Society Enlightened

SOCIETY ENLIGHTENED In search of a higher consciousness

WALTER L.

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SOCIETY ENLIGHTENED In search of a higher consciousness

WALTER L.

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Copyright © 2009 by Walter L. Searching for Wisdom Publications www.searchingforwisdom.org All rights reserved ISBN 978-0-557-12354-4

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DEDICATED To the Force of Evolution May she guide me and develop me on my way towards eternity

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CONTENTS PRAYER

A morning meditation on the meaning of auspiciousness

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SENSE OF PURPOSE

Imagine the world as a large family

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SOCIETY ENLIGHTENED

A meditation on the qualities of an enlightened society

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CHANCE AND CHAOS

Chance allows for the most unlikely events to happen. Seeming Chaos brings about most higher orders in nature. Both are necessary for an evolution towards higher consciousness

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THE ROAD TO PEACE

Stages of peace and evolution

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A LIGHT IN THE NIGHT

About hope in the darkest of times

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THE WOLF

When power and humility combine

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THE SHADOW

Through darkness and through light the eternal never leaves

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THE CRIME

Forgiveness as way to destroy evil and heal suffering

Page 21 FEAR

When the mind becomes silent, fear loses all its power

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MIRACLE OF LIFE

Inspired by seeing the newborn baby of a dear sister

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RESPECT FOR THE KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE OF MY TEACHERS

A meditation on how the love for my teachers manifests itself as respect for their knowledge and experience

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THE DREAM LIVES ON

In memory of Ted Kennedy A dreamer who fought to make his dreams reality

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LOVE AND HATE

How hate is really just perverted love Some things are simply not worth it

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THE COMMUNICATION CHANNEL OF LOVE

About an art of communication that leads to understanding

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RELIGION VERSUS THE GREAT SPIRIT

Religions are human concepts The great spirit is beyond them and yet so close

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A LOVE FOR LIFE

For the wedding of a dear friend

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INNER SYSTEM OF MORALITY

The inner system of morality was given to us by evolution but it needs to be trained by reward, guidance by example, and little nudges of punishment

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GRATEFULNESS

A feeling to wake up with every morning

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PRAYER A morning meditation on the meaning of auspiciousness

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May my thoughts be pure My attention steady May I see the need of others May I see the need for growth of me May my actions be in proper time Beneficial for humanity Pleasing to the Divine

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SENSE OF PURPOSE Imagine the world as a large family

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Sometimes I imagine a novel world for humanity I imagine a world where we all are guided by a sense of purpose I imagine humanity as part of a common being A being where each and every cell lives with freedom and with love for others A being where each and every cell is looking out for the wellbeing of the whole I imagine a world in which we live as a universal family Mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, husband, wife, aunts and uncles all acting with a common purpose as well as with a purpose of their own My imagined world is not a world at perfect peace My sense of purpose might not always harmonize with yours They could be driving us to a road of competition Even confrontation ...

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My imagined world, though, is a world of respect for others It is a world where the elders teach the younger ones It is a world where love acts as a guiding principle The young do not do everything that they are told They just listen and develop a sense of purpose of their own A purpose is hiding in all of us A purpose for you – A purpose for me Let’s use love as a light to find it Let’s look out for it Within

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SOCIETY ENLIGHTENED A meditation on the qualities of an enlightened society

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Love Understanding Knowledge Compassion Subtlety Morality Guiding Evolving Gratefulness

We become a mother, when we teach We become a child, when we listen A father, when we sit back and watch with pride Eternally ourselves

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CHANCE AND CHAOS Chance allows for the most unlikely events to happen. Seeming chaos brings about most higher orders in nature. Both are necessary for an evolution towards a higher consciousness

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Some people think that chance and chaos are the enemies of structure and of order They are not! Chance and chaos are the forces that bring about transitions They are the agents of new structures and of higher orders Some people think that chance and chaos are working against the laws of nature How wrong they are! Chance and chaos are the basics of the law The law of constant evolution The law of constant change Until the final stage of peace is reached when, in billions of years, the universe, like a used up body, dissolves into ashes The consciousness though will move on to new beginnings How, is beyond my scope to say Let’s enjoy it while it lasts

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THE ROAD TO PEACE Stages of peace and evolution

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A step in evolution nearly always starts with chaos Evolution is a force not easily contained Peace is the desired stage to which the force should lead In between, though, there is a lot of sorting out Challenges, temptations, mistakes, and the ability to change all work together towards a higher state Love, compassion, knowledge, understanding are some of the helpers towards a state of peace Hate, aggression, frustration, desperation are some of the helpers for the sorting out Evolution does not only happen over generations Evolution happens inside of me and you May the force of evolution guide us as the world is moving towards a stage of newfound peace

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A LIGHT IN THE NIGHT About hope in the darkest of times

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The sun has hidden beyond the horizon Darkness envelops man and nature The stars give light from far Twinkling with joy but not enough to see the path in front of me The sun, though, has not left completely While warming man and nature on the other side the moon gives witness to its presence Reflecting light enough to see the path in front of me Reminds me of the spirit inside Reflecting the eternal in the darkest times With light enough to see the path for growth Until the sun dissolves the darkness yet again and man and nature can revel in its glow

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THE WOLF When power and humility combine

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A loner who enjoys the pack Playful and gentle with his peers and young Vicious, determined and persistent when pursuing his prey Longing for the eternal in the moon reflecting the sun His spirit is strong reflecting eternity in itself You will never break him with force But he will cuddle to the master’s feet when conquered with love

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THE SHADOW Through darkness and through light the eternal never leaves

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A new day is born as the sun touches the horizon It’s a beautiful springtime morning Starting full of innocence Full of hope and full of desires No clouds in sight As the sun moves up Suddenly, without a warning a formation of clouds moves in Brought on by a burst of wind The wind gets stronger The clouds start covering the sun Within moments, the sunny day turns darker The wind brings anxiety as it turns into a storm The clouds are now covering the sky The sky turns even darker, as, unseen to the eye, the shadow of the moon violates the sphere of the sun Night falls in, in the middle of the day There is no rain but the clouds are covering the doings of the shadow ...

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The birds and other animals are anxious and confused The hopes and desires of the morning seem completely shuttered Though The shadow cannot violate the sun for long The sun just keeps moving along its usual path sending out its rays consistently As slowly a little light starts to brighten up the sky Even the clouds As if realizing the futility of covering the sun are dispersing quickly And the storm calms down as swiftly as it came Giving way to the gentle flow of light As the day moves on and the afternoon arrives nearly all the clouds have disappeared Hope and desires are alive again The sun, though briefly covered, never left Could be smiling, could be saying: “I am always here for you”

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THE CRIME Forgiveness as way to destroy evil and heal suffering

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How can we forgive a crime so heinous that it might affect our lives for generations? So atrocious that it might never leave our minds at peace? Maybe if we realize that the purpose of it was that it should haunt us Maybe if we realize that the evil that caused it is working now through us The same way it worked through the ones who have committed it The evil is not interested in a person or a crime It is just interested in the effect it has It only wants to destroy, to disrupt, and to maximize the length of suffering By forgiving we destroy the evil By healing we overcome the suffering By slowly opening our heart for new experiences We are creating new memories that override the past New emotions are finding ways to fill the void ... 22

Love creates a creek, then a river, and then a stream Washing away the pain and filling an ocean of compassion We are strong beyond measure when we defeat the evil by forgiving the ones who committed it And by forgiving ourselves

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FEAR When the mind becomes silent, fear loses all its power

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Where is my fear originating if not inside of me? How can it be that my fear is dominating me? What does it want to tell me? Is it justified? I want to conquer my fear and replace it with wisdom I want to silence the anger and replace it with love I want to know the danger but be able to dissolve it with compassion My mind is playing tricks with me But so is my heart My emotions are getting in the way of me being myself But so is my brain My memories spell insecurity And my plans are too ambitious But ...

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When I go to the silent lotus wisdom, love and compassion start to flow penetrating my heart, making sense of memories When I go to the silent lotus my fears seem so silly that laughter replaces the anger I feel secure within myself And allow intuition to guide me to the future Love and silence fill my heart and mind

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MIRACLE OF LIFE Inspired by seeing the newborn baby of a dear sister

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A newborn child So fragile and so beautiful So loving and yet so powerful It can make me move a mountain to protect and nurture it Evolution happens right here in front of me I can see my better self I can see the future of humanity Love, compassion were just words Innocence was just a feeling briefly glimpsed inside of me Now it’s taken form Manifested in the child before my eyes How could humanity ever fight within itself when such a miracle of life exists in every culture? Let’s move mountains of change Let’s nurture every fragile peace to protect the miracle of life Innocently placed in front of our eyes

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RESPECT FOR THE KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE OF MY TEACHERS A meditation on how the love for my teachers manifests itself as respect for their knowledge and experience

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The love in my heart can express itself in many forms Lately, I was wondering about the love for my teachers It is a deep kind of love Full of gratefulness, full of humility And full of the sweetest joy, when I can learn Its expression is of respect for knowledge and experience Its expression is of trust in the goodness of their teachings Its expression is in finding a way to apply their teachings to my life My trust in them is not with blindness Blindness would disrespect their knowledge My trust in them is not without knowing of their defects It’s because their knowledge and experience far outshine their weaknesses that my love for them is strong It’s because of their imperfections that I have hope to overcome my own My love for the light in them makes me want to strengthen the light in me For that I can become a teacher too

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THE DREAM LIVES ON In memory of Senator Ted Kennedy A dreamer who fought to make his dreams reality

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The Dream Lives On As the lion roars one more time With kindness and for justice For rights and righteousness and not just laws The dream lives on As the banner, carried high for so long handed to a new generation flies proudly in the wind The dream lives on As we fight not with swords and guns not with words and dirty tricks but with the love and strength of doing good The dream lives on As our hearts are full of hope As our minds are full of confidence that the future is ours, and it’s a better one The dream lives on As the lion roars one more time

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LOVE AND HATE How hate is really just perverted love, some things are simply not worth it

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Recently I had a realization: If I know and care about something then I love it Some might say that if I know and care about something then I might also hate it But I had another realization: I realized that hate is just the same as love projected through an ugly screen of thoughts I realized that there are only two solutions if I think I hate something Either I stop caring about it or I remove the ugly screen of thoughts Now my love is much more free It cares for beauty and dissolves its grip from ugliness

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THE COMMUNICATION CHANNEL OF LOVE About an art of communication that leads to understanding

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The communication channel of love is a fascinating piece of art It has threads of respect, threads of care and threads of playful banter Vibrating in wondrous harmony If used with honesty and with patience friend and enemy can respond alike Lover or stranger, brother or rival, ally or competitor All can have an open ear for it Once such a channel is open it doesn’t easily shut close again Harmony holds all sides in sync Leading to a mode of understanding This communcation channel of love is such an astounding thing Creating miracles in configurations in which no one thought it possible

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RELIGION VERSUS THE GREAT SPIRIT Religions are human concepts The Great Spirit is beyond them and yet so close

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Human beings have divided up the world into large numbers of religions Not only into those who profess to know the Gods Divine Also into those who profess to know the Gods of Science the Gods of Evolution They know that they are right It is the others who are wrong They could not possibly believe what the others do makes any sense They would betray their kind if they would allow themselves to consider any of the others methods The Great Spirit the all-pervading power does not know of such divisions ...

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Even the Spirit within a reflection of the Great in us does not know of these divisions either Placed inside each and every heart Love is the only method that it knows Desires for unity and recognition are the only desires that can awaken it Seeing the different reflections of the Great in oneself and others Eventually leads us to understanding Eventually allows us to love ourselves and others

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A LOVE FOR LIFE For the wedding of a dear friend

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A love for life Nurture the joy in the heart Keep your minds on each other Caring leads to understanding Understanding leads to knowledge of your needs Love will grow stronger every day A love for life Keep the creator in your heart Nurture the joy of the light within By Seeking the eternal Love leads to understanding Understanding leads to knowledge And faith will grow stronger every day A love for life May the heart guide you on your way May the eternal be your goal

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INNER SYSTEM OF MORALITY The inner system of morality was given to us by evolution but it needs to be trained by reward, guidance by example, and little nudges of punishment

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Morality requires subtlety Righteous conduct needs awareness from inside oneself Outside rules can help with guidance Fear of outside punishment might provide incentive Both, though, have most people thinking of how they could escape from them Simple rules could give people guidance of how to respect themselves and others Rare punishment could provide incentive of finding a constructive way of conduct Morality, though was built inside of us by evolution as soon as human societies did form A system of reward and punishment for social conduct and relations is already wired into our brain ...

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The system though needs training Temptation may cause confusion When lesser things are more rewarded When higher things are punished by neglect The system will respond to harmony To guidance by example To actions that make sense Harmony Leading to feeling good for actions which bring rewards for ourselves and all Harmony Causing little nudges of feeling bad when we don’t behave so well

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GRATEFULNESS A feeling to wake up with every morning

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Love is a feeling and a power directed to my fellow human beings Love is a feeling and response to the greater one But more than love it’s gratefulness that I wake up with every morning Gratefulness for how far I’ve come Gratefulness for how much I’ve learned Gratefulness to be alive and see evolution happening inside of you and me

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A subtle poetic expression of a desire for an evolved society. A critique of humanity without being critical. A plea for compassion and for love without the request of giving up individuality. A dream with a call for action. The poet takes us on a path for evolution of the collective human consciousness. Come along for the journey and you might experience a transformation of your own.