"It is no measure of health
to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."
Jai Krishnamurti
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| Leunig |
If we had to come up with one word to describe the controlling forces in our
modern society that word would have to be 'fear.' It is at the root of all kinds of troubles which loom large in our current modern world.
We are not only fed a multitude of reasons as to why we need to be fearful but because we believe that what we think we know and what we perceive with our senses is true and real we become entangled. The whole spiral of delusory perceptions spins around relentlessly due to the momentum of those inherently faulty beliefs.
This is the merry go round of samsara and it can carry on turning indefinitely if we let it...
Thankfully though, we have a choice as to whether we buy into all of this or not.
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We are not only fed a multitude of reasons as to why we need to be fearful but because we believe that what we think we know and what we perceive with our senses is true and real we become entangled. The whole spiral of delusory perceptions spins around relentlessly due to the momentum of those inherently faulty beliefs.
This is the merry go round of samsara and it can carry on turning indefinitely if we let it...
Thankfully though, we have a choice as to whether we buy into all of this or not.
Continue reading in Return to Forever