Arinaya : Harmonist

Re: 108

Arinaya said Jan 2, 8:04 PM:
 

Not sure what this gives.

On its own, nothing, obviously. A meaningless intellectual exercise, perhaps. It does seem rather childish.

At its core it is a kind of meta-theory or meta-view of existence and life as a whole. Diversity and unity resolved in mutual accord without abrogating one to the other.

Normally we govern ourselves both individually and collectively according to a fragmented consciousness, narrowly confined to a more or less limited scope of time and circumstance.

But humanity is growing into its cosmic self and will one day achieve a self-government of enlightened universal self-interest; then these kinds of views might be of more practical interest. For now it is a more or less pointless exercise.

Think of it though, if each person on the planet – or even a small powerful minority – chose to balance their personal needs with their community's needs and the needs of the earth as a whole, if this was our individual and collective concept and feeling of self-interest, what would the result be?

Give at a few hundred years, and we'll talk about it again…