We Were Poorly Educated

A few days ago I read a reflection of the Dalai Lama where he sadly criticized our educational system. Basically He claimed that 100% of our education was dedicated to impart materialistic concepts and nothing, or almost nothing, was dedicated to the spirit.

That's something I already knew for a long time, but seeing it so well-articulated by the Tibetan monk shot several of my neurons and I decided to write about that.

I have written before that Quantum Mechanics has shown how thought affects reality. I have also already said that reality is not such. Time and space are parts of the same mantle. Matter is nothing more than concentration of energy. These are facts difficult to understand, but proven many times. However, one thing we cannot ignore is that for each of us, only exists what we can perceive, what enters through our thinking and is embodied in our consciousness. Let's forget for a moment about the subconscious and the unconscious realms since they also exist because we discovered them and make them real. If we were not aware of it, we would not know about them.

99% of our fears never realized. We live with unrealizable fears. That not only produces a terrible unhappiness but an unforgivable waste of time and energy. We are always so distracted thinking about unreal things that life escapes us without really knowing how to enjoy it.

It is in the evening of our lives when we actually begin to think about these things. For a number of reasons. Perhaps our restlessness gets settle down and our biological functions diminish. I do not know what is cause and effect here, but it happens without any doubt. Nevertheless, what most determines this gradual change is increasing knowledge and experience. I say this knowing that we not all of us learn the equally from our past events. Therefore, all of us reach different degrees of "immaturity".

Personally my life is full of wonderful experiences that, when they have not confused me, they have left a great knowledge. Obviously, I did not always have the ability to take advantage of all what I learned and, inevitably expose myself to the vagaries of my terrible stupidity.

I cannot blame anyone for all this. Not even myself. After all, I never received the education necessary to be a better individual. The whole educational system that I went through focused on making me a better individual adapting to an almost unreal society. What a waste of time and resources. I reached levels of mathematics that I never used, I learned enzymatic functions that did not help me, historical events irrelevant and distorted by politicians, failed economic concepts widely recognized as useless. At the end I lost my time and the money of my parents and from my community.

The worst thing is that I am now an accomplice of all those facts. This is the same system and I force my children to go through. That is very difficult. I do not know what to do with these ideas by myself. Nor can I expose my children to be misfits of this imposed unreality. But maybe you can help me and at the same time help yourself while helping those who will come later.

How they could know how? Beginning to think in the right direction. Since thought affects reality, let's take advantage of that tremendous changing energy for a better world to germinate.

Let us avoid thinking negatively. Let's focus on ourselves. Let's forget what others have and enjoy our own abundance. Let's practice our own faith without turning to criticize that of others. Let's do good in every act, no matter how irrelevant it may seem. Let us love ourselves by forgiving the unconsciousness that has dominated us up to now. Let's love life and everything it gives us, including those around us. Understand that your enemy does not know you. It will be what is supposed to be but with our internal peace and acceptance. And more important than nothing: Teach your children little by little to understand, to eliminate the unreality of their souls. That will make their souls invulnerable. If you are an atheist, simply change the word soul by the word mind.