We must resist and survive the virulent consumerism driving all of us to seek fulfillment in things. We are conditioned by consumerism to kill our own souls chasing after tails of transience.
"Freedom from all desire is eternity. All attachment implies fear, for all things are transient. And fear makes one a slave. This freedom from attachment does not come with practice; it is natural, when one knows one's true being." N.M.
What is the way out? Every sage and avatar has told us that attachment and craving are the root of suffering. How ironic that the prevalent worldview of humanity literally breeds attachment, imbues each generation with unsatisfied cravings. No wonder we live with war and greed. The way out? The good news is that enlightenment awaits each of us. Freedom from suffering, a great awakening. The bad news is that we must reach a state of desperation before we are driven in the right direction. Given the powerful weaponry available, it just might be nukes or something as terrible and dramatic to make us turn to the sun. Or we annihilate ourselves. Either way lies enlightenment. We have taken the way of suffering, Jesus demonstrates that. We can choose a way that ends suffering, Buddha urges that.
"There is nothing to practice. To know yourself, be yourself. To be yourself, stop imagining yourself to be this or that. Just be. Set your true nature. Emerge. Don't disturb your mind with seeking." N.M.
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