WORLD ETHIC OF INNER / SPIRITUAL DIRECTION

Thoughts and struggle for survival - When work is "slavery" by the need for survival

(There are many prejudices around this issue and more obvious)

If we have resolved the problems of survival for a while, this is not the ultimate purpose of life. Life and activities do not stop, nor the problems. Life continues and a multitude of thoughts come to mobilize us so that to satisfy all our desires, to set new goals, to think about how to achieve our goals and how to maintain the favorable circumstances. No one thinks that his survival is guaranteed and that after this fact life makes no sense. On the contrary, everyone thinks that in favorable conditions they can do what they want, imagine and plan, and to face the potential dangers. The assured survival offers time to we draw more meaning in life, by setting goals within the world and by the activity to achieve these goals. There is no end to action, thought and desire as long as life lasts. The beginning and the end are selected in our paranoid spirit. Information, knowledge and thoughts create desires, goals, planning and show us some actions that we will probably be able to accomplish, achieve our goals and satisfy our desires.

Sometimes they urge us to actions (eg for fishing or a travel) with the assessment that we will like it, as they thank them. We try to convince them that we do not want such activities and they are unable to believe it. But they do not think that we do not want to spend our time pleasantly in any way, but with our own thoughts and choices. Our desires, plans, goals and actions communicate with each other and overall with the quality of the spirit, which he thinks, knows, calculates, appreciates and decides. That is why, beyond luck and the right decisions, it is not everyone willing to make money with the same efforts and sacrifices. It is not everyone willing to spend so much time, to tired to the same degree, risk the same likelihood, using the same means, work on the same terms, change their lifestyle, tolerate the same problems and enjoy the same successes. Everyone will otherwise take advantage of a lot of money, depending on how perceives the world, what is his view of the meaning of life, what his needs, priorities and estimates, his desires, his knowledge, and what effort is enjoys. If some active and ambitious people do not want other people to think creatively and be interested in their spiritual cultivation, then among these immoral people are those who are looking for obedient men and labor hands for their jobs. Those who think that the designation of "lazy" stigmatizes us badly, they probably have not realized the many dangers hidden in the over-worked people (excessive working people) or are looking for eager accomplices in their plans and obedient people.

"Work is not a shame" is usually said to encourage someone to choose their job without hesitation. We agree, but let's not forget how many hours we offer daily from our limited lives, what a mentality is shaped by working conditions and what thoughts we have to do to participate and to perform in our work. Let us not forget that many other opportunities are missing from our lives and how many more we would like to do everyday if we had the financial opportunity... for which we perhaps work without gaining such an advantage. Remember, when work is "slavery" by the need for survival, then a slow death can be made for thinking and spirit and often harm biologically and irreparably our health. Exchange in much money can be a strong argument and we would discuss it. But if, despite self-sacrifice, we remain unable to help our family and eventually we can never break the bonds of our slavery (with a minimal reward such as the exploiters have always given the slaves), then we are miserable! Not only survival is not secured, but the comic and together tragic is that from the excessive effort of people to survive, in the end people get sick, killed, create their enemies even in their own home, their lives become painful, they economically destroyed and of course the beauty of life disappears! Imagine someone who offers all his time, thinking and body as a robot for the cost of survival, as a self-offered worker for many years (really slave, with or without law) and in the end loses his child because of drugs. Or people are financially pressed by doctors and lawyers and then they need sedative drugs to prevent from psychological collapsing. And people after such a sacrifice of their life, without creative thinking or with their confidence in the future and with the unjust confidence in the scammers, some appear as militants on the news channels and they shout for their right or they cry for their misfortune and are bothered when we do not offer aid to them! When we invest in the goddess "luck" and rely on people with a speculative concept of the world and some persons occasionally favored, then we have to think that finally we will get involved and lose and not that we will win.

* A flexible translation from the book (in Gr) titled "The Global Ethic of Inner Orientation" and the subtitle "Human Fantasies and Lies Without Self-Know­ledge"