We notice that there are many of us are very unhappy with the current situation in the world. We care for the world and want to help or make the world to become a better place for all beings to live in. We know that if the world is not at peace, there will be no peace in our own personal life as well. If the country is having problems, there is no peaceful condition for us to enjoy a good quality life. If the world is having problems, it is difficult for us to be able to live at peace in anywhere in the world.
We want to have good and healthy living environment. We want peace and harmony among all nations and races. We want good, wise and selfless leaders to lead the world. We want all beings to respect and love each other without anger, hatred, violence and killings.
We also know that there are some people that don’t want the world to be in peace, out of selfish intentions, they create disharmony and fear in the world. Some people just being very selfish not caring for the environment and damaging the environment consciously or unconsciously. Most of us might get very angry and frustrated with this. There’s nothing wrong to feel angry about this. But anger and hatred cannot stop this from happening. We should feel compassionate towards these people because they are being influenced or blinded by ignorance. They don’t have love, peace, compassion and wisdom in them. That’s why they are doing things that are hurting other people and themselves in return (the law of cause and effect).
Being upset, angry and hatred towards the bad situations that derive from wrong doings in the world now will not help the world to improve or to become better.
Anger and hatred cannot solve problems. They cannot remove negativity, anger and hatred that are existing in the world.
The only things that can stop ignorance, anger, hatred and violence, is compassion and wisdom. Only compassion and wisdom can help the world to change and evolve, to be peaceful.
This compassion and wisdom have to start with our own self. Then only we can spread compassion and wisdom to other beings, and share love and peace with the world.
If we ourselves are not compassionate, lack of wisdom, and are full of anger and hatred, then how can we share love and peace with others and help the world to become a peaceful harmonious place?
If we don’t know how to take care ourselves and don’t know how to deal with our own mental and emotional tensions, then how can we take care of other beings and help others to relieve the mental and emotional tensions that are surrounding us in the world?
If we are full of negativity, how are we going to bring positivity and positive changes into the world?
Start with our own evolution. Love ourselves, be kind and be compassionate towards our own self.
When we are compassionate towards ourselves, we won’t let ourselves to be over-powered by the impurities in our mind and be free from the influence of the selfish ego. All our actions are out of compassion and selflessness. Without intention to change the world, without expectation that the world will be changed, without discrimination of good or bad beings, we perform all actions that can be done to help the world to evolve. There is no anger and hatred. There is no disappointment and discontentment. There is no frustration and unhappiness.
Like the sun, the air, the water, the earth and the space. They give, provide and support all living beings and non-living beings to be exist in the universe. They perform their action of giving, providing and supporting unceasingly, selflessly, out of compassion, unlimitedly, unconditionally, without discrimination, without intention to give, without expectation to benefit anyone or to receive anything in return, they just give, provide and support. It doesn’t matter if human beings are polluting the world, damaging the nature, and condemning the sun, the wind, the water and the earth for being too much or too little, they still continuously to give without anger, hatred and disappointment.
That is real compassion. Complete selfless. That is what we all are in our true nature. We all are selfless like the sun, the air, the water, the earth and the space, but we are being disconnected with these selflessness due to the veil of ignorance and the selfish ego. We become selfish and being influenced by all the impurities in the mind for us to act and react through thoughts, actions and speech, and create the chain reaction of good and bad karma, the cycle of birth and death.
All our actions are being influenced by the likes and dislikes, craving and aversion that comes from the selfish and self-protective ego. And all these actions bring other consequences that are not necessary that are beneficial and what we want. We will be constantly being affected by all these happenings in our life that derive from our past accumulated good and bad karma.
In our true nature, we all are selfless and compassionate, and are free from the thinking mind, the limited intellect, the selfish ego, and are free from craving and ignorance. If all beings reunite with this true nature, and are compassionate and wise, the world will be free from unnecessary and meaningless harmful wrong doings that come from human beings that are not happy, not peaceful and not satisfied due to the identification with the ego and due to the absence of love, peace, compassion and wisdom.
If we have love, peace, compassion and wisdom in us, we will know how to be happy and be at peace, will not be disturbed or affected by the world, but at the same time we are aware of what is happening in the world. We know what is right, what is wrong but we are not being affected by neither of them. Out of compassion without selfish intention and expectation, we can perform many actions that need to be done and that can be done, to help other beings to realize the wisdom and compassion in them. But before that can happen, we ourselves need to be compassionate and wise. We ourselves must have love and are at peace. Then only we can share this compassion, wisdom, love and peace with other beings, and guide them to realize their true Self is love, peace, compassion and wisdom.
Only when we realize the wisdom and compassion in us, and start to reflect on our own thoughts, actions and speech, then we will have the awareness of what is right and what is wrong, what we should do and shouldn’t do. This justification of right and wrong, should do and shouldn’t do is coming from the wisdom (true knowledge) within the true Self, and not coming from the intellectual mind under the function of the limited and conditioned intellect and the selfish ego, which is influenced by what the mind likes and doesn’t like, or what the mind thinks is good or not good, or what the mind agree or disagree with.
Things or knowledge that we studied from books or from somebody who told us or taught us since we were born until now, it’s not necessary that these things or knowledge are absolutely true and correct. We were being manipulated or brain washed by so many informations that come from many impure minds.
Knowledge that will remove ignorance, anger, hatred, doubts, arrogance, jealousy, selfishness, discrimination, disharmony, violence, depression, greed, ill-will, fear and worry are true knowledge. Knowledge that will promote all these impurities are incorrect knowledge.
Knowledge and actions that are based on self-control (not being controlled or influenced by any influences that are not our own self; not trying to control others to be the way that we want them to be but only be the master of our own self), compassion (unconditional loving kindness) and selflessness (unselfish; not coming from the ego) are pure knowledge and pure actions that cannot be judged by impure minds which are being conditioned or influenced by selfish intention and expectation.
If we want to help the world, please help ourselves first. Rise above anger, hatred, selfishness, expectation, craving and aversion. Without being affected by what is happening in the world, out of compassion, selflessly we give and share love, peace, compassion and wisdom to every beings without fear and worry, without frustration and expectation, without attachment to our actions and the fruit of actions.
Be peaceful.
Be happy.
