We all know that something divine and complete does exist. Some call it 'God', some 'Allah', some 'Dao', and some call it 'The Law of Nature'. Yes, there is something out there monitoring everything and orchestrating the mechanism of the whole thing, which we term 'existence'.
What we have is our 'ego', our friend since birth. For that friend of ours is so truly dear to us, so passionate about things are personal, so true to our needs, and so influential on us, winning all our trust to a point that most of the time, when it urges us to do things in life, we decidedly and eagerly will obey, because along the way, we have become 'one' with our ego and we won't find any point for us to stop and make a check what that really is. Ego our friend. It urges us and we do, and we gained things we desired.
So, this is how it began. And the rest were to include our tragic and traumatic events. For one striking nature of ego is 'Me, Me, Me', for everybody, once we blindly obey our ego’s urges. It will take us all into a system of 'Me’s', and at points those 'Me’s' will collide with each other, resulting in 'wars' of all kinds and of all scales under all the names -from family breakups to religious wars to world wars.
Everything is energy (Einstein). And energies are energies. There is no good energy or no bad ones .The point is just 'how we use it'. There is fire. That is heat energy. Whether we use it for good purposes or the bad ones, is up to us. That is the basic rule of the existence. Energies are given. Our ego is one of them.
It is practical and obvious that when we obey our ego up to some limits like thinking of oneself, ‘I must be healthy, I must be highly educated, I must be wealthy and have a nice family', they will be just desirable urges and will be good for everybody involved in the building up process and also, for those around us. When our ego urges us to being unhealthy, uneducated and a loner, you will be not desirable to anybody, or you yourself, above all else.
So those kind of egotistic desires are good. But when your ego further urges you to do things like. 'Ah yes, I have achieved this status, I didn't gain anything for nothing .I must keep it all to myself and my family. All my skills are for making money and wealth, on and on. I won't share it with anybody outside of my family or I won't make any contributions to those ‘have-not outsiders’, never! Then you are starting some wars of some kind. Maybe wars even between your family members or between you and your friends.
War of any kind has in the DNA an element that is contradictory to the way the ‘mechanism’ of the God's whole plan is running. So, the checking balance here must be seeing life from some other angles rather than the usual ones, when we face some kind of conflict in life.
Basically, as we are elements in God's domain and in the ‘mechanism’, then shouldn't we be aware of, and realize that and behave accordingly? Shouldn't we accept the fact and try to understand more on how to be more in line with the functioning of the mechanism? For most of us, it seems we have been forgetting the fact that we are in 'a domain', and we have been in the delusion that we can go on our own, as we like, as our ego drives us all along.
According to my personal experience, realizing and accepting that fact and getting in the mood of serving 'God', can, at the personal level, arrange things in the manner they are meant to be. And that can release much of my pains and traumas about life to which my ego has been firmly clinging onto.
Then what? Suppose that you will be just trying to serve 'Him' as you can. An element in the domain, functioning as it is meant to be. Then, no 'you' there. And then, no self-centered life events and no more over-attachments, just more and more ‘understandings’. Just more and more ‘forgivings’ and less worries, but more ‘enjoyments’.
Yes, serving God can make you more human, a human who is more truly living and enjoying.
Phoe Wa
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