Possessed by possession?

Possessed by possession, what does it mean? It is meant for certain people and meaningful of others, that’s the beauty of life: all tastes are in nature.

“Possessed” means “obsessed” and it is commonly used for exorcism.

By extension, I used the word “possession” for property, ownership and in the absolute the materialistic world in general: money, High Tech, consumerism basically.

I could say that possession in the sense of consumerism is comparable to the principle of “it is an excellent servant but a bad master”. The problem occurs when it becomes a finality and possesses your mind and heart. “We never own anything except a bit of time” as the wise Asian philosophy says. The house that you have, the car… in one century, in 1,000 years and beyond, will it still be yours?! You will tell me it will be a heritage to your family, maybe 100 years, 200 years and then? Your car in few years, in 50 years will be not fashionable anymore, it will be not updated anymore because we will have new technologies and by the way, with the notion of programmed obsolescence it will not work in few years. Indeed it is not a legend High Tech products have been made not to be eternal but not to work anymore after a certain amount of time. This is not fair but it is a reality.

Dalai Lama said: “What surprised me the most about humanity is Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.”

Sometimes we can think about those we just want always more, for what? For being able to buy a golden coffin?

Actually, we are touching a non-return point or a point high lightening the quadrature of our system: everything is based on growth. Our system, our financial system: our economy is based on debt and growth. Without growth, our system collapses. That’s why all is done for us to over-consume. The hyper-consumption is associated with comfort and pleasure. The marketing created that, with the pyramid of Maslow… I always said until 2004: I do not want a mobile because so far I do not need it and the day I have one I could not manage without it. This is exactly what happened to me and to many people in the world. More and more people do a detox of the electronic device and/or mobile (or social media).

Our system is based on growth but do the trees reach the sky?

The hyperconsumerism sprinkled of the entertainment is the best recipe to make us possessed by possession. This is what it has been called “the Tittytainment”, the fruit of Brzezinski one of the best US presidents adviser. “Tittytainment” is a mix of Tits and entertainment reminding the concept of bread and circus? It creates the brainwashing of mainstream media, a lot of people are in the non-action, just swallowing the news: “following without digesting everything without analyzing the ins and the outs of the situations”.
Aldous Huxley said “The perfect dictatorship would have the appearance of democracy, a prison without walls in which the prisoners would not dream of escape. A system of slavery where, through consumption and entertainment, slaves would love their servitude.”

Uncle Scrooge is the best archetype of the possession of money: he has so much money that he can even not count but he is never happy and is always greedy and upset not to have enough.

“Happiness is not to have what you want but to be satisfied with what you have”

Tityternmaint is a mix of Tits and entertainment but what does it mean? Tits give milk and psychologically milk is linked to being nourished and is linked to emotions, sensations, and love. That’s why a lot of bulimic problems are linked to emotional issues: lack from childhood…

Actually, our modern society created this confusion between happiness and pleasure, mixing both concepts as if they were the same. We have been brainwashed to think money creates happiness.
Pleasure is a momentary feeling bringing a good moment that comes from something external which is quick. It is requiring more, more, more (money, attention, care, fun, power…) like bulimic vicious circle creating dependence, frustration and the need for growth endless… as addiction.

Happiness is an inner harmony which brings outer harmony. This is stability it is sustainable fullness whatever the changes and the events.

It is a feeling of fullness: you feel happy and you are full no more need.

You are in harmony, therefore, all that you do or see is harmonious.

I could do a parallel with food and these two concepts. Feeding with rich ingredients (full of valuable products) to give energy for longer, you do not need to eat so much or too often.

If you eat cotton candies in general, it is good it is sweet but it does not nourish you, it will not give you power. You will reach satiety and punctual satisfaction punctually just for a while and after a couple of hours, you will be hungry again and again. The endless pleasure-seeking society creates the hyperconsumption and feeds itself by “the more of more”. It is a kind of endless bulimic dimension.

Once again I do not say our materialistic society is bad I repeat myself it is a good servant but a bad master. It becomes worse if we only have that as finality and if we do not have a balance of life.

Possessed by possession implied also the notion of property.

Rousseau one of the 4 philosophers of Enlightenment said this brilliant sentence explaining the birth of property: “The first who, having encircled a piece of land ventured to say: This is mine and found people simple enough to believe it was the true founder of civil society.”

Today it is possible to buy islands, during the Greek economic crisis the government thought about selling more. Today it is possible to buy a star. If tomorrow mankind walks on another planet it will become its own one immediately.

The US motto is « In God we trust », and we could say that the worldwide western society motto is “in Gold we trust”. The prophets of this new cult are the advertising agencies…

Property is not bad it can be natural when you observe kids playing with huts, they just want to possess for a while a kind of space-time. But when these old kids always want more and more properties playing unconsciously to monopoly game it is another story.

I think the future of mankind will be the qualitative growth instead of the quantitative growth that’s to say to realize the true values, to reply to the existential questions. To access to this, it is important to start your inner journey with the desire to explore something deeper. There is something definitively higher beyond the sensations, beyond the materialistic largely richer than anything else. According to me, it is the real Holy Grail which is deep inside us what I call the YOUnity, feel the YOUniverse: the Oneness, the harmony: inwards and outer fullness. Once you get that you are the richest one in another world.

As the Sufi proverb says: “What you give is yours forever. What you keep is lost forever.”
Here is also a short story for you to meditate on this important topic: once happen a time, a young man climbed up to the top of the mountain with his rich father who said to him: look one day all will be yours”. Then the young the boy starts to develop anxiety, he was stressed because he was afraid to lose his future richness and to disappoint his father.
Once happen another time, a young man climbed up to the top of the mountain with his poor father who said to him: look, admire, all this beauty is yours forever as long as your eyes can afford to see it”.

Let me tell you’re a true story. One day I was sitting on the grass of a park with my lover on my knees. She was sleeping. I saw a unique little flower. First I admired it and immediately I was pushed to pick it to offer to my lover. Then I just realized with my real eyes, that this flower in front of me was mine as she would have been mine if I would have been picked. But on the night it would have faded and people would have never had the chance to enjoy it the days after. My lover woke up and she saw immediately the flower asking me to pick it up. I told her the story and said to her: in your eyes or in your hands it is the same: if we understand this, sweetheart, we will be always rich and happy.

I think very often to this little flower because she is still blossoming in my mind as a real treasure: it is still shining and enlightening at distance. She is eternal. She has never faded. I realized it was my flower of life and my flower of Light.

Awakening is not only for spirituality: it is to be aware of the Mayas as the Hindus called this phenomenon, the illusions of our materialistic world: the economic system, the ecology, the weapons industry, the food industry… This is not a revolution but an evolution: a peaceful inwards battle to change and improve our civilization if we want it survives.

Without being apocalyptic (“apocalypse” means in Greek: “revelation”), if we continue like this at this rhythm in 30 years (2050) or for the most optimistic scientists in 50 years (2070) life will not possible for us.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery who wrote the little prince said: “We do not inherit the earth from our parents, we borrow it from our children”.

Einstein said wisely: “You can not solve the problems of the present with the same state of mind who created them. ”
I could quote again Einstein with a very existential aspiration as a conclusion or let’s say as a springboard of reflection and further discussion to “innerstand” the notion of ONEness and that we are not ALONE-we are ALL-ONE especially if we want to go further on our human condition:

“The human being is part of a whole that we call the universe, a part that has its limits in time and space. We experience ourselves, with our thoughts, our feelings, our perceptions, as if we are a separate entity and separate from the rest. But this is an optical illusion of consciousness and this illusion becomes our prison. We build a reality in which we include, through our perceptions, our desires, and feelings, only ourselves, the beings and places that are close to us. Our task as human beings is to liberate ourselves from this prison and expand our circle to infinity to include, in love and compassion, all beings, nature and the universe in all its beauty. The true value of a human being is measured by his ability to free himself from his limits and to live the totality, the infinite, unlimited value of Being. If humanity wants to survive, a radically new way of being and thinking is needed. ”

In Shambali, we will cover many existential questions trying to help you to find yourself and to open up the doors of your true self to be released of your cell. Therefore we will help you with different tools to shape your own master key.

Issa ~ AM