What is most important?

 Many people have different ideas about what they consider to be most important. Some may be drawn to power, some to money and some to peace and happiness.

I suggest that any craving for money or power, although encouraged by capitalism is in fact based in insecurity. Perhaps the root of the desire for money and power stems from the very human existential fear of death. Accruing money and power may act as a distraction, but will do nothing to alter the fact that we die.

However, whether there is an “us” that dies is dependent on what perspective we take. From the relative perspective, “I” as thing in a world populated by other things will at some point cease to be that thing.

However, from the absolute perspective there is no death. There cannot be. The realisation that all boundaries are mental constructs, allows us to experience ourselves as unity.

As unity there is no death. Perhaps there is movement, process, currents of change. From this perspective death is simply a movement of form and energy. So, the experience of being unity, and the understanding that there is no death, allows for the letting go of fear.

In the letting go of this fear the compulsion to feel safer by the acquisition of wealth and power subsides. What replaces it is a general pervading sense of peace and happiness.

I wished we lived in a world where the most important things were love, compassion, and happiness. But we share the world with others where its seems the most important thing is to “be right.” Perhaps beliefs are just stagnant thoughts and the need to be right its fear based, again, about trying to feel secure in a volatile and ever-changing world.

Humans living in a fear-based reality, all needing to be right, go to war and kill each other so they do not have to feel the fear of not knowing. Why not turn into the fear? Embrace the questions “who am I?” and “what is this?” rejoice in the not knowing. Discover unity beyond belief and find peace.

Is this most important?