I've long felt that the balance of the mind and heart, acting as one, is the essence of spirituality. I do not use this word often because it is so loaded in the mind of others. It gets confused with belief, faith, and religious addictions. I don't see any need for belief. If a phenomenon has little or no evidence for its existence, why carry that thought in your mind at all? Why not free your mind to explore what is real. There is so much that we don't understand about life, so why not just know this to be true and move forward from there? When my mind is full of assumptions and prejudices, it makes any perception of reality less clear.
I appreciate this author's meaning because it acknowledges the relationship between others as being one of heartfelt equality. It's not an imposition from thought or from laws. Every person has a unique blend of talents and some are less capable than others, but there is the understanding that these capacities do not need to divide us. Rather, they should serve as reminders that we need each other. From this understanding, there is nourishment to all parts, like the body which feeds all organs in the ways they need to be fed.
If society was produced from this basis of all individuals valuing each other, society would be a totally different creature than it is today. It is a shame that we don't see how society arises from us, from the way we relate to others. The consequence is that we have created a society in which exploiting others is normal. When the pancreas gets abused and stops working, and the rest of the body's organs must work within this deficiency, a terrible disease (diabetes) consumes the whole body leading to a painful decay. That is our society now. In such a society, every individual must struggle, but we accept this as the normal condition of life. Is it? Or is it just one of those beliefs and assumptions?
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