Suppose someone said, I’m only human.
Obviously that person would be referring to a mistake they made.
What is it about humans that makes regrettable acts excusatory?
Have we not been granted responsibilities to uphold and an example to stand by as the apex species?
I’m talking about the responsibility to utilize our gifts.
It is fairly common to use the word human in the context of imprudence and being prone to immutable mistakes.
This belief of human limitation is comparable to an infant as if without legal title and legal majority; a foolish child that needs constant aid and guidance.
This is an unconscious belief that consolidates more with age. Desensitization to mistakes is formed, making repeated affronts acceptable without reflection.
What’s the reason for this lack of nobility in the connotation to humans?
In order to understand mortals, you have to do more than simply study their ecology, you must observe it’s will and what it’s protecting.
Take for example, the mind. In its primitive form it makes mistakes, tends to express indignation, inflict cruelty when it can’t get the world to do what it wants.
Perhaps this can be illustrated using a scenario. A feeling of hunger raises the attention of the mind. It begins to think about what it might want. It starts to contemplate which place to eat at, what order to choose, the selection of toppings, the sauce, wether it wants the regular version or the deluxe version, wether it wants a sweet drink or a stronger beverage. All sorts of ideas string into the thoughts of the mind.
At this point wether the heart just wants food is unconsidered and unimportant. The mind has steered control of the ship and it has to sail it with utmost authority only choosing the best and proper meal. When the mind chooses its answer it finalizes out of indecisiveness and uncertainty, because there were just too many options.
The heart sense the situation with a blow to its assurance and closes and contracts its eminence. Unlike the mind, the heart feels and knows and when it choose it does so with certainty.
When the food arrives, the mind asserts itself head first.
The mind dissects the meal in careful assortment and meticulous fashion. A shock jolts into the forefront of the mind; the meal was not exactly what it ordered. Riddled with contempt, the mind expresses dissatisfaction with insistent control. Knowing full well it was already looking for details to pick at.
Because that’s how the unconscious mind works, it preemptively scans for things to be upset about. Suddenly a tantrum is thrown, it raises a finger at the servers, the food managers, someone is to be blamed for this brutish affront, says the mind. As the heart is watching this, it shutters in fear in reaction to the cruel acts of the mind and curls into its shell to mourn the death of its innocent wish.
Taking the lens of an objective observer, the mind is so sure of itself yet lacks any full awareness. The moment it begins to overthink, over assert itself; all awareness is lost, stuck in its own box. The mind was so certain that it was mistreated, undeserving, and even punished.
Turning to the heart, its only desire was that it get something to eat, it had no concern to indulge in analysis paralysis, it simply wanted food. IN the moment, its not realized that in the end it doesn’t matter if the order wasn’t perfect, all that needed was satiety. There’s no point in expressing indignation, because either way your going to be full. Your wasting energy and time at that point.
There are a few triggers the mind reacts to, agitation, tension, irritation, frustration etc. The mind doesn’t realize it in the moment, but even the heart has to be patient with the mind, it too has to muster the strength to withstand the cruelty it sees. The mind hits its head against the wall and disdains the acts of others done unto it.
High and mighty it seems to be perched up over others, the heart too has to endure pain, it too has felt disregarded.
In reflection to that, the mind has an opportunity to be humbled. It may seem that no matter what it can’t get the world to do what it wants, but that frustration also inhabits the heart.
All that wasted energy that could’ve been used towards the hearts desire, now has been drained.
For the mind, it takes a level of strength to lay down its weapons and armor. To be humbled takes an act of humility, it takes quite an immensity to step down in order to serve something bigger than ones singular existence and that is quite a noble cause.
The weapons and armor of the mind are its attachments, the integrated parts of its identity.
When the mind persists with unwavering will, it does so as a means to protect its identity.
Its false sense of power comes from its aggrandized importance of identity and will do anything to latch onto that sense of self.
Having excessive importance means claiming the right to suffer, feel in-dignified, feel ashamed, be punished, express dissatisfaction, any number of attributes on the human spectrum.
That is the false sense of freedom. The freedom to have contempt, the freedom to raise the finger at others, the freedom to complain. Such a deceptive freedom has its limitations.
The answer lies in the value and utility of what the ego is protecting. The value and utility of its identity is in its irresponsibility, unaccountability and lack of reflection. Because remaining that way means sustaining its self created existence.
Attaching to the human emotion spectrum is the trap. The trap of identity. The right to suffer is the ultimate trap.
At the root of the ego it holds guilt, that guilt comes from the over attributed responsibility of others suffering. The belief that suffering is a matter of what someone else does or say, the belief that someone can pass suffering onto another person.
First of all, in order to understand how this belief was formed, we must look at the period of infancy, the origin of belief. If a child makes a mistake he is punished, the parent exerts force through frustration and anger, inflicting the child. The child interprets their parent’s anger and upset as having caused it. The guilt of being responsible for another’s emotions.
As a result of this interpretation, a child believes that if someone is upset it is because they made a mistake, it is because of their existence. In coexistence with resigned parents, a child’s sense of self depends, is shaped and is measured by their parent’s mental and emotional states. Basically if a parent is inadequate emotionally, it is because of the child. This belief is then conditioned and engrained instantly.
The dead giveaway in the core belief is in it’s substance. It’s an interpretation, a false one at that. An interpretation even unconscious is learned. Learned interpretations and beliefs are held as true until proven false.
A child inclined to believe that it is not lovable, and taken even further, worthless.
Suffering cannot be passed onto someone else. Nothing outside of oneself can bring joy or misery.
To be free from one’s identity is to be liberated from the self created ego that has taken the role of caregiver.
Nothing outside of you can give you inner peace, nor do you harm, nor give you love, nothing outside of you can free you but yourself.
Our value as humans comes from intellect, goodwill, awareness, consciousness and objectivity. To use these gifts means an act of service.
Beauty is found in the free will to intend, have and act out of love as a means of forgiveness and compassion.
By becoming firmly aware of the guilt that lies dormant in the human heart and the cruelty that has been inflicted and acted on by it, the suffering cause by one belief; the human soul can then foster an objective awareness and the goodwill arrest that cruelty.
For the cruelty derives from the lack of worthiness and compassion. Every act of cruelty is an attempt to cry out for love. That violent act is a refusal and rejection of one’s inferiority and worthlessness.
No matter the circumstance, no matter what happens, no matter what the mind does, no matter the pain that resides in the heart; the decision maker, the objective observer, the soul waits in silence for its invitation and comes to the calling of the heart. Without judgement, shame or punishment it sits there in absolute attendance and full attention, its compassion flows to the heart and offers it reassurance.
The mind says, I am bad. The heart says, I am hurt. The soul says, you are loved.
Judging by the depth of the soul and the extension of its hand and how far it is willing to reach out to the mind and heart shows how valuable you are.
The suffering and the magnification of its pain is testament to how strong one’s will is. That is the value of free will.
It’s the full responsibility and the full weight of decision that is required to liberate oneself. The ability to have complete agency for one’s salvation and embracement to let go of identity is the ultimate form of free will.