Thursday, March 23, 2006

What borders you?

To develop ourselves in life, we have to cross borders. Not only geographical or physical borders, but also the borders of our mind.
Sometimes we are not even aware of our borders. We (unconsciously) take our world for granted.
So think about your borders. Do they help you in your development or do they bother you and are they an obstruction?

In other words:

What borders you?


Borders in our mind
When we get conscious of our boundaries, and want to get rid of them, our first reaction is that we want to change the borders themselves. In order to grow we think we have to change the outside situation, our environment, our friends.
But in most cases the best solution to grow is not to fight the borders, but to transform yourself.

Overcoming Real Borders
Now let's expand this way of thinking to the real big borders in society.
Take for example the Berlin Wall.



To tear down this wall, a single personal transformation of an individual human being is not enough.
To achieve this, the transformation of many people is necessary, including the so called 'leaders of the pack'.
Such transformations take time and can only be achieved by collective faith.

Compare the falling of the Berlin Wall with the destruction of the walls of Jericho.


Jericho: Hebrews 11:30-31

By faith the walls of Jericho fell, after the people had marched around them for seven days.


The theory behind it is that not the sound of the trumpets (shofars) destroyed the walls, but the low frequency and monotone vibrations (pulses, sum of individual sound waves) caused by the monotone stomping of the feet of the crowd, produced enough power (amplitude) to achieve this.
This could only be achieved if every member of the crowd had enough faith (to believe this result could be achieved) and therefore the discipline to act in one way.

How to change things
When we try to change a situation we have to deal with the next situations

Balanced
Unbalanced
Stable
Unchangeable
e.g. Universal Love
Hard to change
e.g. Fall Berlin Wall
Unstable
Easy to change
e.g. melting of ice
Chaotic
e.g. weather


Now it becomes clear why in some situations it takes time to realize changes while in other situations a change appears after a single small action.



In a chaotic situation, first try to stabilize the situation and find a new balance

If we want to change situations like destructing the Berlin Wall, the first thing we need is acceptance. Acceptance of the fact that you as an individual (at first) are not able to breakdown this wall.

Only after this step faith can be created that this wall can be destroyed. Not by a direct individual breakdown, but by a well tuned set of collective actions 'around' this wall. Collective faith, concentration and repeating monotone actions will "vibe" the wall down, using the simple universal forces.

Learn to recognize situations that are stable, but not in balance. Use faith to get them balanced.

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