Integration 2

The will to integrate new and big things is a spontaneous impulse, often intensified by difficult circumstances. All of us live in difficult circumstances. Even a prince like Siddharta left his privileged situation to become a renunciate and later a Buddha.

How can knowledge of mind help us succeed in integrating new things?

According to some philosophical traditions, mind is the most important factor in everything. Old power structures have a tendency to lose contact with mind and thus be vulnerable to change. Some old structures are very robust, however. Many are unwilling to resign. Everything new is not good.

Mind values are truth, justice, beauty, freedom, joy and love. If we relate to these values directly, old power structures are likely to fall.

These values are not academical theories but living realities, often quite childish in style.

Sometimes we leave difficult circumstances just to find that the new circumstances are more difficult. Maybe we asked for it? If we do not want more of wisdom and compassion, we will get the opposite.