“From a young age, we learn that the world can be hypocritical. Unhappy with ourselves and our lives, we find fault with everything we or others do. We look for ways to draw attention to ourselves because that’s how worthless we are. On the other hand, if you are honest or try to be honest, you will realize that in this society, where, as Okakura Kakuzo says, “good and truth” are bartered, you are seen as a “fool” or a victim. To avoid feeling like that, you also adopt the “norms” of society, trying to respect its patterns. However, you hide how you feel by resorting to insincerity or false sincerity.

This hypocrisy is present everywhere, but it reaches its highest levels in politics and religion. I refer to them again because they are the institutions that most strongly instil fear and manipulate people. (…)

Those who commit the worst crimes that you may never have thought of are defenders of justice. The biggest liars hide behind titles and honours. Those who destroy the environment become advocates for ecology. The biggest criminals are hidden under the brand of “blue blood” and rights as sovereigns. Among the wealthiest individuals on the planet are often the biggest hypocrites who claim to “save” people from poverty and disease. In their concern for the benefits they bring to humanity, they get rich from the poison that is an ingredient in food, an element of water purification, from medicines and products of questionable quality, in “2+1 free” offers.”

Hypocrisy is at home when we talk about religions and the church. Religions preach love between people, but their adherents curse you, shun you, or ask you to be put aside if you don’t believe what they believe or do what, when, and how they do. Religion? Fanaticism and cruelty, Oliver Sacks calls it, when after admitting his sexual orientation, his mother, a “religious woman”, told him that she wished she had never given birth to him.

A hypocrite is every person who gossips about another by exploring their “sins”. Hypocrisy is at home in our society. We are hypocrites because we do not want to take responsibility for what is happening around us. We are waiting for “someone else” to do it. You throw the paper on the road, but let the cleaner pick it up. You throw garbage into the water, but let those who take care of it collect it”

Hypocritical is every existing law in the states because they are made to chain the one who crushes himself by working, to favour the one who sits in an office and “cuts leaves to the dogs” while counting the money taken from the many. A hypocrite is every man who knows what he knows and prefers to remain silent. He waits for another to do something for him and the rest, although each of us is an “other” for the rest…

Wherever you turn your eyes, you will see hypocrisy. It is present in the family, between parents and children, where the parent says one thing and does another. It is present between siblings, where there is a fierce struggle for inheritance. Whenever you look, it is everywhere and alive, and its greatest power is supported by money and the false power of selfishness.”

(Excerpt From: Manuela Timofte The Garden of Love – Our Inner Wealth)

References:

• Okakura Kakuzo — The Book of Tea
• Oliver Sacks — Gratitude

Love, Manuela

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