Living in a money prison

When we speak of freedom, what does it really mean? What is it that sets us free and what keeps holding us back? In so called modern society money is the tool that pays our way to be able to make decisions what to do in life. It also defines who are the ones that can choose freely and who cannot. To be extreme (but truthful), who can live, who dies.

Maybe it was a conscious decision to test how far can I go and how free I am as a European citizen, as a person from a wealthy country to travel freely. I was aware that I had stayed in Turkey over three months and that I should go to the boarder to re-enter the country, to get the fifth stamp on my passport. It felt like a joke to get a validation for my existence so I instead didn’t give it a thought. A was willing to accept the consequences of my freedom to choose whether to get that stamp or not. So, I preferred to wait couple months to exit the country to show my presence to my family.
As I was proceeding in the slow queue towards the passport control the thought of having some difficulties with the stamp issues came to my mind again. But instead of worrying or hurrying in the line I continued smiling and accepting the situation as it was. What else could I do but to smile? I indeed had troubles to exit the country. But the problems were mainly problems for the police officer as he didn’t quite know how to proceed. I either had to pay 600liras fee or 150liras to just get out of the country, but not being able to get back in five years. All I could do was to give all that I had in money, give my freedom to re-enter the country in five years with a smile on my face aware of the fact that nothing can take away the freedom to smile within to every person, every creature, item and happening in life. If we worry and feel sad of the things that happen, it will show on our face and will not help anybody.

The whole day traveling to the airport I was aware of how complex life can be if we continue blaming the system, the society, but do not act upon a better future for the sake of the happiness of all being on focusing how good life is whether it is in a crowded traffic bus or in the queue of passport control or even while paying your way to the country of your origin. In fact, my smile became even larger realizing how the serious police officer in the counter did not smile back at me while he was typing my name to keep me in the database for the next five years. Even the fact that I wished him good day from the bottom of my heart did not make him gaze up from his piles of documents. I was being categorized as an invalid human being because of my unwillingness to use money as a way to what one might call freedom... I’d like to know what would have happen if I’d say no for paying my way out as well… Actually I did, but the police officer seemed so confused after I mentioned that my plane was about to leave so let him out of the misery. I also didn’t want my parents to wait my arrival any longer. And while sitting in the plane I couldn’t help laughing. Still I had money in my pockets, paper that can pay your way to almost anywhere; money that gives me the chance to fly across Europe in few hours rather than hitch-hike in the during the cold season; money that can pay myself a good health which more than 80% of the population cannot afford.

I have to admit that I feel sad of the fact that I cannot re-enter Turkey. I cannot see the life lasting friends that I made there, share my presence with them, hug them; look at them. And it is my own choice of course, to push the limits, to see what happens to both in my mind and around me. But instead of feeling stressed and blaming the system, I can only smile to it. I realize how much liberty has been taken away from a person that has no rights at all. And if we more fortunate could only show these people that they can stand up for their rights instead of being victims of the system and the people who keeps it rolling, world could be much more enjoyable place for everybody. I know that we all do not want same things in life and thus there is enough for everybody, but by restricting the freedom of people will just make them want more of what they do not have.

If we would just begin to see each person as not an enemy or one more person left in the passport queue before us, but our friend, somebody to love, we would not spend so much time waiting the life to start or worrying about the things that happen or might happen because we would soon realize nothing bad can happen when we love each other. The best we can do is to truly help those in need and accept everything that happens.

After all, monetary system is something that I can observe and laugh about, not something that I desperately hold on to. It is a proven fact that money runs the lives of the world. Rich get richer, poor poorer. That way we’ll never have equal rights for all being. Money together with our ego continues to keep ourselves in this prison, if we do not become aware. I have been without money, without worries about what to eat. Still, I survived and kept smiling. The airline company even lost my backpack on my way to Finland, but instead of spreading negativity on my mind and around me I realized there’s nothing much I can worry; I had everything I needed right there: air on my lungs; smile on my face, and less weight on my shoulders. Well, the weight I gain back the next day, but at least the things that happen made me realize the things I owned ended up owning me. They ended up defining and holding me back.

The question is: would we be able to live in the world without money and identifying ourselves with it?

Universe, connecting people

"The ideas which had grown over two thousand years of observation have had to be radically revised. In less than a hundred years, we have found a new way to think of ourselves. From sitting at the center of the universe, we now find ourselves orbiting an average-sized sun, which is just one of millions of stars in our own Milky Way galaxy. And our galaxy itself is just one of billions of galaxies, in a universe that is infinite and expanding. But this is far from the end of a long history of inquiry. Huge questions remain to be answered, before we can hope to have a complete picture of the universe we live in. I want you to share my excitement at the discoveries, past and present, which have revolutionized the way we think. From the Big Bang to black holes, from dark matter to a possible Big Crunch, our image of the universe today is full of strange sounding ideas, and remarkable truth. The story of how we arrived at this picture is the story of learning to understand what we see."
-STEPHEN HAWKING

It is time to connect the east and the west

For years we developed a gap between races. What I have realized by meditating and studying cultures, biology, geography, religions and the whole universe is that we need to start connecting ourselves with the universe inside us and the universe outside.
The West has used technology to study and discover the life around us, the East use more natural ways, their observations to study the same things.

As a species with the skills to use our hands and minds to create we should connect the both ways to discover world, not to create a gap between them and thus creating even bigger gap between different races, the friend next door and even our family. We let our believes and religion stand in the way. Instead we can connect each other by seeing not the differences but the indifference's in species. We can teach each other on what we know and listen to what the other has to teach for us. I always say give people three chances. The same goes with all the new things you try or learn.

In Western society we have always tried to explain things we see by exploring it outside instead of observing it. But in Asia the same discoveries are made by observing ourselves (meditating) within. When we go deeper in us we realize our existence in a bigger scale also. Both ways of studying the world around us to understand, to satisfy the human need to explore are good, as long as we enjoy what we are doing and help to create a better universe to all of us to enjoy it equally.

Science and spirituality have been separated by Religion and believes. But I have been able to discover the world outside and within to see spirituality has nothing to do with religion. Religion is something your surroundings teach you; even your school teaches you. But spirituality is something that is lacking in the western education system. You cannot really study spirituality; you can observe it and guide other to observe themselves and the world around us through spirituality. It will set us free from the old habits of thinking and doing things and gives us more space to truly discover the universe using both modern technology and spirituality.
I realized we that we are all connected a part of a much bigger picture than we can ever explain through thinking. But we can understand it, understand how important it is to give importance and respect every aspect and everything involved in our lives by starting in this small tip of an iceberg called human body. Listen to it in silence. Then we can explore the same universe around us by using technology to see the other galaxies, maybe even other universes.

We are capable to create a space ship by using modern science and our hands and mind to travel to the space, but we are so many times missing the small things in life that are the key to a bigger inventions. We can connect dots and see starts billions of light years away from us, but we cannot yet connect our body to the earth, from where it came from, we are many times incapable to connect our love for the things we do to the love for our neighbor and our enemy. We can do so much more by just leave the old ways of thinking and doing in the past.

It is important to see the big picture, to discover the Big Bang in the Universe to be able to see how connected we can be in a small picture called human mind.
Like stars are born within a Big Bang, let yourself be created in the same way. Lose your thoughts of who you are to explore the Universe within. Nothing is what it seems, of what we have learned it to be. Question your mind, question the world around you!

“Pope Benedict XVI has denounced some of the gender theories, warning that they blur the distinction between male and female and could thus lead to the "self-destruction" of the human race. He warned against the manipulation that takes place in national and international forums when the term "gender" is altered. "What is often expressed and understood by the term 'gender,' is definitively resolved in the self-emancipation of the human being from creation and the Creator," he warned. "Man wants to create himself, and to decide always and exclusively on his own about what concerns him." The Pontiff said this is man living "against truth, against the creating Spirit".”

-CHRITICING GENDER THEORY (FROMWIKIPEDIA)