Licking the Razor's Edge (2015)

*So don’t get angry at your ego for tempting you to shy away from Love … Have
compassion for its cowardice instead.
*Don’t get angry at your parents or religious leaders for filling your head with the myths
of “morality” (e.g. that a “good citizen” tows the line & “acts normal”) … Have
compassion for their piousness instead.
*Don’t get angry at your teachers & professors for preaching to you about “facts” &
“truth” (e.g. that you are “only human”, forever bound to a limited understanding of
“reality”) … Have compassion for their own ignorance instead.
*Don’t get angry at politicians for convincing you that you do not have any real Power to
change the world … Have compassion for their deviousness instead.
Have compassion for these folks & forces …
… and then get out there and Be Kind anyway!
TIP #02: AVOID PASSIVE “POSITIVITY” …
It is absolutely crucial to realize, contrary to popular opinion, that the most effective
remedy to resignation is not “positive thinking”. Indeed, it has become en vogue to
follow “spiritual leaders” who are trying to convince us to “manifest wealth” via positive
intentions, “co-create reality” via positive thoughts, &/or “be here now” via positive
meditations. These “abundance gurus” will tell you that happiness is yours for the making
– that there are enough material riches for everyone to have more than enough – that we
all deserve to have everything we desire – that inner stillness will come to those who
simply sit Still.
I realize that these promises are incredibly tempting. I also realize that the
aforementioned methods can indeed bring short-term “success”. And yet, at least in
relation to the attainment of true Peace & lasting Joy, they are all destined to fail.
They fail not because of their delusional nature — which encourages us to ignore the
despair we feel & the injustice we witness, nor do they fail due to their patent
ineffectiveness — breeding a sense of apathy that intensifies the very fear that spawned
our hopelessness in the first place.
No, the major issue I take with all such “positivity preachers” is their innate call to
increased selfishness – an emotional greed that is the primary root of all suffering.
Indeed, like the “trickle-down economics” that encourages those who “have” to sit back
and watch those who “have not” futilely construct bridges to prosperity using tinsel
beams & table scraps, mere “positive thinking” encourages us to become even more
resigned than before – to abandon our aspirations of transcending animalian cruelty &
inequity in favor of simply “being happy with what we’ve got”, while encouraging others
to capitulate to the same emotional sloth.
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