RIGHTEOUSNESS

 

The sky is leaden and the snow that fell Friday still exists in small patches here and there, especially on elevated surfaces such as the woodpile. I hope that beautiful Autumnal weather isn't behind us, but if it is so be it.

I am bereft of ideas to write about. Several things crossed my mind this weekend but I don't remember them now.

I do know that I am sick and tired of the polarization of this world. I talk about the need to give up beliefs. There so much self-righteousness . I suspect that the self-righteousness is inversely correlated with the authenticity of the belief. When one feels they are correct in a belief there is no need for righteousness.

I understand the world is mad and we are all anxious to fix it. However, some of us tend to jump on any band wagon that passes by if it seems attractive and is sponsored by our favorite authority figures we join up. It becomes a religious cause; science, ethics and introspection get left behind.

We see the corruption of the world. We know that almost everything we hear from the main-stream media is tainted. This dieing world is still controlled by power and money. Almost all causes have somebody behind the scenes cashing in.

Let us look at our beliefs; are they ethical, are they loving, what is the result of the belief mean to you, the world, will everybody benefit?

Smugness and righteousness are reflection of ego and when we have those feelings we need to reassess where were at. Love is always ethical, I don't think ego ever is.

We are not going to change the world by championing causes. When we know in our heart what is loving and right we just do it.

When we learn to focus on the love that is around us we will see change. When we can alleviate the torment in our own minds, our anger, our jealousy, our grievances we will begin to see reality instead of the distortion we see through our filter.

It all boils down to, 'we need to clean up our own act'. We need to give up those ego-filters so we can see what is really there. We are love but the love has a hard time shining through our filters; also, it is difficult to see the love shining from our neighbors.

Changing the world begins with each one of us. We have moments of knowing we are love. We have moments of seeing the love shining from others eyes. We can stretch those moments. They can be our reality.

I say again I write these blogs because I am attempting to learn, I am stumbling along my path like everybody else. I am tired of my nuttiness though and I can envision and end to it [well sometimes I can].

We can get off our high horses and our low horses and smile at everyone we meet. We will see love. Oh, it is so wonderful when we feel love. We are love, aren't we.

Love and Peace, Gregg