If we hadn’t noticed earlier, in some point in the awakening process we realize that we are living in an insane world. Not the natural world, which is beautiful although in many ways merciless, but the human world.
A world where what we are doesn’t notice itself and take itself to be a separate human being. A world where people actually believe their thoughts. A world where people create a great deal of suffering for themselves and others only because they happen to believe crazy thoughts.
So what do we do? How do we live within this insane world?
For me, the answer is the usual one. Go further. Look more closely. Use it as a mirror for yourself.
Examine your thoughts about this insane world. Identify your beliefs about it. See what’s more true for you.
Identify emotional issues triggered by this. Invite in healing for these.
Reorient. See how it is to find love for what is triggered in you around this. See how it is to find love for these people and the suffering they create for themselves.
Learn more about the mechanisms behind this suffering and learn more about trauma and trauma behavior by exploring it in yourself.
Instead of feeling like a victim (which comes from a belief and emotional issues), why not do what you would like to see more of in the world? Why not do something, even if it’s small and local, to support life?
When we see insanity in the world, we see our own insanity. It’s an invitation to go further in our own healing and awakening and bring a little more into the world of what we would like to see in it.
Note: I intentionally wrote the two first paragraphs from the view of someone seeing the world as insane. It’s not so difficult for me since I went through that experience during the first few years after the awakening, and still connect with it now and then.