There was an eagle sitting in a tree, resting and doing nothing. A little rabbit saw an eagle and asked: “Can I sit like you and do nothing?” “Sure, why not?” – replied the eagle. The rabbit sat down under a tree and began to rest. Suddenly a fox appeared, grabbed and ate the rabbit. The moral of the story is this: to sit and do nothing, you have to sit very high (fable, source unknown).
However, this is not a solution, because the eagle also has its own problems, such as enemies to defend against. No living being can exist without caring about anything.
We can only find absolute peace and tranquility when we are no longer alive. The supreme power of nature is the power of love and giving, which is in absolute peace. For us such a state is death, because to achieve it we have to kill our selfishness, our desires to enjoy only for our own sake.
The whole process of evolution leads us to the point where we will have to kill our selfish intention for our own benefit in order to rise to the degree of higher power.
We are like the rabbit in the allegory: we cannot be at rest, and we need to be on guard against the danger coming at us from all sides. But the danger exists because we are attached to our selfishness. Therefore, lest we become like the rabbit in the allegory, we must know exactly what awaits us, what we must sacrifice, and how to become free. That is, we need to know the nature of our world and the upper world, and the ways of transition from one to the other.
It is quite a complex educational process that requires remaking oneself in the process of becoming an upper world person.
Peace in the upper world begins with the fulfillment of the condition “love your neighbor as yourself.” This can be considered the height of the eagle. In other words, we can allow ourselves some initial minimal peace if we at least theoretically accept the law of “love your neighbor as yourself.”
Accepting “love your neighbor as yourself” at least theoretically means that we begin to look for ways to master this state, to look for ways to step out and rise above our selfish nature.
Whether we like it or not, nature has her own plan for us – to evolve us to a shared state of connection, bonded by the bond of love. Since we evolve to this level by nature’s given duty, we must prepare ourselves to move to this level.
Humanity is beginning to realize how far it is from this ideal state. We must rise in our understanding of the need to reach the state of “love your neighbor as yourself” ahead of us, and then we can take a rational step in that direction.
We will be hindered on all sides, but we can overcome all of this if we treat ourselves not as billions of separate and competing individuals, but as a whole.
