Do we want to change?

One more year is ending. Time for evaluation for many. We survived one more year for others.

Productivity, profitability, investment, disinvestment, school drop-out, unemployment, desperation… Do we want to change? That’s the question that I always ask myself…

Each time that I walk or pedal, with headphones that create the soundtrack for the movie of my mind – after all she is the one who tells us what is real and was is not-, observing what’s going on, how people relate, the faces, some in a bad mood, others with no interest, others… heartless, I think…

Does the average citizen want change? Does he know…that he needs to change?

If we all knew about the need for change that the Earth screams to us, probably all the citizens would change their habits. But the problem lies in the fact that few know…Few are aware of how their reality fits in a much greater pre-molded reality. And the fact of not changing that reality, but, in the contrary, maintaining that reality – of constant consumption – goes against any story that Nature could tell us about. Because in Nature, therefore, in real life, everything changes. “Life is a series of differentiated transformations” B.K.S lyengar, Hindu yogui master, suggests.

And the need for change is a group scream, by the planet, by the native peoples from all around the world that we displaced… in the name of what??… and a scream by all the mass of people that are unattended by the system, although “unattended” is a very subtle way of saying it…

These people are directly ignored by the system, by the media, by our representatives…They are ignored, knowing that, if they were listened by everyone, the scream of defense would be massive and hard to ignore, this is to say, the need for change would be obvious, which would occur rapidly if we had the necessary levels of awareness needed for it.

Iyengar tells us that “awareness hurts. And that is because it lies in the heart of the paradox of what being a spiritual being means, that lives in a physical body, in a material world. Conscience tells us to do what’s most difficult, because it’s always pushing us towards Unity, towards Totality. Our wishes, our selfishness, our intellectual defects always pull us towards the world of diversity, where we calculate the results of things, we confuse everything and we try to choose what is less bad. The conscious, when it is impeccable, is the voice of our soul, whispering in our ear. ”

And we are not being able to accomplish it. We still aren’t elevating those levels of environmental awareness in such a way that they can trigger all the social processes that should occur to change the economy in representation of the health of the ecosystems of our planet. So, the question is, why don’t we elevate those levels? What is stopping us? What are we distracted with? What is blinding us?

In this case, the same system blinds us… as it alienates us from our lives, takes away our objectives from us, and assigns us a simple repetitive chore that leads us to nowhere and that doesn’t satisfy us at all. We lose time, our time, and a whole life.

Fear to what’s different, fear to change, fear to failure… we already see it… it’s the worst thing, because it leaves us stuck inside our well known comfort zone… We do nothing… and the image that we invent of ourselves takes over our head, shortens our dreams, sees our long term wishes as a waste of time and resigns itself with short term pleasures. Thus, destroying the creativity that one may have within their own destiny, to shape their own happiness for the future, starting today.

In the words of Iyengar:

“The shape of the self or ego defines itself as the whole of the experiences that we have accumulated in the past: my childhood, my university degree, my bank account. The shape of the self, the ego, is the partial addition of everything that happened until this moment.

She’s in love with the past. Why? What is the ego most afraid of? Its own death. Where’s that? In the future. So, it is clear that the ego is delighted with the endless variations of the past. It finds itself comfortable changing the place of old furniture in the same and old room, lying backwards and saying: <<Isn’t it true that it looks different? >> Yes? Yes. Is it different? No. What the ego doesn’t want is to throw the furniture away and get out of the room.

Outside is unknown. The unknown resurrects its fears and terrors about its own impermanence, the fear that one day its impersonation of the true self, of the unknown soul, will be unmasked. In that moment its existence as it was known until then, will end. ”

This entire magnanimous scream, is ignored by the system, or at least it pretends to ignore it… but it is no longer ignored by us, keen on a new way of living.

For example (only one possible evaluation of this 2013, between thousands of outrageous cases), this year, in Ecuador, the oil exploitation in the Natural Reserve Yasuní was approved, immersed in one of the most bio diverse jungles in the world, declared as a World Biosphere Reserve by the UNESCO. It seems unreal, that so many ecologically representative places have been protected, only to later access their resources.

(((Yasuni Lives)))

Then… do we want to change…?

If the technology for having cars powered by AIR already exists as well as other cars powered by WATER, why aren’t we using them all over the world instead of keeping a technology which is over 150 years old as the internal combustion engine is? Is it really necessary for us to mortgage our genetic resources in exchange of a lost economic cause?

For this New Year, I only wish for human and planetary Awareness, with its consequent activation of every human being in representation of the species and our mother Earth, already tired of asking us for help.

Until next week,

Brian Longstaff.-

Bibliography

B. K. S. Iyengar. “Light on life”. Editorial Kairós. 2005.

Pictures extracted from Google.

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