What is Modern Education Lacking?

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What is Modern Education Lacking?

The problem of the human being is, he is given an intellect. An intellect which is capable of many things which no other creature is capable of. Necessary attention has not been paid, necessary time has not been spent as to how to use such a powerful instrument as human intellect. Now, this has become a major problem for human beings. People are coming to me, just everywhere in the world, said, “Guru, how to be peaceful?” They think being peaceful is the highest goal in their life right now. Even the so-called spiritual people are going about talking as if being peaceful is the highest goal in your life. If you wanted to enjoy your lunch, you must be reasonably peaceful, otherwise you cannot even enjoy you lunch. Is that so? Is that so?

Peace is not the Z of life. It’s the A of life. It’s the beginning. If you want to do anything sensibly, you’ve got to be peaceful and joyful. Otherwise, how else do you do it? There is substantial medical and scientific evidence today to show you your body and your mind functions at its best only when you are in a certain state of peacefulness and joyfulness within you. It cannot be disputed anymore, because there is substantial medical evidence to do this. Allowing this system to raise to its highest possible peak, because that’s the only thing a human being can ultimately do, that this can rise, to be able to receive, to be able to perceive things just the way they are.

If you can perceive the whole existence just the way it is, this is considered the ultimate possibility for a human being, because only what you perceive is reality. The rest is just imagination. Isn’t it? Yes, if you want to do anything in this world, you must be able to perceive it the way it is. It is in perception, or being able to see everything just the way it is, is considered the ultimate potential of a human being. What you do out of it, what you don’t do out of it, is up to you. The times of the history will decide that.

Suppose, a thousand years ago, you had an ideal idea. Maybe you just remained with the idea and not done anything about it. Isn’t it? What you do and what you do not do is decided by social and world situations, but your ability to perceive is most important. There is no work in human perception at all in the modern systems of education. We believe they will learn on the way. That’s going to be very distressing and stressful, because today I see successful people are the most stressed out people. It’s a very wrong message that you’re sending to the young people, because if success is suffering, why the heck pursue it?

Right now, if you look at your own lives, you’re largely a psychological case, not an existential case. Yes or no? What you think and feel has become far more important than what is real. Isn’t it so? Yes. Today, morning, sun came up on time. You know this. The planet is spinning perfectly well today. The whole universe is going great. Everything in the cosmos, these billions of galaxies, are all going perfectly well today. You have one nasty thought crawling through your head, and it’s a bad day, isn’t it? You lost perspective as to who you are. You have completely lost perspective as to who you are, because in this vast, cosmic space, this solar system is a spec. In that, planet Earth is a super-spec. In that, Boston is a micro-super-spec. In that, you are a big man. That’s the whole problem. Completely lost perspective of who you are.

See, in your life, whatever you may be doing, whether you’re running a major business or teaching here, or learning here or just hitting a golf ball, it doesn’t matter what you do, but you want to succeed. Yes or no? Small thing or big thing, you want to be successful. Yes or no? Not being successful is the most distressing thing. Even if you just roll up your tissue and want to throw it into the bin, it has to go. Isn’t it? Yes or no? Success is the sweetest thing that can happen to a human being. If you send a message that success is a bad thing, success is suffering, which the world is sending out right now, you just go and see the most successful people, are they a joyful lot? Their only pleasure is they’re better than others, which is sickness. That is not joy. That is not success.

“I am enjoying what other people do not have,” is sickness, isn’t it so? “I enjoy what I have,” that’s okay, but “I enjoy what others do not have,” is a kind of sickness. Right now, most of the success is just being handled like this, simply because we have not paid attention to the most basic ingredient of life, which is myself.

Instead of trying to develop the system, there is another intelligence of a different dimension. You can make yourself capable of accessing that if you maintain the equanimity in your body, in your mind, in your emotion, in your energies. If you maintain an exuberant sense of balance within yourself. If you’re balanced and your dead, you’re peaceful and dead, then it’s no good. If you’re exuberantly alive and you’re balanced, you can access another dimension of intelligence.

We don’t know what life will throw at us. Maybe life will make you an academic, maybe life will make you a businessman, maybe life will make you just a married man. Oh yeah, sometimes it can become a full-time business. Whatever. Life can throw things at you. The important thing is how to be. Isn’t it, how to manage this one?

We want a whole science and technology and there is a science and technology to create external situations. There is a whole science and technology to create inner situations