Forgive the Error
It is often said that to be human means to live and experience everything to its fullest potential—to be able to think and to feel every emotion. Hence, if one is unable to experience, think, or feel something, then one is less of a human than another who is able to do all that abundantly. Regardless of whether one was born with different mental or physical conditions. Labels like unhuman, abnormal, alien, robot, zombie, or dead are some of the labels thrown at such persons.
If you reflect upon it, it is rather ridiculous. That humans pride themselves on a sense of superiority, as compared to other living beings such as animals and plants, by flaunting the inherent natural attributes of the mind and body. Whether or not one is aware of 'experience' being the domain of the mind, it is already happening. The 'me' or self is very much redundant in the natural process of conditionality. Yet, it is the centre of all experiences, where seemingly every happening revolves around it. It all becomes 'my life.' Weird, isn't it?
This is the error that is ignored in every moment of life, which ironically makes us human. As Alexander Pope said, "To err is human; to forgive, divine." If we do not wake up to the erroneous ways we are relating the mind bodily processes as 'me, mine or myself,' our whole life will be a huge mistake, in that we will suffer the detrimental consequences of it unendingly. The spiritual path—divinity—is nothing more than to forgive or let go of the insanity that makes us human. We shall aim higher to be in spirit instead.
Realising the profundity of the path, teachings, and wisdom of the enlightened ones, is the discovery that transcends one beyond everything that was believed in and held onto as the truth. True happiness is the peace of recognising what we truly are, which has yet to be revealed. So, what are you waiting for? Being human is good, but being spirit is divine. Walk this journey with me at WISE and together we can transform our lives and those of others for the only true purpose—the end of all errors.
In light,
Khan Hui Yee
2 July 2024