Tradition
This word is at the same time strange and yet quite ordinary to the human ear. Some misuse it, others repeat it mindlessly. Figuratively speaking, today our actions related to the notion of tradition form an emptiness filled with false methods used for maintaining the living environment, which has long been blown away.
Consciousness has long ceased to identify personal involvement with the actions one does. Thus it has been displaced by overlapping information forms that periodically direct man towards filling himself with meaning. Consciousness is not whole and there’s no movement or effort without wholeness.
As a result, Man is filled with elements born by his own imagination, i.e. some temporary substances, invented by him or the collective consciousness. Tradition is not related to mechanical and formal actions but involves by definition discipline and ritual. And this places responsibility on the one who has chosen to follow tradition, so he or she has to invest efforts and time in performing his daily routines. Following the objectives of tradition each and every day is the only guarantee for strengthening and developing one’s mentality, and this is what defines the basic characteristics of tradition.
To what extent can man agree with a tradition and what can he do to achieve this? Tradition should not be made up of secondary activities and should not even assume such a possibility. Tradition is not a repetition or a declaration, it’s rather a question of constant striving for perfection through ways that not only nourish man’s spirit but also fill him up with a special meaning. In the current state of society, when more than 50% of men are in a state of intellectual atrophy, tradition is impossible.
Tradition is linked to the universe yet if space is void of meaning, then this tradition falls apart. As a result, a false mentality is created that displaces tradition and people get locked in small tight circles and meaningless activities. This incompatibility is so obvious that all one has to do is raise one’s head and look around. However, the ability to see things is not a given. First of all, there’s nothing to see, and secondly, people are incapable of seeing. Thus man forms an opinion or depends on opinions that have become a widely accepted insanity, and whoever decides to leave this false circle, withdraws from the game and loses the friendship of all the fools and know-nothings around him, and bears all the ensuing consequences.
As long as people are divided not according to their knowledge or abilities, but with respect to their status and lineage, tradition will be possible only within the narrow bounds of the family. As long as people do not appreciate intellectual work and cannot recognize value, all they can do is suppress and destroy them. And nothing can be done until all these people die together with their actions. This is the necessary condition for regenerating space. The only thing that can be done in this case is to stimulate space in its ignorance so that it can burn up with all its ignorant inhabitants.
Every tradition is an ascending order and as long as a descending order exists, it has to be taken down to the very bottom.
20 july 2010
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