My role in this adventure that is life

The conclusion that life is a kind of illusion leads us to two possible conclusions.

One of them is this: It doesn't matter what I do, because life is like a dream from which I will wake up.

So, believing in what I live is the biggest nonsense. Rather, I will enjoy it as if it were a lucid dream. That is, a dream in which I know I am dreaming.

But there is another option and it is this: I am trapped in that dream, and I will not wake up until I do what must be done.

I am just another manifestation of Consciousness, but my Self will disappear when I die and I will return to being Consciousness. A Consciousness trapped in this nightmare.

Life is a nightmare because we suffer.

Suffering is something that Consciousness cannot understand, that is why we experience it in such a painful way.

If someone analyzes the moral progress that has taken place up to this moment, he will realize many things.

The first is that, each time, it widens to embrace beings with greater differences.

First it was other races, other sexes, other beliefs, other nationalities. And now we are extending it to new species.

The objective is to reach all beings in existence. If we make a projection, we will see that the end is to include all living beings.

The second thing that will catch our attention is that morality does not advance because it does.

It does so by the impulses of specific individuals, who are faithful to their values.

This leaves us with an unavoidable responsibility. In our hand is the destiny of Consciousness.

We can accept it and do what must be done, or ignore the call.

Suffering is undesirable. There is no need for me to explain it here.

Surely, when someone sees an image of pain on the news, they look away. Surely, few people can watch what happens in a slaughterhouse without being horrified.

It is because suffering is undesirable.

Basically, Consciousness can never naturalize it because suffering is meaningless.

In the state prior to experience, there is no trace of suffering.

And, the goal of morality is to eradicate it completely.

Can suffering be eradicated?

Yes, it can. But it is not simple.

The greatest obstacle we face is the will of those who cause suffering.

A fox does not consider giving up hunting, nor does a spider. Nor does a soldier consider stopping shooting and killing in a war.

They do so because they perceive a hostile world where you kill or you die.

The goal of morality is to create a world where no one feels they must kill to survive.

The goal of morality is to create a world where no one must suffer. A world where no one goes hungry or gets sick.

But that world will not just happen.

It is the will that will bring that world into being. The will is the only thing we possess that no one can take away from us.

Even if there is a part inside us that shouts endlessly that we must survive, it is not telling the truth.

Because it does not know the truth.

Just as in dreaming, we believe that the truth is that dream, in this waking world, we believe that the truth is this.

But if during a dream we were to analyze the evidence, we would realize that minutes before we were in a different world and that can only be a dream.

So, if we analyze what we call reality, we will realize that it does not make sense and that, although we cannot see it, there is a real reality hidden.

It is easier to succumb to the dream and let someone else do what needs to be done.

But no. In the end, someone will have to do it.

Are you a watcher or a doer?