Modern science is based on the philosophy of “How
to do”. Scientists do not question what to do but
just how to do something. This philosophy also influences
the people in industrialized countries and they stop asking
the question what should they do but just ask how to do
what they want. This philosophy is not very good for life
nor for the world because then people do stupid things and
create more problems in their lives and also in the world.
However when you really start thinking what you should do,
you often do not find what you should do except for daily
necessities. You do not find anything extraordinary. That
is why you change to thinking about how to do what you want.
Here you are again using material logic. In material logic
you must find a goal as big and as far in the future as
possible in order to make an effort to achieve it. In life
it is not like this. You just have to know what you should
do today. It is not necessary to know what to do tomorrow.
However, if you do what you should do every day, you will
achieve a great life in the end. This is the logic of life.
Knowing what to do today does not mean you should forget
about tomorrow. You must imagine what will happen tomorrow.
It is good to imagine what will happen after you die. You
should have a lot of imagination about the future and yet
you do not have to know what to do tomorrow. You just have
to know what to do at this moment.
It is necessary to remember that the majority of people
in the world are just busy doing what they should do in
order to live their daily lives. Even in industrialized
countries it was like that until one hundred years ago.
These days we can live quite comfortably without working
but it is only because we use petrol and gas. Without petrol
and gas, every one must work much harder just to live their
daily lives. Even poor people in Europe are living with
more comfort than kings and queens in 18 th century.
It is true that we do not have to work so much in order
to live our daily lives because we have gas and electricity
which do most of the work. We have a lot of spare time.
So when you have nothing to do, you must start Being. You
must keep a physically good posture with calm breathing
and do meditation. Keep this meditation while you do what
is necessary to live your daily life. Then you start to
find what you should do in your life.
The important point is Being creates Doing. This is how
life is made. In material science doing creates being. You
do something to create a material accomplishment. In life
being in a good posture creates what you should do in life.
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