FOR SOME, ITS CONNECTING

I might be prompted to think questions from a curious person about something esoteric or artful were a reflection of something known already. Familiar in a way. What ever our start point, there is room for growth.  Whether priviledged or perceived privelege there is no one able to escape conscience, or questioning whether their life represents anything of merit to the world.  I think we know money doesn't buy happiness. Celebrity is isolating. Privilege for those with it, is still a distortion. We can recall the early life of the Buddha, protected from the unpleasantness of real life and the education he discovered when he witnessed hunger and degradation before he found enlightenment.  But if one is struggling to get bye and provide or faces hunger and sleeping rough, it is survival.   It is not difficult for men with a moral core to understand. We are born with it, an emptiness.  Most of us learn from mistakes. Some learn to lie to survive, not knowing the price. Do we look to rank and fortune or power to find character?  At some point, we realize we cannot go on blaming our struggles on circumstance overwhich we have no control. It is our lot in life to make whatever we can with what we have. The assumption of responsibility is where judgement matures.  Education has been a vehicle for change for people who have lived without.  Why does the young mother work two jobs, attends classes and raises her son best she can?  Why do entire families pool their resources to put the children into the best schools?  Why does a mother and father want a better life for their child? Education is about freedom. Education is about living a longer life with fewer diseases and illnesses. For women, and minorities, it is about fighting for equality.  And on that spectrum, for hundreds of years, masonry has been introducing men to higher level thinking. Not any man but a man who values learning.