Avoiding Spiritual Death
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Pilgrim’s Walking Stick | May 17, 2024 | Written By NEB Naba Lamoussa Morodenibig
There is a Gourmantche proverb that says that peace and desperation are the inhabitants of two antagonsitic lands. Every time we think we have found peace in one area, fear and in the recognition that the state of destruction of this world is the desperation find themselves in what we consider to be an antagonistic or opposed area.
We say in my village new values that "It is when there is peace at home that the bush becomes scary." We also say that it is when we don't want to confront problems within ourselves that we want to talk about the evils around us.
This is one of the first games of hypocrisy to which we easily fall victim. There are a lot of facts, attitudes, thoughts, etc. that we can see within ourselves and recognize that they do not honor us. We think that by talking about the evil we see in our neighbors, we will succeed in getting them to believe that the quality of our lives is acceptable.
Nowadays, our attention is directed towards the world we want to transform. Every one of us appears to have their plan to liberate humanity, the world, the oppressed, Blacks, Arabs, Jews, etc. Each one of us believes that they have the magic potion that could free us from the evils of this world. And, very conveniently, we forget to see that all these evils are caused by people just like us, all of them with their plan to "save the world"! The hypocrisy game is present everywhere. We know very well that by trying to change or help the world, we will not change anything and will not help anybody. We know that we are born and educated in our society, and our society made sure that our ideas of good and evil are nothing but what it has taught us. We are all victims of the mass movement triggered by the political leaders. Our educational institutions made sure that even the most terrible of our rebellions, the deepest of our revolutions, will stay contained and directed towards the aspirations of the politicians that colonized us.
There is no world to change! Everything is there to distract us from our reality. For the politician and the religious clergies, the human being is nothing but a sheep that is so distracted by its dreams and ambition that it does not see the hoof at the end of its legs and the rope on its neck.
It is the human being that is the problem! It is us that brings destruction! It is not even our neighbor, because our neighbor believes he is doing the destruction in our names! Spiritual honesty resides in the recognition that the state of destruction of this world is the result towards ourselves as a passive or active accomplice. So it is our lives that we can change. And our change will be made of new values that we adopt (the seventy-seven commandments). If we change our life, instead of stagnating in our desires to change the world, we would effectively transform a portion of this world: ourselves.
If we are so interested in the exterior, maybe it is because our interior is so scary! The greatness of a civilization is not measured by the height of the skyscrapers, pyramids and machines, but the greatness of the souls of individuals. Truly it is when there is peace in the house that the bush is scary; if the house becomes dangerous, the human being will run towards the bush in search of peace! But for how long will we keep on running from the house? The bush will always stay the bush, but the house needs to be freed from the demons and the forces of evil if we want to be able to say one day that we exist on this planet.
This is the first stone that marks the path of the survival of the soul. This is the first trap that is set by our ego and while we are complaining about the evils of this world, we avoid to see that we are the actors of death.
To avoid spiritual death will consist of first facing this reality. "If reality troubles me, it is because I lie," says a Gourmantche proverb. Please educate yourself, for the survival of humanity.
