From outside the box

It takes all kinds to make the world go round. I respect that. I respect other people for believing different than myself. What I do not respect is hypocrisy. And these days, I see a lot of hypocrisy. Hypocrisy is justified when you know that you are right and everybody who disagrees with you is wrong. Hypocrisy is a product of vanity which comes from self delusion. We allow ourselves to be deluded when we identify with the ego, or mind. Ego and mind are necessary for survival, however, they are not awareness but rather tools used by awareness. In awareness we see our connection to everything. In ego we see ourselves as separate from everything. It has been said that the mind makes a good slave but a terrible master....so true.

Once we see ourselves (or anything for that matter) as separate, we are automatically entered into a competition to be better and more knowledgeable than other things that are separate from us. This is the ego in full survival mode.The inner spirit, or the higher awareness in each individual knows this and is always waiting for us to change our identity mode from ego to awareness. There is no awareness in ego, only reactive thinking and self deluding unconsciousness. In awareness, we are awake. In ego we are asleep. Ego breeds pride and vanity. True awareness breeds wisdom and understanding.

So back to the hypocrisy thing. Hypocrisy is part of the human condition. We all go there, but some of us are permanently stuck there. That doesn't make it any easier to deal with. Those sleeping individuals who practice hypocrisy (individuals stuck in the ego mode) usually demand to be taken seriously. Often they are in positions of great authority and have much control over our personal lives. Sometimes they are just whiners who spend all of their time telling others how wrong they are which reinforces how right they (themselves) must be.

I have experienced my share of anger and frustration with hypocritical thinkers. Over the last several months that I have been blogging, I have tried to distinguish what I believe to be hypocritical thinkers, to expose their subtle manipulative ways of making a lie look like a truth. They seem to dominate politics, religion, and large industry. Actually, they are everywhere, these are just the areas where they have power and influence. As long as we are aware of their shenanigans, we do not have to be influenced by them, however, it is important that they get called on what they do, when they do it.

As for my own anger that I have dispalyed in many of my blogs over the last year, I too have been called on that. I know that my anger stems from my own inability to just accept others for who they are. And here lies my own hypocrisy. But that is part of the beauty of writing and expressing yourself. In the process of trying to expose others, you expose yourself! My ego latches onto my anger and justifies itself by making others look wrong. This is part of the subtleness of the ego trying to scream out for it's own existence. Well ego, you can snatch me now and then, but you cannot keep me! I wrote a while back that writing is great therapy. I'm just beginning to understand how true that statement is. That damn tricky ego....makes hypocrites out of us all.