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Oneness and Equality
How many of us speak and live within oneness and equality?
What is oneness and equality you ask? Well, its something you live, where you are aware of how everything is one and equal. So when you take a sip of your drink, you are aware of how your drink is one and equal to you, how the cup is something you are one and equal to, how you body is something you are one and equal to, and the breath you breathe is something one and equal to you, etc... The word "etc" here means the entirety of existence. So literally etc... to the max.
Living as oneness and equality is nothing that any religion has preached or realized. Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Taoism, or Atheism etc... Usually in religions, or atheism, people follow a set of rules of behavior that defines what you should do or not do. They are quite explicit, like don't drink alcohol, don't have an abortion, or pray a certain number of times a day etc... Though what is the overall arching goal here? What is the master rule, master motivation in all of this? Is there any logical framework behind all of this? Atheism is not excluded from these questions. In atheism, each person is still following rules of behavior, about what is good and bad to do.
Perhaps the best answer people can give is to do good by each other. Yet this is very murky, because are we doing good to everyone? Like between Russia and the United States, are we doing good to each other. And also the rest of the world, are we as citizens doing good to everyone in the world? Is that our goal? It seems very obviously not. Cause we do good FIRST to our friends and family, before strangers. Sometimes in some religions, people do charity work. Though what's the motivation here? Why do it?
Often it is said that helping people is Good. That charity is good to do. The same way that helping your friends and family is good. Its like saying that everything good is on the same level. If you do some good to someone, you are a good person. A good Christian. A good Citizen. A good person in the eyes of God, Allah, etc...
But why? What's the master rule? What's the motivation? Why do good?
Is it because it makes you feel good? Is that it?
Is it because that's what God wants you to do?
Is it because that is what is good and right?
So the reason why I'm bringing up oneness and equality is because it has nothing to do with what is good, or doing good. There is no good or bad. It is fundamentally seeing everything and everyone as one and equal. It doesn't give you a good feeling to help someone. You help someone because they ARE you. Do you see what I mean here? Helping someone else would be the same as helping yourself, because you are one and equal to the other. This way of living is satisfying and much different than how we live, and see things right now.
If everyone were to live this way, to live within and as oneness and equality, Life would become much better, much simpler, and much pain and suffering would be prevented. Because there can be no such thing as wrath or vengeance, or punishment that is motivated by desire to see a sinner or law-breaker suffer. Forgiveness becomes natural. All grudges can't exist, all memories of pain and suffering are released, forgiveness becomes the norm. The balance of power in the world and the balance of money in the world becomes reset. Life becomes about building each other, and building a world together. Wars, fighting, arguments end. All of us become the center of attention.
In order to embrace everyone and everything we need to let go of our own stories, and much of our own identity. For example, the identity that I am a Muslim, I am a Christian, I am Jewish, or I am American, I am a citizen of my country... this weighs us down, this prevents us from seeing everyone and everything, and prevents us from hugging or embracing everyone. And there is a difference between only saying what I am saying as words, and actually willing to do something about it. Committing your money, committing your life to everyone, to all as one and equal, that is a base requirement. If all is you, then you can't just stand by and watch and do nothing. Understand that what I am saying is not pretty words but actually who you become and how you live forevermore.
If you have resistance to embracing someone, if you have resistance in standing as another, in their shoes, then you are holding onto limitation in the form of some definition, some idea, some thought somewhere within you.
What you typically find in most people, pretty much all people, regardless of their religion, or lack of religion, or background is a degree of selfishness. Selfishness being the desire to have a good life for yourself. To have a family for yourself. To have a partner for yourself. To have kids for yourself. To have a house and money for yourself. That is what you find throughout the cultures and history of humanity. So even with these great religions, and great religious figures, or these great Atheist, or great Atheist figures, it comes down to nothing more than being happy and finding happiness.
For yourself of course.
Oneness and Equality is about everything, everyone, and the entirety of existence not excluding a single item, particle, thing or person.
How many of us speak and live within oneness and equality?
What is oneness and equality you ask? Well, its something you live, where you are aware of how everything is one and equal. So when you take a sip of your drink, you are aware of how your drink is one and equal to you, how the cup is something you are one and equal to, how you body is something you are one and equal to, and the breath you breathe is something one and equal to you, etc... The word "etc" here means the entirety of existence. So literally etc... to the max.
Living as oneness and equality is nothing that any religion has preached or realized. Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Taoism, or Atheism etc... Usually in religions, or atheism, people follow a set of rules of behavior that defines what you should do or not do. They are quite explicit, like don't drink alcohol, don't have an abortion, or pray a certain number of times a day etc... Though what is the overall arching goal here? What is the master rule, master motivation in all of this? Is there any logical framework behind all of this? Atheism is not excluded from these questions. In atheism, each person is still following rules of behavior, about what is good and bad to do.
Perhaps the best answer people can give is to do good by each other. Yet this is very murky, because are we doing good to everyone? Like between Russia and the United States, are we doing good to each other. And also the rest of the world, are we as citizens doing good to everyone in the world? Is that our goal? It seems very obviously not. Cause we do good FIRST to our friends and family, before strangers. Sometimes in some religions, people do charity work. Though what's the motivation here? Why do it?
Often it is said that helping people is Good. That charity is good to do. The same way that helping your friends and family is good. Its like saying that everything good is on the same level. If you do some good to someone, you are a good person. A good Christian. A good Citizen. A good person in the eyes of God, Allah, etc...
But why? What's the master rule? What's the motivation? Why do good?
Is it because it makes you feel good? Is that it?
Is it because that's what God wants you to do?
Is it because that is what is good and right?
So the reason why I'm bringing up oneness and equality is because it has nothing to do with what is good, or doing good. There is no good or bad. It is fundamentally seeing everything and everyone as one and equal. It doesn't give you a good feeling to help someone. You help someone because they ARE you. Do you see what I mean here? Helping someone else would be the same as helping yourself, because you are one and equal to the other. This way of living is satisfying and much different than how we live, and see things right now.
If everyone were to live this way, to live within and as oneness and equality, Life would become much better, much simpler, and much pain and suffering would be prevented. Because there can be no such thing as wrath or vengeance, or punishment that is motivated by desire to see a sinner or law-breaker suffer. Forgiveness becomes natural. All grudges can't exist, all memories of pain and suffering are released, forgiveness becomes the norm. The balance of power in the world and the balance of money in the world becomes reset. Life becomes about building each other, and building a world together. Wars, fighting, arguments end. All of us become the center of attention.
In order to embrace everyone and everything we need to let go of our own stories, and much of our own identity. For example, the identity that I am a Muslim, I am a Christian, I am Jewish, or I am American, I am a citizen of my country... this weighs us down, this prevents us from seeing everyone and everything, and prevents us from hugging or embracing everyone. And there is a difference between only saying what I am saying as words, and actually willing to do something about it. Committing your money, committing your life to everyone, to all as one and equal, that is a base requirement. If all is you, then you can't just stand by and watch and do nothing. Understand that what I am saying is not pretty words but actually who you become and how you live forevermore.
If you have resistance to embracing someone, if you have resistance in standing as another, in their shoes, then you are holding onto limitation in the form of some definition, some idea, some thought somewhere within you.
What you typically find in most people, pretty much all people, regardless of their religion, or lack of religion, or background is a degree of selfishness. Selfishness being the desire to have a good life for yourself. To have a family for yourself. To have a partner for yourself. To have kids for yourself. To have a house and money for yourself. That is what you find throughout the cultures and history of humanity. So even with these great religions, and great religious figures, or these great Atheist, or great Atheist figures, it comes down to nothing more than being happy and finding happiness.
For yourself of course.
Oneness and Equality is about everything, everyone, and the entirety of existence not excluding a single item, particle, thing or person.
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