Battleground
There is dear reader, a silent war going on around us skirmishes taking place, battles being fought, and more often lost that won.
The largest problem is that most combatants are completely oblivious to the fact this war is taking place. In happy ignorance they continue, while they continue to give precious ground. This war of course I refer to starts initially with the mind, and very thoughts, but its ultimate goal, through storming the capital city of our heart is to reach the seat of power, our soul.
We are so bombarded by ways to think, opinions to hold, actions to either take or disapprove of that we have become massively oblivious to the effect that this is having upon our life.
The major weapon of course, is television. Its most blunt yet effective tool, being that of advertising. Moving swiftly behind for a follow up punch is the news. With these two warriors we're told what to purchase, and what to be sad, happy, annoyed, angry, or downright indifferent about. Yet this is not by any means the total arsenal, every program we watch comes with a hidden agenda attached to it. Every paper we read, or book that we open.
What then is the solution to this problem, dear reader. Do we in some splendid isolation, aim to sit in some distant monastery and have the world would just ignore us until we shuffle off this mortal coil?.
Far from it, you see, we have the greatest tool available to us. To combat all of these weapons it's called "free will". And through this free will we have a choice, this choice allows us to accept and believe without filtering, all that is told to us, and acting upon that. Or we can become discerning, using the choice of our free will to apply wisdom to the situations we see and hear. So that far from being a lost cause, we can honestly say that this battleground is being won.
My question, dear reader is this, are you even aware you're in a battle?
I will with this post be taking a week's break from the blog.
The largest problem is that most combatants are completely oblivious to the fact this war is taking place. In happy ignorance they continue, while they continue to give precious ground. This war of course I refer to starts initially with the mind, and very thoughts, but its ultimate goal, through storming the capital city of our heart is to reach the seat of power, our soul.
We are so bombarded by ways to think, opinions to hold, actions to either take or disapprove of that we have become massively oblivious to the effect that this is having upon our life.
The major weapon of course, is television. Its most blunt yet effective tool, being that of advertising. Moving swiftly behind for a follow up punch is the news. With these two warriors we're told what to purchase, and what to be sad, happy, annoyed, angry, or downright indifferent about. Yet this is not by any means the total arsenal, every program we watch comes with a hidden agenda attached to it. Every paper we read, or book that we open.
What then is the solution to this problem, dear reader. Do we in some splendid isolation, aim to sit in some distant monastery and have the world would just ignore us until we shuffle off this mortal coil?.
Far from it, you see, we have the greatest tool available to us. To combat all of these weapons it's called "free will". And through this free will we have a choice, this choice allows us to accept and believe without filtering, all that is told to us, and acting upon that. Or we can become discerning, using the choice of our free will to apply wisdom to the situations we see and hear. So that far from being a lost cause, we can honestly say that this battleground is being won.
My question, dear reader is this, are you even aware you're in a battle?
I will with this post be taking a week's break from the blog.
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