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The virtuous human being
| 11.1 |
Where do we start?
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| Given the understandings of Chapter 10- "A new beginning" we face the need to redress not just our internal understandings but the model of the world around us. Seemingly when we consider the size of the task, to recreate a world without the influence and infection of the Gods, without the destructive influence of EGO, appears insurmountable. The sheer size of such a task appears daunting. Where then do we start? What is the first step on this path of new beginning? | ||
| 11.1.1 | The challenge to find balance within | |
| By far our greatest challenge is the balance within. This is the original intention of ME, to seek to find balance of within. While the issues of influences of society, of relationships, of the reality of living in communities with different values and beliefs than ourselves is important to also address, our starting point nonetheless should be from the point in terms to seek to find and answer to the alignment and co-ordination of SOL and EGO. | ||
| From without, we see a web of negative influence to realizing our potential extending to the very reaches of human knowledge and social organisations. Hopefully, we can now see clearly that the influence of our genetic creators permeates almost every philosophy, every thought, every action, every institution, every government, every organisation, every city, every family. For the Gods left not just their legacy of existence and power, their knowledge (albeit fragmented), they left us their behaviour, which we faithfully and unwittingly follow even today. | ||
| 11.2.2 | We now understand the nature and behaviour of EGO | |
| Thanks to the previous chapters, we now have a much better understanding on the origin, nature and behaviour of EGO. | ||
| By definition in the chapter on EGO, we see that ego simply has no bounds. It has no self control. We also know the motive of EGO- to distract us at all times from the realization of the now moment, by pushing our consciousness into anticipations of the future or judgments of the past. | ||
| Therefore when we say we need to find a means of controlling something that has no self control, we do not mean suppression. Suppression of something that know no bounds and has no self control, or worse still, denial is fraught with danger. | ||
| As we have discussed, there is most likely a relationship between this and the onset of terrible internal physical conflict, the denial of desire and the denial of ego. | ||
| 11.2.3 | We now understand more about the nature of SOL | |
| While we have not yet reached a deeper understanding of SOL, we nonetheless can now see that our conscience, that which is within us, that which is the gift from our creators creator is the voice within that gives us light and the quality of peace and tranquility we seek. | ||
| 11.1.4 | Finding a means to reduce the effects and influence of EGO in preference to SOL | |
| What is required then is something that systematically disarms and disenfranchises the ego. The only system that enables that to occur in the present moment is values. Therefore we must seek to consider a set of values that disenfranchises ego and enables sol to operate within the variables that we operate. | ||
| Therefore, it makes sense that we now consider value systems that provide the hope of somehow reducing the effects of ego and enhancing the chance of SOL. | ||
| 11.1.5 | Beyond a new beginning is a new life | |
| It is the potential voyage beyond the understandings of a new beginning that we we will find a particular path. It is beyond the forests and mountains of existing ideas that we may find a green meadow of peace and balance. The place within where, if we listen long enough, we can begin to feel the answers to the questions we set out to find from Chapter one. | ||
| This path beyond the realizations of "A new beginning" is within. It the action of specific knowledge of living within. The aligned way of living- being. | ||
| We seek to begin the putting in action of these realizations into a way of life as the second major objective of this chapter. | ||
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