making problems

The sole purpose of the human being is to make problems. I know I'll put a few readers off with that remark, but maybe they'll come to share the humor of it with me instead of seeing it as, well, a problem. It's all a matter of how you take the news.

The reason I suggest the human being's sole purpose is to make problems is that once the human being stops making problems, the human being disappears. This odd turn of events is something you have to experience to confirm, and you can.

It's really quite simple. All you have to do is admit that everything is already perfect, that you and the world are already perfect. If it's hard for you to see things that way, that's the human being part of you doing its primary job: making problems.

If, on the other hand, you can access that perspective, if you can temporarily entertain the idea that the wisdom of life knows better than you do, and that maybe that wisdom is always moving all things in the best possible direction, you begin to disappear.

Disappear is a strong word. I like it because it's a strong word. But I understand if the human being part of you is objecting to it as too strong a word. That would mean the human being part of you is doing its job: making problems. Objecting.

Where is the human being part of you if you suspend that function for a moment? What if you don't object? What if you don't have a problem? What if you don't make any? Where is the human being part of you if you suspend that function forever? It's gone.

Imagine yourself sitting perfectly still. Imagine the world going about its hectic and fathomless business and regardless of what you see, you remain perfectly still, not only on the outside, but on the inside, where it actually counts. Imagine it.

You can do it. You can bring that state of tranquility into the life you are leading right now, right here, starting from the very next breath. If you want to be at peace and to promote peace in the world, that's the only way. By being that peace.

Do you think the world will become peaceful without each of us individually being peace? How can that result be possible? We've already tried it the other way. We've already tried everyone thinking they're right and campaigning against wrong.

It doesn't work. It perpetuates the very mind set it wants to eliminate: right v. wrong. If you ever think you're right, you're the same as the one you make wrong. If you ever think someone's wrong, you're the same, you're wrong too. It doesn't work.

Yet that's the human purpose in a nutshell: making problems. Never does that purpose play out more effectively than when it is able to mask itself as its opposite. Never are we making more problems than when we are making solutions.

But what else can human beings do? They can admit to themselves that they're sole purpose is to make problems. They can catch themselves doing it pretty much all the time, whenever they decide the world needs their improvements.

They can also learn to laugh that their sole purpose is absurd. They can laugh at the absurdity of it every time the purpose takes hold. I'm making problems again. You can say that to yourself in the middle of doing it. You can laugh.

Then you can try something else. Try accepting things as they are for a moment. Try feeling perfectly all right. Really feel it. Then operate from there. Exclusively. If you have anything to give, what could be more helpful than that? Not another solution.