We grow up hearing about famous people who changed the world, about how it is important to make difference in people’s lives, to heal the world, to improve the world… In school, we are taught about writing, reading, math, geography… At home, we learn how to sit, run, use the toilet, eat, study, choose a profession, conform… Eventually, we turn into great experts in a certain field, achieve tangible results and create a spacecraft that takes us to the moon. We are almost obsessed about improving things and processes, getting better, faster and more sophisticated. We want to help other people by showing a way we think is better, by trying to change them. It seems that the more we try to improve the world, the worse it gets. So why is our world getting more unbalanced and unjust? Maybe because the world cannot be improved. It is sacred. To realize that, we may observe nature and its fundamental laws. There is nothing to be improved or changed. So what are we doing here? We are part of nature. We may start from within and try to go back to our own nature. Loving kindness, justice, beauty, compassion, courage are human’s virtues. I believe that the best think we can do for people we love is to evolve as a human being. There is nothing outside to be changed or improved. Transformation happens from the inside out. I wish I would have dedicated most part of time and energy at school, at work to this practice. It is never too late.
“Do you want to improve the world? I don’t think it can be done.
The world is sacred. It can’t be improved. If you try to change it, you’ll ruin it. If you try to hold on it, you will lose it.
So sometimes things are ahead and sometimes they are behind; Sometimes breathing is hard, sometimes it comes easily; Sometimes there is strength, and sometimes weakness; Sometimes one is up and sometimes down.
Therefore the wise avoid extremes, excesses and complacency.” Lao Tsu, Tao Te Ching
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