(03-18-2012, 10:33 AM)Shemaya Wrote: So that is why I suggest opening our hearts in compassion and not accepting things the way they are.But we don't understand things 'the way they are'. So what are we to accept (or in your case 'not accept').
"In the context of doing work in the disciplines of the personality, in order to be of more full efficiency in the central acceptance of the self, it is first quite necessary to know the distortions of the self which the entity is accepting. "
We've discovered some superficial social symptoms which we disagree with. A lot of those symptoms had to do with lack of acceptance in the first place, yet similar to allopathic medicine, we offer a 'prescription' to treat these symptoms without addressing the cause. And not surprisingly, the symptoms persist.
I agree with J. Krishnamuriti - the individual and society are the same thing. This necessarily means that there is a reciprocal dynamic involved in all observed behavior. In other words, some aspect of the pathology is within all participants, on some level.