Last update : 12 / 1 / 2019
3 / 1 / 2019
Demoralized ?
In our time, it would be difficult to not understand the meaning of the verb "to demoralize". Just see by yourself how this word is made up.
10 / 1 / 2019
Hygiene and physical health, but mental health and what ?
Everyone will understand without difficulty the relationship between health and hygiene, i.e. all the principles and care maintaining the normal functioning of the body.
But do we still remember the principles and care to maintain good mental health, what is usually called sanity ? What can be this set of principles and rules, not to say knowledge of what is good or bad for oneself and others, that maintain mental and emotional balance ?
There is a word or more precisely 2 words, which are very similar, to summarize this topic, words that we don't want to hear about in our Neo spirituality, but which now very fortunately come back in speeches of very intellectual and serious people who are not particularly interested in spirituality, but who nevertheless are perhaps far more spiritual in their talks than so-called gurus and awakening teachers.
These two words are simply "ethics and moral", and we could also say Dharma, cosmic and natural order, obvious rules of conduct and thinking for the well-being of our human condition and the one of our society and culture. How could we sincerely ignore in spirituality what moral is, the most evident principles of right and wrong, if we want to spiritualize our life, and also and nothing more, we cannot forget it, wish to simply be civilized ?
12 / 1 / 2019
Impossible love
When we cannot love the others unconditionally, we can always smile and respect them without effort, and even engage a dialogue. It's at the very least smarter than to hate them.
In our world and with all the experiences we live, love can easily become dubious if not insane, as we know the worst crimes have always been committed in the name of love for instance.
But as far as respect is concerned, it's very simple to understand, we respect the others, Mother Nature, life, the cosmic order, freedom of expression, the beliefs of everyone or whatever, or we don't. It's very obvious and there is no question to ask about.
The funny thing concerning respect is that everybody knows perfectly well what to be respected by the others means, but it might become very difficult if not sometimes impossible the other way round. And we may really wonder why. It's still probably the fault of the ego, always that petty demon. Selfishness, greed and hypocrisy are obviously unrelated to that kind attitude and behavior, not in the XXI century anyway. Come on..., Western spirituality is far beyond such lousy concepts. They have been assimilated in our culture as something very natural and even indispensable to live like anybody else.
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