Just Believe!

– Ce înseamnă „a îmblânzi”? întrebă micul prinț. – E un lucru de mult dat uitării, zise vulpea. Înseamnă „a-ţi crea legături”… – A-ţi crea legături? – Desigur, zise vulpea. Tu nu eşti deocamdată pentru mine decât un băieţaş, aidoma cu o sută de mii de alţi băieţaşi. Iar eu nu am nevoie de tine. Şi nici tu n-ai nevoie de mine. Eu nu sunt pentru tine decât o vulpe, aidoma cu o sută de mii de alte vulpi. Dar dacă tu mă îmblânzeşti, vom avea nevoie unul de altul. Tu vei fi, pentru mine, fără seamăn în lume. Eu voi fi, pentru tine, fără seamăn în lume.. . – Încep să înţeleg, zise micul prinţ.  E undeva o floare… mi se pare că m-a îmblânzit… – Se prea poate, zise vulpea. Pe Pământ întâlneşti tot soiul de lucruri… – O! Dar nu e pe Pământ, zise micul prinţ. Vulpea se arătă foarte nedumerită: – Pe altă planetă? – Da. – Pe planeta aceea sunt vânători? – Nu. – Interesant. Dar găini? – Nici. – Nimic nu e desăvârşit, suspină vulpea. Vulpea însă se întoarse la gândurile ei: – Viaţa mea e veşnic ...

      Compassion is the state of who we truly are .  At birth we are compassion but that compassion gets buried by the egos that come from conditioning as instinct, survival, identity and societal agreement.       Buddha’s 4 Noble Truth s come in because they teach us about clinging. 1. The first truth begins with the understanding that there is suffering in the world. There is suffering but we don’t have to personally suffer. 2. The second truth teaches that suffering comes from desire.  3. The third truth is that we can end suffering by not clinging to desire. 4. The fourth truth is the Noble 8-Fold Path, the path the Buddha recommends to end suffering: right view, right intention, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness and right concentration.                   Anger that comes from compassion is an anger that arises from desire , th...

Learning about how to control the ego leads to a state of permanent enquiry, a mature state.  In school we get an emotional reward from the teacher or ourselves as to success or failure, we attach to those emotions and this also becomes part of our ego – and is the basis of our “learning” process at school.   But first we need to understand conditioning and how this builds up ego . There are political aspects of our conditioning, and words we might use are  indoctrination, manipulation propaganda etc .  Conditioning is a natural process that we all go through in our education and upbringing , and it is far broader than any political description. In his books (The Four Agreements and The Fifth Agreement) – App A, Don Miguel Riaz describes this conditioning as agreements – a far gentler term. We go through our education and upbringing until eventually we agree with what society and our parents want us to agree with. I prefer to call this process “conditioning” beca...

  So how does man fit in to the system that is Nature? What is his role in that system?  How do we educate for that role?  These are all deeply philosophical questions and are difficult to address without some form of postulation. I begin by seeing education as being concerned with the whole being . Whatever the whole being is, it is something we are born with, nature gave it to us so if we know what the whole being is, then educating that whole being has to be part of nature.   So what is this whole being? I intend to address 3 aspects of humanity - mind, energy and body, and initially not address the question of r eligion or spirituality (as I develop consideration of the mind that will become clearer). Let us begin first by addressing the question of the body . In recent times in the West we have begun to see deterioration in the condition of the human body. Whilst science has made huge advances in medicine the human body has become subject to more and more di...