Helpless power 2

Strong experiences and dreams we have as young will influence us under the rest of our life and sometimes force us to act in compulsive ways. Popularly said: boys will be boys.
It is a mind phenomenon. Whatever we get into our mind - with strong feeling - will eventually manifest externally.
To be young is to be exposed to intense instincts and ruthless people of all ages. The experience is sometimes unbearable. It creates dreams, for boys often about power.
The problem is when these dreams manifest at an age and in a situation where consideration, compassion, sophistication, kindness and sensitivity would be appropriate. Instead we get blunt force.
Like all mind phenomenon this can be dealt with through analysis, understanding and systematic re-programming by the individual concerned. Others can not do the task.
More direct methods as resistance, violence, laws, blackmail, public debate, nasty tricks and the like will never work on their own. They can misfire, as they might lead to an analysis about unfair methods rather than about the real problem.
The best is of course to have an environment for young people where complex dreams including cooperation, generosity and the power of understanding can flourish.

Back to base 2

What is the ideal life? What about this: We grow up. We leave our home. We enter the alien country, learn new things, work and become imprisoned. We escape, return to our home land, but now we can enter the glass tower.
The outline of this story is from an old Tibetan legend, retold in "Wholeness Lost and Wholeness Regained" by Herbert V. Guenther.
In earlier times, artisans did this. They left their home and wandered to other countries to learn their art from one master here and another master there. Eventually they returned home, but now as masters on their own right.
The shamans also made a journey to learn their trade, eventually returning with the ability to help those at home.
So life is not only about achieving something out there, but to return with new knowledge.

Intelligence 2

We see what we expect to see, so if the intelligence services of the world are trained in seeing peace and harmony, we will have a world of peace and harmony.
The world itself is of course in a state of constant change. If we see that change as positive, everything is positive. If we see that change with fear, the world is fearsome.
If we look for the positive results of the change, we will see them and we will support the weak parts so the result always is positive.
These days it is possible to collect enormous amounts of information, and still not find the interesting truth. The truth is in mind. It is behind the facts.
Mind is not the same as the brain. The brain can be manipulated.
Mind does not need any manipulation. The honest truth is good enough.

Stone wall

Stone wall
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Unawareness 2

The world we live in is not the world but our own mind. If we lived in some kind of objective world we would have to deal with it in a certain way. Now we live in our own mind, so we have to deal with it in another way.
It is rather confusing, as the two images - objective world and mind - are imposed on each other.
The objective world seems to be there. If I look the other way and run into the table I might get hurt. The table is there. If I run into the table, it is decided by my mind. The table did not decide I should run into it.
I did not decide I should run into the table now. I did it earlier. I made something negative. When it matured long after, I ran into the table. The decision came from my mind. I could not avoid it. i was looking the other way. If I had not done that negative thing, I had not run into the table.
If we live in our mind, what should we relate to in order to avoid running into tables and other bad things?
The essential principle is to look for the good for others. Loving kindness.
So good so far. In the normal world confusion, challenge and distraction is the normal. How can we hold on to loving kindness when we are disturbed constantly?
We are parts of a complicated social interaction. If we treat others bad, the general situation will be bad. Do we have to treat others bad in order to get something not so bad? No, that is a mistake. Bad will always lead to bad.
Can we mistake good actions for bad? Yes, that is possible, in particular for surprises. If we regret a good action, the negative effects are very strong.
As always on mind level, communication and information is the way to avoid misunderstandings and problems. Secrecy is dangerous.