10. Honouring Life in all forms
I expand my awareness and responsibility to consider and create the best possible life for everyone and everything from the large to the small. ( source : https://desteni.org/about-us/desteni-principles)
In order for me to honor all life, I must be clear about what life actually is. I remember talking with a guy fews years ago. I was explaining to him that tree was alive. I look at me very confuse and say to me that tree are not really alive lol.
To make it simple, I can simply look at the balance that exist within nature. All system are interdependant and connected together. Even if everything follow a specific set of programs, nature is very balanced compare to the world of the human rules by the mind.
A good starting point is to be aware of everything that exist in the physical and observe how I as individual impact those things. Do I support the physical or do I abuse it.
On a smaller scale, I can look at my own physical body. If I seek energy like a crack addict, it's obvious that my physical body will deteriorate itself. It's well known that stress deteriorate the physical body and accelerate the aging process like crazy. What it's not that well known is where does the stress actually come from. As I start walking my process with Desteni, I realize how little I actually know about the mind and his structure. I realize that I was programmed to abuse life. Everything was automated.
Then I can expand my awareness to all the human being and see how I impact them. I must be honest with myself. It's not easy to admit that my participation in the money system is creating poverty on the other side of the world. It's not easy to acknowledge the suffering that I am creating for other when I chose to seek my own self-interest, but it's necessary, if I want to stop the abuse.
Then I can expand my awareness to the animals and see how much suffering we have created within the animals kingdoms in the name of our self-interest. A great example is that we put animals in zoo where animals can never truly live as their full potential all of it for us to generate a feeling. We have reduce something beautiful to consumerism all of it for our own self interest. I could also speak about the atrocious condition that animals have to go through in the mass meat production industries. If we would raise and slaughter the animals that we are eating, we would probably not wasted as much as we do now. I don't talk about going vegan here, I talk about understanding how I as individual participate in the abuse.
Then I can expand my awareness to the nature ( plants, water, minerals etc). We are all dependant from nature to survive. The tree for example are recycling our CO2 and converting it to oxygen. In the name of profit, we have decimated nature and we keep doing it. Here the abuse is obvious. How many tree are use to print newspapers? All of it to make sure everybody stay brainwash into consumerism. 100% of it could go digital and we could stop cutting tree for that specific purpose, but a good old paper journal in the home is more effective to fulfill his purpose.
All of that bring us to the money system. First I must investigate how I participate in seeking my self interest. On a bigger scale, we must address the money system that lead us to compete with each other and seek our self-interest. What can I do now? I must walk my own individual process and remove all the points of abuse that exist within me. Then I must stand with a group so we can adress the system.
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