POETRY - PHILOSOPHY


Culture Shock

Gossip, other people’s opinions about different countries, their customs and cultures.
The test of travel perhaps, is the ability to overcome reactions to culture shock
To be able to understand the people and their culture, by being at one with their life as they live it.
Not to be blind to anomalies and contradictions, but to help with the evolution as they need it.
To educate and improve their existence, in harmony with all of the essentials of their lives, habitat and environment.
For us not to react as individuals, to different ways and practices,
Even though, we may rightly perceive them as handicaps.
But to modify and adapt their behaviour, by educating them
As to the possible benefits, to be gained from other practices.
But first we must understand, the causes and roots of our own dissatisfaction,
As manifested in our emotional or mindful reactions, to our evolutionary experience.
So we must clear and eradicate these, before we can look at the true causes left in the mirror-image,
Enabling us to begin our harmonious work of education, adaptation and modification.
But with the added God given experience, gained from our individual trials and tribulations,
Manifested in crisis and lessons, our purification and enlightenment,
Precipitating greater understanding, of the causes of individual and collective karma,
Educating and equipping us, to joyfully help our brothers and sisters.