All men are born innocent. It's the world that's evil. It infects their hearts and turns them into monsters.
I doubt this is a true statement. Because by observing my brothers' children I see the human heart - it is selfish. It's created that way from the tiny cell in our body. Each child wants it his or her way. If one gets it and the other doesn't, the one who doesn't will cry until it gets what it wants. Here - I used "it" because I'm referring to the human heart. This is common in all babies. I'm sure the world does play a part in shaping a child into the adult he or she becomes. But at this stage, they are just six months old, one year old, two years old, three years old or four years old. They already exhibit such selfishness that I've never seen or maybe I just never took the time to observe and study them. I remember my mother told me once that when I was a baby, I cried a lot at night. I took away her sleep. She didn't know this, but I'm sure it contributed to the causes of her health problems. My mother didn't know why. She just thought it was a baby, and babies cry a lot. She was uneducated. She got married when she was fourteen -- a baby herself. Now that I take this view with a microscope and look at it from a critical standpoint, I see myself -- my human heart being very selfish, just like my nephews and nieces.
The world just adds fuel to it. The influences of the world help shape it. Growing up, that is what the world taught me, to mind my status as a human being and build it, to bring it up on the status ladder by heightening my self esteem and feed my ego with endless materialism in the forms of luxury cars, jewelry, watches, fashions, homes, food, and mobile phones nowadays. Notice the world of fashion brands, people over the world keep churning out their own line saying, "Buy me, buy me if you want look cool, keep up with the Jones and have a high class status." Brands such as Chanel, Luis Vuitton, Burberry, Armani and more. The designers/creators of these brands are saying "Buy my brand if you want to look good, if you want to be high class." This is what I call "adding the fuel to it" or feeding your ego. What they are doing is creating an image. They are creating a class status. This is very harmful because it keeps fueling the self (ego) to be more selfish. They are saying to be "qualified" on the upper class status you have to use this product, own this brand of car or wear this fashion. What I say is who gives a shit about it. Who cares. Stop creating problems for the world. Stop being selfish. The world has enough problems already.
A lot of people in the world think like this: They think they must wear this brand of fashion, drive this brand of cars, live in this kind of luxury home, be with this kind of people to qualify for the high class status. This is stupid. It's pathetic. Feeding your ego, heightening your self-esteem, indulging in your selfish needs, is harmful to yourself and other people.
In 2010 I joined this network marketing company called USANA where I got to go or my recruiter made me go to this event they called "The USANA Convention" in Salt Lake City, Utah. On one morning we were driving to the convention in downtown Utah, to be what I like to called "to be brainwashed" by the corporation so that we would recruit more customers to buy more of their ridiculously expensive products and make them rich. Our driver was telling everyone that to gain respect, you must wear all these fashion brands and spend these money on them. I was in the back seat like, "Man, you're fucking stupid. You're really stupid thinking like that. And you're an idiot." That conversation really turned me off. I hated those people ever since. A lot of those people are two-faced, fake and pretentious. I didn't know that at the time, but after that I did. And I told myself I would never associate with people like that again or live in their kind of world.
As a grown man I have learned to let go part of my selfishness. I have learned to suppress my ego. One by one, year by year, slowly I've learned humility. I've learned to let go my status. I care less about what people think of me. I care less about what brand of fashion I wear. I'm just a human being like you and everybody else. In the end, I'm going to die just like everyone else. There are more important things in life to be concerned about than to indulge in my selfish needs (selfish heart's desire). Like what I usually say to people, "It doesn't matter how pretty your food look, how delicious or how expensive, once you put them in your mouth they all are going to turn into shit. And all shit smells the same. So they are the same." It doesn't matter how you look, how you live, what your status you have, in the end you will die and turn into nutrients for the plants and microorganisms. And in an ironic twist of fate you become shit like the food you eat.
I think the monster is already born since the baby emerged from the womb. The heart is made that way. God made the human heart that way if you were to put in a religious understanding. In a scientific understanding, whatever, may it be it an engineer or some kind of advanced alien species that created the heart, it made it that way. Another way of saying is human nature. But we cannot use the latter as an excuse to say that it is something out of our control, and that we have to just let it be. We should not just let it be. It is dangerous. Of course we can control or shape it, but only if we choose to. And most people choose not to. They'd rather just indulge in it or maybe they don't have the ability to see through it. But as humans, our purpose in life is to escape from our heart. To free ourselves from the selfishness of the heart. To observe and study in order understand and unravel the mystery.
In closing, this is what I would say: "But it's the human heart that created this human world we live in, which shapes who we are and what we become." So you cannot just blame the world. You should blame the heart. The heart is the origin of the problem. To see where a river flows from we must follow it to where it begins. The human world that we live in has been created by the human heart. And our purpose is to understand the heart, so that we can free ourselves from it and build a better human world.
I doubt this is a true statement. Because by observing my brothers' children I see the human heart - it is selfish. It's created that way from the tiny cell in our body. Each child wants it his or her way. If one gets it and the other doesn't, the one who doesn't will cry until it gets what it wants. Here - I used "it" because I'm referring to the human heart. This is common in all babies. I'm sure the world does play a part in shaping a child into the adult he or she becomes. But at this stage, they are just six months old, one year old, two years old, three years old or four years old. They already exhibit such selfishness that I've never seen or maybe I just never took the time to observe and study them. I remember my mother told me once that when I was a baby, I cried a lot at night. I took away her sleep. She didn't know this, but I'm sure it contributed to the causes of her health problems. My mother didn't know why. She just thought it was a baby, and babies cry a lot. She was uneducated. She got married when she was fourteen -- a baby herself. Now that I take this view with a microscope and look at it from a critical standpoint, I see myself -- my human heart being very selfish, just like my nephews and nieces.
The world just adds fuel to it. The influences of the world help shape it. Growing up, that is what the world taught me, to mind my status as a human being and build it, to bring it up on the status ladder by heightening my self esteem and feed my ego with endless materialism in the forms of luxury cars, jewelry, watches, fashions, homes, food, and mobile phones nowadays. Notice the world of fashion brands, people over the world keep churning out their own line saying, "Buy me, buy me if you want look cool, keep up with the Jones and have a high class status." Brands such as Chanel, Luis Vuitton, Burberry, Armani and more. The designers/creators of these brands are saying "Buy my brand if you want to look good, if you want to be high class." This is what I call "adding the fuel to it" or feeding your ego. What they are doing is creating an image. They are creating a class status. This is very harmful because it keeps fueling the self (ego) to be more selfish. They are saying to be "qualified" on the upper class status you have to use this product, own this brand of car or wear this fashion. What I say is who gives a shit about it. Who cares. Stop creating problems for the world. Stop being selfish. The world has enough problems already.
A lot of people in the world think like this: They think they must wear this brand of fashion, drive this brand of cars, live in this kind of luxury home, be with this kind of people to qualify for the high class status. This is stupid. It's pathetic. Feeding your ego, heightening your self-esteem, indulging in your selfish needs, is harmful to yourself and other people.
In 2010 I joined this network marketing company called USANA where I got to go or my recruiter made me go to this event they called "The USANA Convention" in Salt Lake City, Utah. On one morning we were driving to the convention in downtown Utah, to be what I like to called "to be brainwashed" by the corporation so that we would recruit more customers to buy more of their ridiculously expensive products and make them rich. Our driver was telling everyone that to gain respect, you must wear all these fashion brands and spend these money on them. I was in the back seat like, "Man, you're fucking stupid. You're really stupid thinking like that. And you're an idiot." That conversation really turned me off. I hated those people ever since. A lot of those people are two-faced, fake and pretentious. I didn't know that at the time, but after that I did. And I told myself I would never associate with people like that again or live in their kind of world.
As a grown man I have learned to let go part of my selfishness. I have learned to suppress my ego. One by one, year by year, slowly I've learned humility. I've learned to let go my status. I care less about what people think of me. I care less about what brand of fashion I wear. I'm just a human being like you and everybody else. In the end, I'm going to die just like everyone else. There are more important things in life to be concerned about than to indulge in my selfish needs (selfish heart's desire). Like what I usually say to people, "It doesn't matter how pretty your food look, how delicious or how expensive, once you put them in your mouth they all are going to turn into shit. And all shit smells the same. So they are the same." It doesn't matter how you look, how you live, what your status you have, in the end you will die and turn into nutrients for the plants and microorganisms. And in an ironic twist of fate you become shit like the food you eat.
I think the monster is already born since the baby emerged from the womb. The heart is made that way. God made the human heart that way if you were to put in a religious understanding. In a scientific understanding, whatever, may it be it an engineer or some kind of advanced alien species that created the heart, it made it that way. Another way of saying is human nature. But we cannot use the latter as an excuse to say that it is something out of our control, and that we have to just let it be. We should not just let it be. It is dangerous. Of course we can control or shape it, but only if we choose to. And most people choose not to. They'd rather just indulge in it or maybe they don't have the ability to see through it. But as humans, our purpose in life is to escape from our heart. To free ourselves from the selfishness of the heart. To observe and study in order understand and unravel the mystery.
In closing, this is what I would say: "But it's the human heart that created this human world we live in, which shapes who we are and what we become." So you cannot just blame the world. You should blame the heart. The heart is the origin of the problem. To see where a river flows from we must follow it to where it begins. The human world that we live in has been created by the human heart. And our purpose is to understand the heart, so that we can free ourselves from it and build a better human world.