ability to tune into our own natural ability to guide ourselves through life, knowing when something is in resonance with us and when it is not. The problem is not the emotions but the suppression of emotions and the inability to tune in and adjust ourselves to the flow of life.
The natural aspect of the neurobiological system is instinct, which is the innate intelligence within all organic life. Emotion is the unnatural aspect of existence from which the other species are spared. This is why the human animal is so dangerous as it’s the only unhappy animal, due to its emotional attachment to the world.
It’s simple to tune in and adjust to the flow of life. Next time you go to get angry or frustrated, it’s to surrender immediately the right to be emotional. That’s not suppression, but truly living in the authenticity of the spirit of life.
There are unhappy animals.
The creatures that we love are being what they are every moment, with no psychological dependence on yesterday or the past. Animals can indeed experience pain and discomfort but, unlike the human animal, they don’t hold onto the past and make a problem of being in existence. Unhappiness arises from the uncertainty of living and the absence of any permanence in the world. The human mind struggles to make sense of such an alien existence, since it continually reflects on the negativity gathered since birth. The spiritual process is the gradual detachment from the ignorance all must resolve within themselves in time. My teaching is directed towards this momentous undertaking.