Sensing, accepting the need for change

Question from the Internet:

“Would you like to be different from who you are? If so, what prevents you from changing?”

Our inherent nature, our instinctively self-serving, the self-justifying ego does not want to change, does not let us change.

Even if we “mentally” understand, agree to the need for change — like now Humanity recognizing that with our present lifestyle, Human system we are inevitably self-destructing — we want others to change, we want the world to change, but we simply cannot do not want to change ourselves.

True change — from an inherently egocentric, exploitative, hateful way of existence, when we exploit, use everything for our own sake, for selfish benefit in any given situation, in any conditions to a mutually responsible, mutually beneficial, integral way of life — is possible only in a unique, mutually supportive, mutually complementing environment.

Even in such an environment we also need the right, purposeful and highly practical method that makes the need for change so important, all-encompassing, so “life or death”, that the ego, the all-important self becomes simply paralyzed, so it allows us to change against, despite it.

It is either such an environment and method proactively or the increasing suffering in the world and in our personal lives that will convince us about the need for self-change.