Convincing Others

A big hang-up for students is the desire to help others, to explain to others what one realized. One can spend one’s life doing this while neglecting one’s advancement. One should realize that as a living entity, one has just enough energy to convince oneself of what is real. In addition it is a task to even know what is real because from day one, one was equipped with senses which misinterpret and tell one that the wrong things are right.

Like for instance when I was in a child body, I felt that thunder was created by God who was an old man in the sky beyond the clouds rolling a roller coaster over a bumpy gravel road. As children we would sometimes run and hide under a bed for fear that one of boulders would drop from the sky and crush our heads. And yes, we did feel that the earth was flat and that the sun and moon were rotating around us as the center of their activities. We even felt that our mother and father were centered on us and were primarily concerned about us, even though in fact we grew up with another relative who was the mother of our errand and very irresponsible father.

We had no idea that some adults were copulating the night away, enjoying themselves to the fullest. Our view was that they were working or cooking food for our benefit and that this was the objective of our lives.

Yes and we did think that fruits were on trees for our pleasure of eating. We did feel that our bodies were for enjoying and that we were those bodies to the fullest.

In our conceit, eating sweet or savory foods, giggling over trivial things, secreting thinking in our minds, were the ultimate pleasures. We had no idea about the genital enjoyment which our parents were preoccupied with.

Eventually when we were force to go to school, we accepted that as our inevitable fate. At the time where we grew up if you made a mistake at school you were liable to be canned. That forced us to be responsible for listening to teacher and learning, where instead of laughing and playing while the teacher instructed, we had to make ourselves serious and submissive. Once we learned something, the alphabet or the way numbers were sequenced, we began to get a chip on our shoulders and felt pity for those students who were in grades below us and who we could show a number or letter which was forced into our minds by teachers.

This is where this idea of helping others really kicked in. Is it a valid idea?

Should we really be teaching? Does nature agree that we should influence others?

How does one know if one is really to explain something beneficial to someone?

Is nature’s permission required for one to influence someone even with advice which can be proved to be the right way?

Is it possible to see someone going in the wrong direction, and decide that allowing that person to continue on the wrong track is the correct action to take?