Imbalance
The misunderstanding about the nature of psychological suffering is getting in the way of meeting the physical needs of the planet in a balanced way, which is the central issue of physical survival. We will only solve the physical needs of the earth in a balanced way by realising that we have to get to the bottom of why we psychologically suffer and admit it is a result of conditioning of the mind. Meeting basic needs in balance occurs naturally when we are not psychologically suffering, as we can use our faculties well. There is always a solution somehow. It is a practical problem. Needs must be met, but this is always based on the constructive use of mental and physical capacities, never on misusing these. The meeting of needs is always a communal process, so it is bound to be the case that some are more capable than others in certain areas. However, it is in the whole community's interest to ensure they are met for everyone, for the community is a kind of organism; if they are not, this only ends up causing misery, unrest and social extremism.
As meeting needs is a social process involving everyone, we have to realise that the issue of material inequality is masking the underlying problem. Though presented as such, it is not a question of individual capability. This distracts us from the core of it, which is that rich or poor materially, all people have one thing in common. They have, in the main, not resolved the cause of psychological suffering, which is leading to this imbalance in the first place. Materially rich people are not necessarily any more happy than materially poor people. Without resolving the cause of psychological suffering, which is mainly a result of existential fear, not physical survival, there will always be physical suffering of the many by the few, for it is not the lack of material needs that is the fundamental cause of psychological suffering but the failure to realise the nature of our existence and organise them in a balanced way for everyone. When we fail to resolve this existential crisis and realise that the core of psychological suffering lies in identifying ourselves as material objects, we seek to protect our material existence as the basis for our entire happiness in life, which is the cause of material imbalance and poverty. There needs to be more than just materialism, as there is no guiding principle to achieve a balance of instinctual processes. Morality can, at best, moderate this inequality; however, the hunger of the human body and mind is not easily managed. The only way ultimately is to realise our true nature is neither physical nor mental but conscious.
Love
Freyja
