Life, in its purest form with its challenges, its joys as they used to be as soon as we were intelligent enough to experience them, all enabling us to thrive in order that we realized and cemented our most basic purpose, its attributes to the culture and or the norms of each of us as a people, all have been altered completely so that there must exist not just fear but failure thereof as well. Little did we know that the method by which this was to be was just a simple [or not so simple] conceptualization? The one that was to change the way we view ourselves and our environment forever or at least to this day. This has not just had potential in each of us to loose or erase our true identity completely, the one thing that is nexus between ourselves today and generations before us. I am talking about the very source of our strength, courage and wit not just to counter challenges, negotiate sharp and at times sudden turns but to subsist and bring longevity to our achievement potential as human beings.
We inadvertently have allowed ourselves to conceive a self destructive idea that yes was in actual fact somewhat an imposition as to it, value on our basics as we know them was attached. This idea that with it, the owner had to establish artificial mechanisms that were to appear to us to be for our own survival and so that while we appreciate having them, they cunningly sought to entangled us in the vine of furthered dispossession, that of our mind, our spirit and our physicality. We, in the current generations existing today were all born in to this concept and therefore could not have been able to escape it as our then new environment was already contaminated with it with a challenge that would assist us to measure it against. We know that this concept is anti-humanist as it brought alive and continued to feed immortality to materialism and all that is attached to it, why? To simply influence the finite human desire so that the craftsmanship of individualism is not just realized but completed and that the cycle repeats itself over and again. This because as human beings we turn not just to own desire, we believe that it is part and parcel of our selfness as individuals.
if you believe that you are a self, if you believe in self nature as being real, as being truly existent, then there has to be desire, because in order for a or to have a self you have to define a self. If you believe in the nature of self, you have to have an underlying belief that self ends here and other begins there. You have to have some conceptualization in your mind about what the self is, because the idea of self cannot exist without some definition. Conceptual proliferation develops, and with that, desire. Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo (Buddha faith)
We need to be able to identify first the immediate enemy, then his instruments of destruction and where they are located. I am saying it is because of desire that money and all other materials that are attached to the same money come alive to coexist with us. I am saying, while desire is unavoidable since one would have come to some level of self realization, its existence within us can successfully rival our longing to consistency serve in our respective faiths and /or beliefs or giving gratitude deities. There is no doubt we are complex creatures and that because of our intellect we are said to be in the driving seat of all life forms as we take the struggle of evolution forward in our own lifetime(s). This comes with a defaulted responsibility of being protectors of the same said life forms with which we share our world. By the same measure we are responsible to the well being and thriving of other human beings we are said to be leading in different areas of demanded by nature on the one hand and our response to such demands on the other.
Our success in sharing the world in the fairest manner with all living organisms is if we are successful in sieving accurately the seeds of bad desire from the good ones. The bad one must be gotten rid of without delay because it objectifies everything in order to satisfy and worship the self, and as it also affixes itself upon the realm of individualism. It is the same which cause us not just to place value but to hunger to take ownership of that same which must stand as an entity for the deserved ones or for all. Capitalism is an enemy of humanity. We must be weary of the forces such as attack on our desires as this will separate us or even cause us to stratify as a people.
Mzolozolo.
