Materialistic mind of mine

There is a part of me that has come to the realization that material things don’t really matter in the long run, since in the long run we are all dead anyways.  Material posessions always eventually degrade into the stardust they are made out of, even humans.  The world of form is temporary, fleeting, and ultimately unimportant.  You are more than the stardust you are made out of.

The elevation of consciousness is what is important.  The realization that we are not what we own is what is important.  Forgiveness and compassion for those who have harmed you and your family is what is important.  These things are important because ultimately they bring inner peace to one’s consciousness.

Rejecting the state comes naturally when you have total compassion and forgiveness for your fellow man.  A sane society would take criminals and coddle them like children who simply didn’t know any better.  We put people in cages and threaten people with violence strictly because our identities are tied to the world of form.  If people truly put the elevation of consciousness above the material, there wouldn’t be a state running around threatening people over violations of property and person.

Material things are nice, but does the theft or destruction of material property justify violent responses by society against the perpetrators?  If a child runs down the beach and destroys a sand castle that another child was building, do we throw him in a cage over it?  Of course not.  However, if a man walks down the street and breaks or steals something that took another person a few hours to create, do we throw him a cage?  What’s the difference?  The man obviously has the same level of consciousness as the child or he wouldn’t have done what he did.  And society’s response is obviously the same as that of the child who had his sand castle destroyed.  Society throws a temper tantrum and lashes out violently over the destruction or theft of “stuff”.

The realization that the material isn’t important makes writing articles that ultimately revolve around the improvement of material production to be a drag on my psyche.  I can see why the Buhddist monks limit themselves to a wood bowl and a tunic.  By rejecting material possessions, it prevents a person from identifying themselves with the things they own.  Most people in this world derive their sense of self from the things they own.  You’re not going to see a Buddhist monk pull out a gun to defend his wood bowl or tunic.  Perhaps that’s why the monks have been historically persecuted so heavily by statists.  The monks lifestyle represents the rejection of the reason to have a state in the first place.