Thoughts on desires, life, and death

Question from the Internet:

“If I only have one life, then shouldn’t I do whatever I want at all times?”

In truth, we are doing whatever we want all the time. Our “matter”, the engine that drives our life is the insatiable desire for self-fulfillment.

We “die”, we become depressed, incapable to move when we do not have any desires to pull us forward, to offer us anything compared to our present state.

So the question is not about doing whatever we want. The question is what it is that we want, where do our desires come from?

And here it becomes complex, since what we want, how we want is influenced by many factors. We have our inherent qualities, aspirations organized around the instinctive and social desires of food, sex, family, wealth, power, fame, and knowledge. How we aspire to do those things is very much influenced by our upbringing, education and mostly by the society, environment, we live in.

If we honestly examine “what we want”, we will see that we want what others want, since we constantly measure ourselves, we define our self-esteem compared to others.

If we lived alone, in a remote jungle, or on a remote island, we would lose most of our desires, only our animalistic survival instinct remaining.

Thus in truth, what we want, how we want, what we seemingly do not want all depend on the environment, society that influences us 24/7.

But while this might sound bad, we can use this inevitable mutual influence, being a product of our environment for our advantage.

You said “we have one life”, but here we can explore and develop what kind of life we have.

We can continue living this honestly very low level, limited, instinctive “subhuman” life where everybody chases temporary, physical desires and material fulfillment, living from involuntary birth to (mostly) involuntary death, trying to fulfill our selfish desires like everybody else never getting true satisfaction.

We can also develop a very different life, again through the desires, needs of others. But not with the aim of accumulating, capturing, hoarding everything others want, but learning how to find deeper desires, needs in others towards meaning, purpose of life and starting to fulfill their needs in a selfless, unconditional way.

If we can set up initially small environments, groups where like-minded people who already started to desire to get to know our actual Human purpose in life beyond the usual physical desires interconnect, if these people — above fulfilling their comfortable, natural necessities — devote all the rest of their time and effort to increase, strengthen each other’s need to know why we are Human beings, what our role is in Nature’s perfect, integrated system, we can together develop a very different life.

By committing ourselves to selflessly, unconditionally serve each other’s “Human” desire for purpose, for getting to know the system of reality with its plane and cause and effect processes, we can elevate ourselves above the instinctively “single-cell” existence each only caring about themselves. We can acquire a unique, unprecedented collective existence with a collective consciousness and intellect.

By devoting ourselves to sensing each other’s “Human desires” and keeping on trying to fulfill them, we generate a unique flow of life between us like the flow of life between the cells of our bodies. We completely forget about ourselves and exist through this flow, while we still exist externally as we are right now, but our consciousness is “transplanted” into our common existence.

Then instead of our usual “single-cell” consciousness, perception of reality we gain a qualitatively much higher collective viewpoint, like our usual consciousness over our cells and organs that “build us”.

This new, collective, selfless, unconditionally serving life gives us a sense of existence that is beyond the subjective, egocentric limitations of time, space, physical life, or death. Thus while we have only “one life” this life can become perfect, infinite, and eternal, independent of our physical state.

This is not a fairy tale, mysticism, religion, or philosophy. This is something anybody can develop, attain here and now, with the help of a unique, purposeful, and highly practical educational method that is based on Nature’s laws.