Superiority/Inferiority
April 22, 2008 at 2:24 pm (life, philosophy)
After a couple of (really fun) weeks with kids and g-kids, I’m bursting with new ideas for speculation.
First, I am not superior to anyone. I have had experiences others haven’t, and I have learned things that others have yet to, but the same is true of every single entity. Second, I am not inferior to anyone by the same token.
The things we learn are contributions to the whole, and every lesson ever learned by anyone, ever, is what the whole has become (and is becoming).
Now that I understand this, I can focus on learning things, and integrating those lessons that I believe will benefit the whole. Because if it doesn’t benefit the whole, it can’t possibly benefit me or any other individual entity.
When an altercation arises, we feel that it is paramount to establish which party is right. How does that benefit the whole? A better approach would be an attempt to accept the fact that both perspectives are correct from some viewpoint. A personal victory over someone else’s stand is not any victory, but a minimization of one’s own perspective in relation to all perspectives. In other words, if any point of view can be dominated, all points can, and no perspective can stand alone.
My whole thought process is erroneous!
Stephanie said,
May 6, 2008 at 12:06 am
I think about this often. How everyone’s truth it right. Not that it is right or wrong, but just their own truth. I do wonder though how you explain violence. I know that when someone hits or rapes someone that they are seeking out there own fear and the only truth they know (their perspective), but that is forcefully crossing over into someone elses space, and hurting others. I am just really confused about this point and have not figured out an answer for it. What r ur thoughts on it?
bettybuss said,
May 6, 2008 at 12:51 am
To focus on something that may or may not happen to me (or someone I care about), is to give energy to it. Just focusing on what’s going on in the moment, and attempting to generate love and positive energy about it is the important issue. Blessing and forgiving undesirable occurrences is one way to minimize the attraction of violence in your own life. Let the things that you are not involved in be. The universe will take care of balancing itself. You can only control what you attract to you, and judging others’ activities (and what they attract to themselves) is a useless dispersion of energy.
Stephanie said,
May 6, 2008 at 1:42 am
That is a great thought. I need to take a moment and let that sink in. Yous comment is easy to follow and common sence thinking, but of coarse like most things it is more involved than what is present.