Being In The World, But Not Of It

Like most things within this malleable and ever-changing plane of Maya, goodness cannot (and will not) grow in places where the conditions have not been met to enable it to take root and to thrive (and this occurs on multiple levels since goodness can exist while being ignored, oppressed, and/or dismissed).

Our societies, it appears (for however long this lasts)–at the present moment–have all failed to serve as healthy environments where the qualities, and realities, that humans claim that they value, and want can truly and fully flourish (even if just for themselves and people “who look like them” in body and/or ego).

This is simply because these qualities have not been activated and cultivated within the people, institutions, and customs that make up “our world,” and, instead, the majority (we know based on behaviors and outcomes, not based on whether people consider themselves to be a part of any given majority or not) have put their efforts and energies into delusions of grandiose superiority/specialness, fear, hatred, violence, and common greed (among other destructive idiocies that fuel patterns of destruction).

Peace, justice, love, kindness, understanding, honesty, intelligent problem-solving, and so forth are absent in many places because these qualities are not nurtured, nor sustained, within the people who influence and shape the environments and worlds around them (which is everyone). Those who flee feudal systems of oppression and slavery create the same for others at the first opportunity to dehumanize others without batting an eye. Those who flee genocide and see its inhumanity turn around and commit the same atrocities against others, and so on and so forth.

Human societies feel unsafe (for some more than others and to varying degrees) because they are unsafe as long as the individuals and communities within our species fail to make themselves safe to be around (in physical to psychological ways).

So, Beautiful Creator, while observing the constant play of degeneracy carry itself out in ways that are large and small, and in people who are “large and small,” on a daily basis (often for illusions of, and desperation for, social, emotional, egoic, and/or financial “rewards”), remember that, fortunately, your soul is not bound to the destruction of this world and is eternally free from this nonsense.

In your own personal vessel of body, mind, and spirit, you, like a beautiful lotus growing in the cesspool of ignorance that can be found all around, can create the right conditions within you to rise above and beyond this mess untouched and uncontaminated.

Stay grounded in Spirit, pure in heart, expressing your divine essence (not a basic wild/dysregulated animal nature), and unattached, and non-participatory, in the ongoing cycle of Karmic bondage to destruction, evil, and misery in this world. Do and be better.