Key issues with modern man

* Accumulated stress

Does Stress and Suffering come from outside?

The answer is No

This is the most fundamental point in transformation exercise. A man who sees this has taken the first right step in right direction. Without right direction, no positive change is possible.

“He who blames others has a long way to go on his journey. He who blames himself is halfway there. He who blames no one has arrived” – Chinese Proverb

* Lack of mindfulness

Does Stress and Suffering come from outside?

The answer is No

The stress does not come from outside, only the triggers for stress and suffering come from outside. We have sowed a lot of seeds of suffering inside us over the years and they sit in our beings like an explosive gun powder. The outside world only provides sparks that sets us in flames This is the most fundamental point in transformation exercise. A man who sees this has taken the first right step in right direction. Without right direction, no positive change is possible .

“He who blames others has a long way to go on his journey. He who blames himself is halfway there. He who blames no one has arrived”
– Chinese Proverb

* Over Thinking

“Mind is a useful servant, but a dangerous master” – Osho

Our thinking keeps us scattered all over the place and hence we are not mindful. Thinking has two main bye products i.e Desires and Fears, both of which torment us thus keeping us in the vicious circle of thinking Mind is a tool and like any tool, it must be used by the user as needed. However, human consciousness is reaching the point of singularity where the mind has become the master and is now using its user. This is now becoming a crisis for the modern man and a man is torn with fears and desires. As per NLP experts, an average man gets anywhere between 50,000 to 70,000 thoughts per day and in the NLP language, this is called as DDG (Deleting, distorting and generalizing). There is too much traffic of thoughts.

Here it is important to point that movement of mind is useful and by no means, should it be made to become dull. This is precisely walking the middle path, wherein just like a string instrument it should not be too loose or tight. Mindfulness is knowing when to use it to the fullest and when to let it relax, thereby achieving the golden mean or the middle path.

When you chase every thought, you are like a dog chasing every stick thrown at him. You should be like a lion which does not chase the stick but the thrower. So you can only throw a stick at lion only one time in your life
– Milarepa

* Lack of Unity in a Man

– Absence of Unity in a Man is one of man’s primary problem as per Russian mystic George Gurdjieff.

– Man is like a caliphate in which the caliph changes after everyone hour. The new caliph can undo, redo or destroy what an earlier caliph had done.

– Each caliph responds to a stimulus -in other words, a man known as John to the world may be an aggregation of many persons within him such as Mark, David, Danny, Albert or Matthew. He and the world know him as John, but the others come alive under specific stimulus.

– John may want to join a gym and lose weight. John and Mark decide to join the gym, whereas Mark is the person within the caliphate that has the portfolio to make new plans or make new resolutions. John and Mark may go to the gym for a week before they stop. This is largely because the portfolio of waking up early in the morning is with Danny and the ministry of feeling lazy about new plans is with David. Danny and David are against the plan. This is the absence of unity in a man. All this is happening while we and the man himself only perceives himself to be John.

– Mindfulness is the magic element that can bring about unity in a man. When a man is able to witness all these different responses and stimuli within himself. With mindfulness a man can work on himself and get rid of these inner influences.

* You can only give, what you have

There is no father or mother who does not want to give love to their child or vice versa. There is no mother in law who premeditates to harass her daughter in law or vice versa. No politician claims to do wrong for the country or no friend ever wants to hurt another friend.

If no one wants to hurt another person, then why is there so much hurt and conflict in the world?

The answer is simple, we can only give what we have. Unfortunately, we do not have pure love and happiness to give. We have mixed emotions and that is what we end up giving to the world knowingly or unknowingly, causing conflict and strife. Our fears and insecurities put us in direct conflict with each other. We think of life as a negative game and do not think win-win situations.

Inner work is the only way to change the content of what we can give? Inner change and development opens up a fountain of pure love and true giving When you change from within, only then can win-win relations and situations flourish in life. If there is peace at your center, then there could be prosperity at the circumference of life Mindfulness is thus a Two Way Street – that makes life blissful for an individual and also helps in improving productivity and reducing conflicts with the outer world.

Enlightened beings are saints in their stillness and kings in their movements

– Chuang Tzu

* Poor understanding of Economics and Free Markets

Why is there so much poverty on Earth?

This is a wrong question, while the right question should be what causes prosperity? A wrong question will always lead to a wrong answer. Countries like China, South Korea and Singapore have demonstrated how to achieve prosperity in the recent times and countries like USA and other western nations did that in not too distant past Humanity is losing touch with realities that caused prosperity. Although this point is a subject of “Liberty, economics and governance”, but this point does cause a lot of stress and a man ends up wasting a lot of time discussing wrong ideas about the outer world. If kids at school can be taught the right values of liberty and free markets, in one generation we can have new humanity with a correct outward gaze towards life. And if we can also teach meditation at school to one generation along with it, then we will have humanity that has both the correct Inward Gaze and outer gaze, thus leading to peace within and prosperity in the outside world.

A man can truly master the inner and outside world. Steve Jobs was a meditator and had visited Neem Karoli Baba’s Ashram in India. He excelled on both the inner development and outer achievements.

Fully realized beings are sages in their stillness and kings in their movement – Chuang Tzu

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