Lets Be Honest (Opinion) When I was six years old, my cousin and I decided that we would explore lying, lying with a straight face was key. We did it for a year. After that, at age seven I decided that lying was not a good thing to do. I would get into too much trouble, it was better to simply tell the truth. Since then, I have tried to live as honestly as I could. I learned that to be honest goes much further than just refraining from telling lies. Actually, it leads to integrity, which I have already written about. Living with as much integrity (being true to yourself) is key to living a spiritual life and to having as much joy and happiness as one can, every day. That is why, when I reveal aspects of myself through writing these articles, if one can detect anything hypocritical, it serves me to know about it, so that I can correct for it, since I am quite capable of being self-deluded. Unfortunately, it is quite rare that anyone is bold and caring enough to do that. Instead, it is more likely that I will simply be judged unfavorably, silently. Occasionally I will strike a chord in one of our beloved wackos, and they will spew out a lifetime of effluvium in my direction, on facebook, in front of everyone, lacking all decorum and respect, sitting safely behind their computers and I have the honor of swallowing it whole and spitting it out over my balcony which looms high above the ground, and looking for the love hidden in the goop, which is always moving me closer to loving my enemies. If everyone was kind, respectful, and loving as most of you are, I probably would wallow in your love and never progress to a higher plateau. Popularity is fickle and I have been both popular and unpopular at times and though popular is more fun, it is so fleeting and capricious, that it has as little value as todays weather will have tomorrow. So, I would never seek to be popular, for those reasons. Instead I would prefer to be honest and to live a life of integrity. And suffer the slings and arrows of those outrageously, unfortunate persons who project their pain on me, making me christ-like in my willingness (without much choice) to receive their negative energy. However, with time, perhaps, this will occur less often as my credibility grows through my good actions and intentions. This has always been the case, as I am someone who is not vindictive and I dont carry hatred or grudges, though I have become wary of certain folks who through their actions have displayed a certain lack of character. With them, I am friendly and polite, but have no desire to engage them further than this as I prefer to be surrounded only by loving and trustworthy people. Having been raised and acculturated in the belly of the beast (USA), I can feel compassion as opposed to distain for my fellow countrymen, as we have had to overcome the worst conditioning on the planet. And of course, many are still struggling with all of the ramifications of this, striving to achieve some balance and sanity. It is ike having had abusive parents. Children who come from this horrid kind of background end up either psychotic or super people if they are able to transcend it. Thus it is, coming from a culture based on lies. And we come here, sometimes like a disease, to plague the people of Ecuador and to spread our sickness all across the planet. But this may be an exaggeration, because I know of so many exceptions to this rule, who spread their love throughout the valley, in their own inimitable manner. If we wish to be honest, we must admit that this is true (always, in my opinion only). We need not be apologetic, as it is hardly anyones fault, just a result of living in a world enslaved by capitalism and thinking that we were free. But this idea of humanity waking up, clearly has to do with each of us assuming full repsonsibility for our lives, which means that at some point, we need to coalesce and unite, so that we can overthrow this yolk of tyranny that despoils everything, and not go on tolerating it. Because, for one, it is in the toleration of it, that we become implicitly guilty. Of course, everyone feels completely impotent as individuals in the face of it, simply because we are. The powers to be seem to feel that they can do whatever they like, since there is no one who can do anything about it. It is only possible to exert any power if we all could be united, but this seems virtually impossible, yet it is what is necessary. That is why I hammer this idea a lot, because it needs to start wherever one is. This has to do with living a life with as much integrity as possible
Posted on: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 12:38:15 +0000
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