I think I'd much rather say that we wouldn't have to teach quite as much to "convince" children they were selfless. If we can convince them that all the stress associated with constantly compeating with your environment is worth it, we can certainly convince them that their environment (their womb, nature, eternity) is intimately related to them and that they are in no way separate from it. that doesn't mean we tell them to walk around blindly and let happen to them whatever the world wills; on the contrary, it means we promote the natural development of deeper sensory and emotive awareness. we teach a lot of "facts" these days, but hardly any feelings. if we learned to feel the world, we would get by a lot more comfortably than we are now trying to think it. and i don't mean returning to primal instinct; i mean "primal instinct" cannot be distinguished from "spiritual intuition" until we aknowledge that information arives into and is created out of the universe as it passes through our nervous systems. at every step of the way, it is always energy, always transforming through time, away from the past and towards the future, all the time "directed" by eternity, which is the encompassing mystery always outrunning the horizons of our sight. eternity (or god, or spirit, or the transcendent, or meaning, or truth, or goodness, or beauty, or love) is always before and behind the "mind" or "self" that exists between past and future in the so-called "now." but that "now" would ...
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