I have often
heard it being said and indeed I have had the thought myself upon occasion,
that it is easy for us Westerners living in an affluent and protected
environment, in which there is neither life-threatening suffering and hardships
nor elemental catastrophes on a large scale to be endured, to be grateful for
the abundance of life’s riches. Easy for us to enjoy the various amenities and
pleasures it affords us. However to this I would reply: all the more reason
that we should appreciate and make the most of it in a grateful attitude of
mind. Due to the natural, all-pervading law that like calls forth like, it is
actually our duty to enjoy and appreciate these easy-going conditions we were
born in order to create as much joy in the collective as possible. This is the
surest and indeed the only way to relieve the suffering of the masses. To
suffer with them in empathy or to rail against the injustice of it and to condemn
the apparently responsible parties for the misery in the world only serves to
multiply the existing darkness. Whereas loving compassion towards the suffering,
prayer and a mindful attitude towards oneself, Mother Nature and ones immediate
fellow beings, are effective remedies to alleviate suffering and to bring light
and love into the darkness in this world of ours.
There is a kind of love which unifies and unites and one that renders us poignantly - at times even painfully - aware of boundaries, limitations and our separateness. The mastership of true loving is to attain the awareness of the first and to henceforth exist in this state even whilst passing through personal experiences of the love that separates.
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