The Feel-Good-Society

During the last twenty-something years a dramatic change of values has taken place in the Western Societies. We have become weak societies of immaturity, of coward’s and most of all, of victims. And victims are characterized with not being responsible. Some even think victims have a right for vengeance, they are allowed to harm the one’s, who seemingly harmed them before. The methods therefore are very various. One may just get angry, living out the own narcism on others. Another person my tyrannize the co-workers or the family and friends or start a lawsuit to get a compensation for the pain, that had to be feat. Even getting insane, acquiring a mental disease is a way to get rid of society and leave it up all to the other people. And then there are the various “psyche problems” so many people hide these days to live on their pervert and infantile lifestyle and have a “good explanation” for it. Society is stupid enough to believe theses people and psychologist strongly support the poor “victims”!

The worst thing about an immature society is the inability to face the reality, to face the facts. Politicians don’t communicate brutal truths to the voters, the pay marketing companies for giving them advice to “sell” their politics to the people. Other consultants give advice how to deceive commissions and get around obstacles by swindling. That is what happened with Greece, when the poor country in the southeast corner auf Europe joined the Euro zone. But on the other hand, there are not only the people who deceive, but also the one’s who let themselves be deceived. Goethe once wrote that you never get deceived but you always deceive yourself. That is more than true.

People are far more interesting in hearing what sounds nice to their ears, instead of being told hard truths. But in the background there always stays this inconvenient feeling that somewhere in the future we all will have to pay a high price for not seeing the reality in the moment. That is true for individuals as for whole societies and in the end for the whole mankind and the planet. People have lost their freedom to a seemingly nice present, for many it looks nice to be caught in a golden cage, but even a golden cage stays a cage, an instrument of control of someone else and of imprisonment. Whoever sells freedom for security is neither worth the one nor the other. We have to recognize, that the value of freedom is more important than “having a nice life”. Life is a school for learning no place to enjoy yourself and no purpose on its own.

In the children’s society, we are living in, more and more people act out instead of behaving as natural and spontaneous human beings. For they never have become adult, they never had an adequate guidance, nor an example of such a person, they fight the demons of childhood for the rest of their lifes and project there own inner emptiness and problems onto others. So the idea arises, that there is “evil” in the world, and that must be fought. But evil per se does not exist. What is evil for one person, is good for another person. Good and bad are completely relative. Even a war cannot be considered evil, for there are people who profit from it and in who’s perception it is something good. This is another truth nobody wants to hear, and of course it is not “political correct” (political correctness is also an instrument of deception, to make people be “nice” to each other, also if there is nothing to be nice about. Id est the wish to feel good).

The happiness of human beings is not intended by nature, as Sigmund Freund, the great Austrian psychiatrist, declared. Word nobody wants to hear nowadays and whoever can not argue against an argument, must attack the arguing person. People want to hear, that their life is important, that everybody could be a kind of “kind” or “queen”, every person could be successful and the like. Be we all have our destiny and for most, what we call “success” in the ordinary way, is not intended. We have a complete corrupted idea about happiness and fulfilment. The mistake is already rooted in the depth of the culture we live in, that has come to a lower level than ever before in history. In contrary to what most people believe, we live in very primitive and bad times! Immanuel Kant, the German Philosopher and Professor, once wrote, that complete happiness, complete bliss, would mean that all our wished would be fulfilled in quantity and quality. How can that be? Imagine all the different wishes people have, they would necessarily contradict the wishes of others. So, if god wanted to fulfil everybody’s wished, he himself could not do it. Thinking along this avenue, we never come to realize true happiness. Even if we get what we wish, we experience suffering, for nothing is eternal, everything in the universe finds its end, even ourselves, we are going to die and every day on earth brings us neared to the cold grave.

So, what do we have to realize? We have to realize, that happiness does never come from fulfilling wishing, but to give up wishing at all. We enter the realm of reality, if we live without intentions in our life. Wish nothing, crave for nothing, and you are happy in the same moment! Hard to believe, but the only truth, that can be found concerning happiness and fulfilment.

A typical sign of our times is, that everybody feels like a victim, people behave, as if life owed them something and they are looking for the “bad guy”, who is to blame for their own misery. Whenever something in life goes wrong, someone else must be to blame or must be brought before court. That is not the behaviour of adult people, but adult humans are the rarest species to be found on the planet. Ever exotic animals, threatened to be the last of their kind, are more common in the world.

Especially the western societies are bankrupt, not only in the financial sense but especially concerning morality. Tolerance is based on cowardice, “doing good” is done out of feelings of shame or guilt (by the way feelings of guilt and shame are naughty, we should not teach our children guilt or shame, so that they can live a free live) and the hope, that nobody will harm us if we don’t harm others. My own mother used to say: “The way you shout into the forest is the way the words come back to you!” But she was damned wrong! The world is not a nice and cosy place and it never will be, it is not in the hand of human beings to create a “paradise”, that attempt will only lead to hell. What is necessary for human beings is finding oneself in the ability to attack others and defend yourself and be proud of what you can do, find your own strength apart for society of other people. The only thing that really counts in life is you and only you! Everything else is at the ranks behind you.

To see truth and accept it as well as be able to handle it are adult characteristics. As long as people are not adult they will your “tricks”, “manipulation”, “drugs”, “alcohol”, “distractions” (media, movie, TV, Shopping..) and the like, to go through life to give them the feeling of being part of mankind. What we need is intellectual honesty and integrity to survive in this 21st Century. Non-western societies go different ways. Some try to imitate the senseless consuming approach of the West, others are more concentrating on their own core values. But most of these countries a quit noble in their way to communicate to us, but don’t think they know that the west is bankrupt, and that real values have been lost. Our society is getting digged out from inside and it is only a question of time until everybody sees that there is nothing inside and that our way of living, our nations and societies are as empty as the neurotic every-day-person on this planet.

Wake up and change your reality! Or disappear from earth!

Valentine's Day

Today is Valentine’s Day and I want to use this opportunity to write a few words about love. When you look at the world and listen to what people say and what messages you get bombarded with, you could believe, that love is what is most common in the world. The world has become obsessed with this word. And it seams that everybody knows what it really means. But when it comes to love, the majority of all human beings are not more mature than little children. They have learnt from the blind (normally their parents) und are creating new blind ones (their children) by passing over a false belief from one generation to the next. What do I mean by using such harsh words? Love is a great concept, it is the greatest and most wonderful concept that has ever been brought out of the universe. The real love is what has been taught by great masters of metaphysics like Jesus or Buddha, but ever since then there have been single people who understood und who have practised it to make it visible in the world.

We normally misuse the world love. For example: when we say: “I love to go to the movies” or “I like steak and French Fries” and the like. We have to be more careful by using our language properly, that we don’t soil the holiness of some word. We have to heal the idea of love again. I don’t go into more details what I mean by deconsecrate love, for everybody can make his own judgement by reading the real criteria for love.

So what are they? First of all, love must cover all that is. Love is not something personal, for when you recognize the world as a whole, there is no “You” and no “Me” and it is impossible to say: “I love you”, by not also meaning “I love everything there is”. Real love is never something exclusive, given to a special person; it always must include everybody and everything. The second point to mention is, that real love is unconditional; it does not depend on something or anybody. If you love a person, because he looks good, it is not real love. If you love a person, because he is doing something for you or gives you something, it is not love at all. Love even includes the enemy. Real love is always also love to the people who hurt you, even the ones who would like to kill you. You only owe love to other people, not sympathy. Of course you do not think that a person, who harms you, is someone you have sympathy for. But that does not mean you cannot love him.

But this is not all that is. Love contains four further characteristics. The first one is friendship. The second one is compassion. The third one is Joy. And the fourth one is equanimity. What ever you do, if love is joy for one party but not for the other, it is not love. It is also no real love, when you want to do good things, but you harm another person, because you did not have the rightful understanding. If you give a present to someone for whom the present has no value, because he cannot use it or does not like it, it is not real love. For real love always has to consider both, the heart and the mind. Giving without understanding is not rightful giving, is not rightful understanding. The last one, equanimity, is the one that many people don’t understand. Equanimity is the wisdom of equality. You understand that there is no higher and no lower in the universe, you see that all people and all beings are one. Pride is a sign of not understanding the fundamental truths and one of the many causes of suffering in the world. People who are proud, create a blueprint in their minds, which will let them suffer in the future. So what is pride? Pride is to think you are better or superior to someone else. Pride is also to think you are less or inferior, than someone else (even modern psychology knows that). But pride is also to think you are equal to others. So what is not pride: To see that there are no others.

“I am not better than the others,
I am not worse than the others,
I am not equal to the others,
I am the others!”

If we do not have equanimity in our mind, love is in danger to become a struggle, a struggle over power. One partner tries to “own” the other one, like a piece property, in the worst scenario of course. But more often we see the tendency in relationships and especially in marriages, to limit the freedom of the spouse, to “bind” him or her. That behaviour is not love, it is possessing. We have to see, that if we really love, nobody loses his or her freedom, relationship does not mean to have less freedom than a single person. If it is so, than there is definitely something wrong. And both partners should meditation and contemplate deeply about their real feelings and the mental attachments that are their, that have nothing to do with love, but mimicry themselves are part of love.

If we practise more mindfulness in our lives and especially in our relationships, we can help ourselves and our loved ones to cultivate the fruitful seeds in our mind and not the unfruitful ones. Whenever we see someone getting angry, we should instead of supporting his anger, help him so that the unfruitful seeds, which are about to come up, can disappear fall back into the depths of the mind, where they came from. And we also have to watch ourselves not to cultivate the seed of anger that is within us. It is very ease to be infected by anger of others and getting angry ourselves. Mindfulness is the guardian, which recognizes the danger before it can arise.

A happy Valentine’s Day to everybody!!!

What good times we are living in!

We are really privileged, especially if we have access to the internet and the time to use it wisely. For that is the most important point. We can waste our times away very easily and swiftly, if we do not pay attention to our most precious resource, which is time. But on the other hand, we can train our mind, we can train our brain in a way completely unthinkable for former generations of human beings. If there is a problem in our times concerning that issue, it is not that access to almost any information your need in your life is denied, but how to find the right information in a big heap of what is often a kind of garbage. I think we do not live so much in an era of information but in an era of choice, of making the right selection of what is accessible to us. As much as there may be said about how the media influences the people, even they are blamed to stupidify a whole generation of younger people, and so on. The truth is, influence is what happens automatically, when people communicate with each other. There is nobody to blame for that fact. Every person has to pay attention on his or her own, it is not to the others to do that job for us. Face the fact, if you do not know what is important to you or what is not, you become like wax in the hands of others. And if so, you cannot accuse the world, other people, the media, or even the whole culture for your own lack of awareness.

Recently I was doing some research about different regions all around the globe. Including such remote places such as the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, the inner deserts of Asia, the islands of the South Pacific, southern Italy or the rain forest in Ecuador. Having not visited all this places on my own, I relied on reports of others who have seen them, books and guides and so on. But far apart from the technical data, I could use a lot of pictures of the landscape and especially what makes it more vivid, the use of hundreds of videos downloaded form Youtube.com. It gives you an inspiration and in some way it even touches your emotional system (of course only if you have made a similar experience throughout your life, so that your brain has a starting point to begin). For me, as a writer, this is even more valuable, because it supports me a lot in my daily work of writing. The combination of thinking and feeling with the help oft the world-wide-web is an enormous widening of my rage of action and imagination.

Not only the data material, in the shape of texts, pictures and movies, does a good job, but also the possibilities to connect with people throughout the planet. Sometimes you want to know something only people can know who live at a certain place, and/or at a certain time. And even this information you can get access to through the internet nowadays. Never before in my life, the net has ever been so precious to me. This is one reason, why I believe, we are living in absolutely great times. There are many more reasons of course and I will discuss them later in further posts. But for now, good night and have a nice time!

The need to face the game of power

At the age of 16, I had my first summer job in a major electronics company. It was my first true experience with “the real world”. At school you are in a kind of protected area, as long as you learn, are smart and know how to satisfy the teachers, you have a quite easy life (as long as you are no loner, or strange in some special way). Of course you don’t know that then!

My boss in that summer was a man of great integrity and virtues, he believed in values like honesty, hard work, rationality and common sense. His position in the company was stable and he was respected by most people, but his career had been manoeuvred into a corner. For ten years he was the chief of his department not advancing a single step since then. Other people, who were in the company for much less years, were promoted and found themselves in higher positions.

Under the surface there was the frustration you could feel and that influenced the whole department and the people of my boss. For me there was no reason why my boss was not advancing. Other people who where in higher positions like him where much less intelligent and their working moral was not very high. They cared more for themselves then for the company and many of them did not even try to hide their attitude that the company would exists for their own personal good and not for the owners, the people that financed the firm. I thought about the Peter-principle: Everybody gets promoted as long as he finds himself in a position where he fails.
I started thinking a lot about the situation, about power and the way you get it and what so many people seem to do to avoid being promoted. I was fascinated by the dynamics of power and in all the years since then my fascination grew even bigger.

Power is something that is present all around us but in our political correct times people try to avoid the word power. We do not tolerate obvious craving for power like with active aggressive acts. So even more people smile and pretend to be uninterested in power, use feelings of guilt, make others feel ashamed and make massive use of passive aggression. The situation is not so much different form the royal courts in Europe during past centuries. The more civilized human beings are, the more they are actors. In some way civilization is a fake and history has shown from time to time that even a very civilized nation, under a certain influence, can loose it’s thin layer of cultivation and show the substance that lies beneath.

Back to my job. One thing became very clear to me: I had a wrong idea about how human relationships work, what really counts in life and how the dynamics of movements can be controlled, even if you don`t control them. I came to the conclusion that moral is a human invention, it is nothing natural, nature would never have created such laws that very often irrationally limited the range of human behaviour. If I could look at things how they really are, and make a rational decision, independent of what people think and if they like me or not, I could get anything in life I wanted. In other words, if I could get independent of the crowd I could be in a position like a cowboy who controls the cows until they are brought to the slaughterhouse (as a specualtor in stock markets I know that it is not the crowd that makes the money – see my other blog http://samuraiofthemarket.blogspot.com). As a 16 year old I felt powerful and knew little about how much I still had to learn even if the basic principle was and is still right: “As a samurai (warrior) you have to have the ability to be cruel and unforgiving to do what is right and create the good in effect”. Or as Goethe wrote in his “Faust”: “I am the power that always wants the evil, but always creats what is good”.

After two months my work at the company was over. I made a few friends but no enemies. I learnt a lot (much more about human nature than about the technical abilities that were needed for my job). We have not created the world and its laws but every living being has to find his niche and go with the flow. You cannot resist the natural order – that is only human arrogance. If you want to make the ultimative victory in life, you defeat your enemies with intelligence and not with acts of violence or vengeance. It may sound very seductive to call the battle for power or war barbaric, but that is completely irrational – you are in danger to loose contact with reality. The truth is even more that war (in the widest sense of the word) is the father of all things – as Heracletus calls it – it cleans things and makes the necessary difference between people, companies and nations. It is neither good nor bad, it is just the human appearance of Darwin’s law.

Manifesto

I
In the beginning the true nature of all human beings is an image of the creator.

II
Human beings are created as characteristically good. Evil arises as the result of misuse of free will.

III
The source of evil is the misguided view that bad acting could lead to a harvest of sweet fruits. Evil has not its origin in human beings itself, but what touches humans from outside and gets accepted by humans by their free will.

IV
All men are equal in value. There is no higher and no lower

V
Every men has value and status out of his own existance. This value is inalienable by all circumstances and actions.

VI
No men shall rule any other men. Neither directly in person nor indirectly by
collectives or legal persons

VII
Every person has his own mission which has been given by the creator. The reign of the creator makes human being free and equals their self-actualization.

VIII
Individuality is the duty of every person. Self-actualization is the most noble pursuit of all men, as far as this pursuit is not guided by the selfish ego.

IX
Fear and pessimism are signs of immaturity, they enslave people. Fearlessness, not only courage, in every situation of life, is the rule

X
Thruth only lies in beauty and the good. What is not good or beautiful, is not ture.

XI
A man is male, a women is female. Whoevery acts against this commandment, acts against nature

XII
The sense of life is fulfilling one’s mission, given by creator and the personal relationship with the creator himself. The last meaning of life is being united with the creator and having eternal life. Therefore the creator has built a bridge over the ditch between creator and humans. Salvation comes by accepting this bridge.

XIII
Reality consists of more than what human senses and rational mind can perceive. Science and ratio have no access to crucial areas of reality. Humans cannot perceive such realities but they can make experiences through which they have certainty about these regions, if the grace of the creator is theirs.

XIV
All human needs are good. But the kind of fulfilment of these needs can be unfruitful and of bad nature.

XV
There is hope for the world, for nobody knows the complete plans of the creator and nobody knows who will be saved and who will be expelled. Only in relation to his own situation, men can achieve certainty about this question.

XVI
It is not rightful to search for the creator within creation. It is not rightful to pray or worship creation or parts of it or to search for salvation and healing within creation. Every searching for salvation outside of the creator is wrongful. Creation and Creator are not one and are not united but divided, but the bridge has been built to get salvation (XII).

Welcome

With one day’s delay I now start the English version of my German blog, which’s URL can be found at the sidebar. I want to use this opportunity to say hello to everybody who is interested in what I have to say and in this special case what I am writing. I am very grateful for every constructive feedback, idea and suggestion. So I always can reflex on my own thoughts an work on improving permanently.

The aim of this blog is of great variety. On the one side I want to inform people, share my thoughts with others and inspire them to think independently. On the other side, and that shall by far not be denied, I also wish to provide enjoyment and entertainment to you, my welcomed readers. Many ideas will not go according to what is “mainstream” or concidered ordinary in our society or in any society. I am not wishing to provide soft and charming concepts of what you get in the media, and what your hear on every street corner. The world is full of that, we really don’t run short of such, mostly irrelevant, news. My interest is to open up eyes and also to provoke controversy and even conflict if it is neccessairy. Harmony very often has a too hight price. The emotional and psychological tribute that is paid for cosiness and conformism can be much higher, than one can afford. That does not mean, that I am a nonconformist, not at all. For a noncornformist is as little free as a conformist is. It is no freedom, if you always have to do what is different to the others and the leading opinion. The really free man is independent of both conformism and nonconformism.

That leads me to the central value of this site, wich is freedom. I am everything else than a pessimist and I want to contribute to a more independant thinking and acting of people, as well as to serve the values of self-actualization and self-fulfilment. Individualism and self-actualization are duties of every human being alive, for when we do not find out who we are and what actions give a the biggest sense of being at the right place and that we feel that we are doing exactely what we were born for, we cannot fulfil our ultimate potential and stay far behind of what we could be. There is nothing sader than when a person dies and you have to say: “He could have been a great man, but...”. And by the way we do not contribute to our community in the way it could profit of us also.

The consciousness of the masses nowadays is irritated and misguided by thousands of different things of influence. Particular interests are demanding our whole attention. Every little social group wants its own place in the centre and everybody believes his or her affair is the most relevant one. The media and the politicans want to make us think like them, for it is important for them, not for us, but we are decieved not to see it. But what is most fatal, is that the majority of the news are bad news. The gravitation of negativity wants to pull down everything that is beautiful, true, noble and supreme. Zynism barely hides the truth, wich lies behind it: Fear!

We are all on earth to make it a more constructive and positive place and that can only be done by the individual and its freedom. In the end the individual is everything that counts. Only a person can make experiences of some kind.
What does freedom really mean, concidering all this thoughts? On the one side it is freedom of your gens, of everything that is inhereted within yourself. On the other side it is freedom of the control and influence of society, the state, politicians, economy and any other individual and corporational body, that is not you. In short everything, that is not your true self, your real person. This real person is not your body, your perceptions, your feelings, your thoughts and the contents of your consciousness.

In the language of psychoanalysis one could say: Freedom means being independant of the IT (ES) as well as of the SUPER-EGO (Über-Ich). So that there is no influencing factor than the true self alone. It is what the old Chinese called the “Wu wei”, acting withoug acting, what happens when the Ego has been discovered as a creation of delusion and vanishes like fog on a sunny morning. A person is not living so much, much more he or she is lived, by what could be called the Tao. A human being forms a perfect union with the world, there is no me and no you, no subject and no object. That is one thing I want so show by this blog.

Joyful readings and good thinking.