The Bloody Revolution of the Soul, Vol 2

It is really interesting to me that a good number of the comments in response to my blogs have been about how what I ask for of people is too difficult, too challenging, or too dangerous.

If you have any interest at all in exploring yourself, learning about yourself, finding your own freedom or happiness, you could you possibly be worried that the process is hard? Of course it's hard! About the most difficult thing you can do in this life. To figure out yourself, when no one gives you time and the sea of opinion is pulling in the opposite direction?

But who ever said life was supposed to be easy? Enjoyable, blissful, wonderful, all this stuff, absolutely, but easy? A cow's life is easy. You walk slow, you chew grass, you shit, you mate, you die. If you're lucky enough to not live in one of those corrals.
But humans? Sorry, but the lot we have given ourselves is the struggle to understand ourselves. To make things easy, to ignore this struggle, is to ignore what defines us as humans. We are aware of ourselves, we know the difference between what does and doesn't make us happy, and we have the ability to figure this out.
Ignorance is not true bliss, it is the equivalent bliss to a drug-induced coma. But bliss that comes from knowledge, understood bliss, well that's a whole other thing. What could be better than saying, "I have understood what true happiness is for me, and I have gone out and gotten it."

And I'm not saying that everyone should just forget everything that they're doing and go out on the road to learn themselves. Everyone has constraints in their lives, and these constraints determine the places in which we have freedom to move. Maybe you can go on a vision quest for a while- good for you. Maybe you can just spend a few hours a week to sort yourself out. What you do is not what matters, trying to figure this out is what matters.

This is the real purpose, the real question of life. So yes, it is a struggle. It is the struggle. It is why Buddha sat for 30 days under a tree, not eating or drinking. It is why Jesus wandered the desert for his 30 days. If you want to get to a further place of understanding yourself, it will take effort. It's just the most worthwhile effort you can take.