Being Human – Will We Ever Get There?
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Since hearing Master Dhyan Vimal said about people still being ‘evolving human’, I have not stopped pondering on how we could overcome our obstacles and deformities to reach that phenomenal evolution towards becoming ultimately human.

Based on Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species, we have emerged from the dawn of the hominids, great apes and mammals about 2.5 million years ago in Africa to arrive at our present from, the homo sapiens, 100 centuries ago. Not only our physical form changed, our brain did too, and everything that it affected. Consequently, that included our character, our ideology; the way we feel and think have all drastically changed with evolution. We no longer trade with nature, hunt with spears, wear leaves to cover ourselves and hit people in the head to tell them we love them. While our brains developed speedily with the creation of ways to show love, our hearts changed with a much slower rate.

With the early humans, things are done according to how the individuals felt and nothing was governed by any law. When our hearts began showing developments, negative attitudes emerged and created from the event. Then humans created law that intended to protect the innocent against violence, prejudice and injustice. The first law trilogy, believed to be created during the medieval / renaissance had the same intention, which is to bring peace. However, looking at the development of our present day and the state of peace on earth, one wonders if the intention is really successful. Has law been compromised? Or have evolution taken a bad turn?

Until war is completely eradicated, peace cannot exist. Until violence, prejudice and injustice have been vanquished from our hearts, evolution cannot continue. And we need to evolve to achieve change. A change for the better like past evolution did to our world. However right now, we seemed stuck in a world where violence creates brutality and death, prejudice makes people poor and hungry, and injustice robs innocents of their freedom. And like what Master Vimal observed, we can still eat when we see people beg for food.

In a world where about 10% of its population are at or affected by war, 600 million is at any standard an enormous number. For the rest of us who are not involved, we could actually help in keeping the number from rising by not cultivating attitudes and characters that have led into the creation of war in the first place like greed, selfishness and insensitivity. We must start exercising our human ability to tolerate differences, demonstrate altruism and practice kindness among the people we live with in order to prevent war from developing. We must show sensitivity towards the innocents, the poor and the less fortunate than us because who we are, what we are or where we come from, do not make us any better than anyone else.

In view of the above, the evolution of humankind needs to continue and recommence if we want to see change, restore balance, find peace, AND be the ultimate being. And that has to start right here, right now. The evolution is long overdue. The next step is where every single one of us becomes the ultimate human, where nobody lives is fear, hunger and poverty, where peace and harmony prevail and war is taboo. It would be evolving to a point where the world would actually be a better place.

So being human begins at once, at this point where we are standing now, being the human we are. If we continue living as we are now and allowing the negative attitudes to govern our hearts, we may never see the light of kindness in us and the world in harmony. However, in order to reach that goal, we must ALL evolve together by cultivating kindness and tolerance emotionally, mentally or spiritually. After all, it is THE goal that we hope for everyone to achieve, that is to be The Ultimate Human Being.

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