The Spiritual Basis of The Republican Ideology

[Leonardo17]

How long does one have to meditate for to directly experience this Reality?

There is no clear cut formula. I’ve heard that in some place they created meditation groups that guarantee spiritual enlightenment when members abide to a given set of rules and meditate for a given set hours. As far as I know, this is not really how it works.
 

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+ I did not deny the philosophical nature of these principles. The person who first told me about the philosophical principles that are the basis of republican ideology was my high school philosophy teacher (not the Imam of my neighborhood and not any new-age book or anything like that)
 
Yet, I think there is more depth to what I am saying. The issue of the world is mainly an ego issue. If you look at colonialism for instance, 90 % of the indigenous population in North-America (10% of the global population were simply erased from the map. And this is not some “issue of the past”. The Sami population of Sweden (the indigenous inhabitants of the northernmost parts of Sweden) are also being forced to abandon their way of life in the name of “development” and “short term economic interests”.
 
So when somebody creates a new nation and says in the founding documents of that nation something like:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
 
I will agree with the fact that this is a very idealistic approach. But it’s also deeply revolutionary, and because of that (I think) it’s also highly spiritual as well.
 
Because it doesn’t say that “All people of European origin (except Jews, east- European, Italians and Irish) have the right to freedom, liberty, pursuit of happiness and equality. It says “All human being have these rights, and these rights are unalienable and therefore all man have these rights”.
 
Yesterday I was watching how 7000 migrants had arrived (mostly from sub-Saharan Africa) to the Italian island of Lampedusa within 24 hours.  
 
One the Statue of Liberty on Liberty Island there is the saying:
 
“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” This country's greatness and true genius lies in its diversity.”
 
So That’s the exact opposite of “Build walls, build minefields, sink those migrant boats if you have to, capture them and put them back in the Sahara desert, torture them, Exort money from their families, kill them and sell their organs to the highest bidder or ship them back to countries like Rwanda, create floating hotels for them, separate them from their children etc.”
 
(And I am not alluding to anything. In north African countries, that’s what they do with these migrants. In my country, Belisarius is getting cash for keeping some 5 million of them here (mostly in miserable conditions) and he is getting money from the EU for doing that).
 
And Marriane Williamson has a great book called “The Politics of Love”. She says that a fraction of the military budget of the industrialized nations are being used to “avoid despair” in several parts of the world. And If there was more foreign aid (like the Marshall plan after WWII) this would avoid the creation of rogue nations + organizations like ISIL in a far more efficient ways than nuclear bombs and aircraft carriers. So again: Revolutionary approach
 
And that’s what true spirituality does. I am not talking about religious bigots and dogmatic / unscientific approached that are “ordering” people to behave in a given way. No, this is more like inspiration. Like a deeper understanding of “be good to your neighbors”.
 
So I, personally, see a parallel with those philosophical principles. Therefore, I want this Wedjat, to be on top of our Pyramid. Not money, not short term interest, not dogmatism, not self-awarding approaches, not this or that ideology, Not even values, definitely not the “capitalism on steroid” we have today. Not a richest 1% having more cash than the poorest 50%, not any of that, but a deeper understanding life that is reminding us that there are things that are bigger than all of that. And if we can’t do that, well, the prospects are not so good for any of us who are willing to keep inhabiting this planet.
 

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