The ideal world
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survival can be difficult in an unfriendly environment, these are my thoughts on the ideal world
Labels: Adjustments, almost exactly, being wrong, each day, few adjustments, forced to change, hours, minutes, only change, prosperity, rarely, to deny
Is there such a thing as an ideal world? I have been doing a lot of research while in Cagayan de Oro City and things are not so straightforward now as they did before. I have been greatly involved in the microorganism project which is the linchpin of natural farming. Planting lakatan bananas in Cagayan de Oro City has involved me in this activity and I am beginning to suspect that a lot of things are not as they appear to be.
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The conflict has just started. Like clockwork, it began innocuously, surreptitiously, like a thief in the night it came seeking to plunder my precious peace of mind. Luckily, I had an inkling that this would begin shortly and it did. My little experiment is following familiar patterns. I should be careful not to lose my monitor, my witnessing entity that keeps me above the fray of my own mind as my thoughts battle amongst themselves. There is a way that thoughts are provoked and this is inter-connected with everything. Nothing exists outside this universe of discourse and I should realize this. Everything in the universe is connected and my own thoughts are part of the universe. My thoughts determine my feelings and emotions and they can be sparked or started by something from outside of me. This has just happened and I have just witnessed this interconnectivity.
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How can I think of the ideal world at this time? There seems to be no ideal world as far the real world is concerned. It seems to me that the only ideal world there is can be found only in the minds of people like me who have not found anything ideal about the real world. Maybe I need to change the way I think about the world and see the good things and not just the bad. Maybe then I will find something that remotely resembles an ideal world, the one that I have in my mind. The mind is very idealistic. It seeks perfection even when it is impossible to produce in a world which is constantly changing. Can such a world exist in the flux that we call existence?
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Why is there a difference between the real and the ideal? Could it be because the mind somehow filters out those parts which feel incongruous with the rest of the thought? Is there an innate mechanism to seek symmetry in all things and to reject those that seem unordered? The thoughts of people cause them to come in conflict with others. Take the case of politics, Democrats with their liberal minds and Republicans with their conservative minds. Each one believes that it has the right philosophy to run the American government.
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I cannot find Utopia on any map. It doesn't seem to exist anywhere at all in this planet except maybe in the minds of countless people who wish for something better than their sorry lot. There is a lot of strife everywhere and even in sleep one cannot find refuge from the struggles of daily life. Dreams of conflict invade our slumber and keep us from ever finding that peace we so fervently long for. The ideal world is a funny place. There is not one world but many. A guy who has lost a few of his marbles once declared America to be heaven on earth and when pressed for a reason for this pronouncement he said, "There is free love in America".
Labels: Cagayan de Oro City, Ching's World, dreaming, griping, ideal world, utopia, whining
The desire to do something to alleviate suffering fueled the heart of the Buddha and he left the good, pampered life of his father's palace for the life of the one who sought answers to human suffering. I do not know if there is ever any way that the ideal world can be built. We certainly have the intelligence to build tall buildings, huge ocean-going vessels, super-fast computers and other feats that defy the imagination.
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