Appreciate that you are a human being
I’m reading a book on enlightenment by the Dalai Lama and in it he writes about the sacredness of all life and the opportunity we have of having been incarnated as human being.
In order to understand the sacredness of each individuals life we have to start with the big bang about thirteen and a half billion years ago. Then we had to have galaxies forming and evolving. Stars had to go super novae so that the heavier elements would be formed.
About five billion years ago our solar system formed out of the products of dead stars forming the planets around it. About three and a half billion years ago life started on earth. Life evolved and about two million or so years ago human like hominids started developing. Some four hundred thousand years ago the first humans lived in Africa and eventually about twenty five thousand years ago our subspecies (Homo sapiens sapiens) started.
History has existed for five thousand years. Modern technology has been around for two hundred years….
So whether this is the only life we have or we reincarnate, it has taken all this time for you to develop and be born. When we look at the universe we notice that most is empty. Mater is very rare. Even so most mater is dark mater which makes normal mater rarer. Most of normal mater is hydrogen (the fuel in stars) or helium (the end result of hydrogen fusion in the stars).
Planetary mater is even rarer. Just looking at our own solar system makes us guess that living mater is exceptionally rare. Now when we look at life on earth we notice that human life is less than one in a trillion.
Knowing this we should appreciate that we are human beings and that our actions (karma ) makes a difference. Statisticaly you would have been born as a single celled being but you weren’t.
You were born as a human being – as William Shakespear says, "The paragon of animals." Understand the opportunities this gives you to live a life of loving kindness and generosity. This also reminds me of Einstein’s statement that human beings exist to serve.
So be loving, be kinder, be more tollerant. Use this great privillage that you are a human being. Respect each other. If you cannot do that respect the spark of divinity in others….
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