Are we all the same?

Question from the Internet:

“I think everyone is the same. Does anyone else agree?”

Yes, and no.

On the one hand, we are all the same, as our actual “matter”, the engine that drives us is the same, insatiable, all-wanting, and all-consuming desire for pleasure and fulfillment. It is this desire — with its constantly changing and fluctuating lack of fulfillment or attained fulfillment gives us the sensation of life. It is this desire that makes us move a finger or leave any “restful or idle” state, when we start making efforts for a new and greater fulfillment or when we escape actual or expected painful situations for ourselves.

On the other hand, this all-powerful and all-wanting desire dresses into a unique set of actual desires and their fulfillment, which unique “fingerprint” or palette of desires makes each and every person unique and incomparable to others.

We can categorize the main desires driving us into the “animate” desires of food, sex, family, shelter, and general survival, and the “social” desires of wealth, power, respect, and knowledge. But how we each value and chase these desires — even in our modern society where we are all brainwashed to want and consume similar things — makes us all different.

Moreover, we all observe, perceive, and sense the world and other people through 100% egocentric, subjective, and individualistic filters and viewpoints. What we consider “true”, “good”, “attractive” or the opposite is unique to us only. Our “facts” and “proof” are again personal and it is impossible to convince others about our own “truth”.

This explains why we can’t agree with each other even on the most fundamental and crucial questions and issues that influence our survival. This also explains why we consider each other as rivals, competitors, and enemies and why all our life is spent through ruthless competition, where we try to succeed and survive at each other’s expense.

Only when we study ourselves and our inherent nature can we understand our relationships with each other and why human history has been an endless chain of recurring vicious cycles. We can also understand why we can’t even comprehend, let alone solve the mounting global issues and problems that stated to threaten our continuing human survival on this planet.

We can’t suppress or erase our inherent nature and we can’t suppress or erase our individual differences and diversity. Any such attempts will only invite violent rebound reactions.

But we can understand our inherent nature and learn how to harness our all-powerful and all-consuming desire for survival and fulfillment in a way, that becomes an engine for mutually integrated, positive, and constructive co-existence and cooperation.

For this, we need a unique, purposeful, and practical method, which can, first of all, make us understand and actually feel how interdependent we have become in this globally integrated world, and how much the health, success, and survival of any individual is irrevocably and inevitably intertwined with the health, success, and survival of the whole, global collective and nature.

If we already understand and felt that for our physical survival, we have to all become like healthy cells of the same, single, living organism, we will gradually sense and discover much higher and more important common and mutual desires we can fulfill as a result of this mutual integration and cooperation.

These new desires that will be born from our integrated co-existence will catapult us into a completely different, qualitatively much higher Human existence.