I'm flipping through my self-meditation book, reading a few of the koans (questions with no true "logical" response meant to disprove logical reasoning, more or less) and such, and I happen to notice an affirmation on one of the pages.
"Affirmation: I accept the world just as it is."
What the hell?
To accept the world just as it is is to give up on humanity. Our world faces tremendous amounts of poverty and inhumanity. People are dying as I type because they believe in God, because they question tyrannical governments, because they see something better for themselves. So many people are on the breaking point -- their concerns are so much more imminent than my selfish desires, and to accept the world for what is it is is to condone those who have forced a way of life upon them.
What are we doing?
Are we really approving of ignorance? Is that what we aspire to, to accept what we feel cannot be changed?
Granted, some things can't be changed. I cannot, for example, move the moon a little closer to Earth, or telepathically tell a goat that it needs to produce more milk. No can do.
But to consciously give up on change . . . I cann't accept that. I just can't.
What are we doing?
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