Today I want to talk about addressing problems.
We all have problems.
Nobody has problems in this room? I’m trying to find some kind of
universality in sharing. I guess the way to approach problems is to
understand what kind of standard we set in terms of absolute on a primary
level, a secondary level , and physical level.
What I mean by primary
absolute is absolutes like the laws of physics. It’s stuff that we’re
learning. There are things that are confirmed and we know that exists to the
extent that we understand and that we have verified it to the point that,
due our limitations, that’s how we perceive the physical world to exist. And
even that has certain absolute value.
And secondary absolute
will be something that has to do with intelligence that WE manifest in our
reality to create some kind of law and order. So this is human-based stuff
the laws that we live under and by. If we break the law whatever punitive or
legal addressing that needs to be dealt with will be done or remedied.
The third level to me is
kind of physical stuff but it is etiquette. Some people get offended if I
use colorful words. You protest to your friends and since we have a small
society it will ultimately come back to my ears and I’ll hear bla-bla-bla
and that kind of stuff.
We have certain
standards, something of universal value on the real of intellect and
physical that we set and we try to use as some kind of benchmark to regulate
our lives. Having said that, the problem is that certain individuals
don’t recognize the set standard of absolute whether is is primary,
secondary, quote, unquote, or etiquette wise. That’s basically how problems
arise.
And when you talk about
problems, iIn society, most people don’t live alone. Right? Even if you’re
single and don’t have family still you live in society and make a living.
That is unless you are like Jeremiah Johnson living out in the hills
somewhere hunting for a living.
Unless you’re somebody
like that, maybe there’s that kind of exception, but otherwise everybody,
everybody, has some kind of connection to society in general. You can’t
depart from that gregariousness because we need it. You don’t want to be
alone, first of all.
So when we talk about
that basic human reality the problem arises by not understanding the nature
of gregariousness which creates complexity. Why? Because it’s individuals
coming together creating a gregarious reality. So that creates complexity
because we believe that we are individually unique. We’re idiosyncratic,
however minute the difference might be, it’s different. There is some sort
of difference recognizable.
But many times the
complexity, we blame the complexity because we don’t take time to understand
all the factors that are involved, even just dealing with your immediate
group; never mind society in general, just in your gregarious setting.
That’s why a problem arises.
How many parents can
honestly say “I understand all my children’s idiosyncratic reality?”
Sometimes I want to ask that to my Father. Well, I want to ask you the
same question. If you have more than two or three children, how much do you
know about your kids? What do you really know? How much are you connected
with them? The problem arises when there’s that disconnection.
To recognize a problem,
first of all you have to understand how many factors are involved in the
picture. What are the components that are vital components? There are always
vital components in any complex organism or any complex thing. How many
vital factors are there? You have to identify and recognize and understand
them, and know how they connect to one another, how they make that
relationship in whatever reciprocal ways people do, just to have a
relationship.
If you don’t understand
that clearly, if there is a problem, you can never address it. Many times
the problem is unsolved, or you say to your self “It’s difficult to solve”
because you haven’t fully identified all the factors. That’s why it’s
unsolved; it cannot be solved; it’s difficult to solve. It can be
solved. Just as anything that we’re still learning through science or
whatever, just about what we learn about the physical universe, the laws of
physics; ther’s still a ways to go.
Healing our body for
instance, there are many diseases that we don’t understand how to cure,
because we haven’t fully comprehended or identified all the factors involved
that cause that kind of problem. Therefore we don’t have the ability to
address the remedy for the problem. We still have a long way to go just
dealing with the physical universe as we know it.
So, let’s start with
things that you can do. Let’s not talk about things that will take years and
years, generations and generations to fully comprehend. Even changing the
world, it will take generations. That’s why you can’t really take yourself
that seriously. I’m in the process of things; that’s about it. I’m not
Father. I’m in the process of things; that’s about it.
So when you address that
kind of reality, the kind of reality that we face, because that is true;
that affects our lives. That has something to do with our future too,
however long you live. Just recently a member that I know personally
passed away. (tearfully) And I hope that she goes in peace and she settles
in quickly, and have hope that her family will be taken care of by people
that care about her.
In other words, our
lives are very short. Even with the short life that we are face with we
still have a ways to do, a ways to go. There are many problems that we still
haven’t fully comprehended. Why? Because we can’t control them. You
know, just because you have the position of leadership, if you don’t know
how the people below you work, you can’t really become a good leader. Of
course there is a cliché or a certain concept that is obvious. If you want
to be a good leader you have to lead the way.
There are so many
programs that try to teach you, whether it’s governmental or religiously
motivated that try to help people. The US government has a program
called The Peace Corps. Right? I think that was starteded in the ‘60s by
John Kennedy right? There’s so many other organizations that have done a lot
of good. Mostly Christian-based organizations do charitable work. Even
Jimmy Carter and his Habitat for Humanity, he goes and builds houses to give
to people in need, who are low income or in poverty.
If you don’t do
something like that, it’s very difficult for even the good-intended ideas to
last. You have to know what your limitations are, you have to
know yourself. You have to know what you’re doing. You have to understand
your position, yourself first. Know your limitations. Know your boundaries.
Know your responsibilities and it connects to others.
That kind of reality
should come down from above. Right? We try to talk about hierarchy, law and
order, but if that is important to us, that should be a given. That kind of
attitude, that kind of way of living should be a given. Otherwise do your
own thing. You don’t want to pretend you won’t go far.
Don’t laugh. What you
see is what you get. You know what I’m saying? And it should be that because
you can’t change yourself if you’re going to pretend. Obviously you’re not
going to help the people around you; you’re certainly not going to change
the world. You can only get better when you understand your
limitations. Then you can expand them, increase your boundary, your
potential.
The things that give us
problems are often immature confidence, arrogance, quick judgment, jumping
into judgment without fully grasping the issue at hand, even the issue at
hand. That’s the problem. If we can just step back when we make any
decision; if we can just talk about the basic stuff, I think that many
problems that we have we can address with our own hands. We don’t God’s
help; we don’t need Father’s intervention.
You can solve it. We can
take care of those problems. If we can’t do that, don’t think you’re going
to change the world. That is just a lie. That will never come true.
We can do it; start from yourself. Understand your limitations. Know “you”
and try to connect to the people around you. Try to get to know them.
Understand those factors all the factors that create complexity.
So work small. You don’t
always have to think big. Everybody likes to do that. I know, but work
within your limit, If you want to understand greater complications, then
start small. Try to understand it; see how it works. And LEARN! Have
life experiences, that’s important, not just the theory stuff. You can talk
about stuff until the cows come home. But look, you have to know how to work
it. If you don’t know how to work it, you’re not going to change anything.
Start from there. Tell
yourself that that’s important for me, for my future, for my betterment. If
you just say that it’s for other people then it’s just sounds so cliché-ish,
and something like lip service, and then it’s almost like brainwashed stuff.
Tell it like it is, that you like to hear it, the way you would understand.
There’s nothing wrong with that.
The nature of a humble
man is nothing other than a man that keeps his arrogance to himself. You
understand me? Everybody’s arrogant. Everybody’s self-centered. You start
with self. Right? That’s the place where we all begin. So just
try to work with what you have. And don’t lie! Just recognize it and
sometimes say it. But hey! If it’s true, it’s true! I don’t want somebody
telling me it’s not true when I know it’s true.
Anyway, something like
that, if we can start, I think we can do something about it. We’ll start to
feel the spirit and stuff in our lives. Then that’s something. That is a new
beginning. BECAUSE YOU FEEL IT! IT’S NOT SOMEONE TELLING YOU.
YOU FEEL IT! YOU SEE IT!
You can see it in your
mind, even if you don’t see it right now, you feel it but at the same time
you can see it. That something. That something is change.
I’ll be away for a month. I’ve got something to take care of.
So I’ll see you in May.
Sorry, but I got to take care of something.
So take care of
yourself.
Okay?
See you later.
