Book: The spirit and reality

Marxism is not a social utopia, it is socially feasible, Marxism is a spiritual utopia. Rationalization of social life does not solve any spiritual issue, spiritual life is not subject to rationalization, she only injured. Attempts to rationalize and regulate the spiritual life will only exacerbate the tragic conflict between the individual and society. The problem of suffering and evil is not only a social problem, although it has a social side. The problem of suffering and evil is a spiritual problem, the problem of spiritual life. Man will not be happier when his life is more settled, his suffering will become thinner and worsen. Happiness cannot be organized. While this world will exist, bliss is impossible.

One might try to come to terms with the injustice and senselessness of falling to its share of suffering. The man has so much to endure, can endure the suffering that he himself seemed unbearable. But the hardest thing to endure is meaningless suffering. The whole being outraged against suffering is needless and intolerable. Too many people on earth believe their suffering is unjust, I do not understand why their share fall to a painful disease, bitter poverty, failure, infidelity, why do they have to suffer more than people who are not better than them, even much worse. The explanation of man's misery by original sin explains nothing, because it is addressed to "common" and not to "private." More happy and successful, at least suffer equally affected by original sin, as unfortunate and who suffer disproportionately. Setting the proportionality between suffering and sin, we become like the comforters of job. It is impossible to rationalize human destiny. This rationalization is forced to consider all fair and, in essence, denies the existence of evil. The challenge for the spiritual life, is not to explain and justify the suffering of life, and to enlighten and spiritually to survive. Carrying the cross means spiritually enlightened experience of suffering. You need to bear the cross of life and to facilitate the carrying of the cross to others, others.

Evil is completely irrational and baseless, it is not determined by sense and reason. You cannot ask what is the cause of evil, because evil begets peace necessary stiffness, in which everything is subject to causal relations. But the evil in his source associated with freedom, and not causality. Oddly enough, but the similarities with the evil spirit. And evil, and the spirit are a sign of freedom, while evil destroys the spirit and freedom. It is true that evil comes not from matter but from spirit. To say that the cause of evil is freedom, and it means to say that evil has no cause. Freedom means, in this case wanton. Only later, in its consequences, evil falls into the power of causality. Evil can be the cause but has no cause. Freedom is the ultimate mystery. Freedom is irrational. It equally gives rise to good and evil, chooses, and creates. It is impossible to develop a rational concept of freedom, any rational definition of killing her. This is what is called a limiting concept (Grenzbegriff). Evil has reasons and bases, it is freedom.

Increasing spirituality overcomes the power of evil over the human soul, enlightens the mind. But the evil remains the most problematic in human existence. Suffering is not identical to evil, but suffering from the evil happens. If there was no suffering in the world, lying in evil, it is likely that there would be a deterioration of consciousness and spirituality increases. Inability to suffering is sometimes the greatest evil. Dostoyevsky said that suffering is the only cause of consciousness.

Every man outside of the vegetable and animal existence, when growing in this consciousness, can not be faced with the question: where did evil and how to take a life if the evil is so great?

Personality is a pain, and the struggle for the realization of the individual is suffering. This struggle for identity involves the victim, but the victim never constitute a waiver of the individual.

Stoic spirituality is reconciliation with the world as it is. Buddhism wants the world faded, dissipated like a Mirage and Ghost. Stoicism thinks the world is ruled by mind, but need to attain the wise indifference to what causes suffering, indifference to death.

Very controversial if you can call Buddhism an atheistic religion. It is rather apophatic form of pantheism, acosmism, not atheism. Buddhism is afraid of suffering and refuses the existence of the human personality, to get rid of suffering. In Buddhism, amazes, and touches potrasenoy human suffering, and he has great compassion not only to people but also to animals, to all living. The greatness of this Buddhism. But Buddhism knows only compassion and knows no love. Buddhism spiritually cold, he does not know the warmth of the human heart. Love is elected, she is exceptional, she is pointing upwards and connected with the mystery of personality. Compassion, mercy, perhaps to all living, downward, to the world of suffering and as if bhoothalingam. Love affirms the being of the human person, argues for eternity. Buddhism also rejects the human person. Personal being ghostly, it creates suffering.

Evil has a twofold manifestation in the world - a dark ill-will of those who crucified and innocent suffering of the crucified. Evil is the cause of injustice, falsehood, suffering and evil is the enduring injustice, unrighteousness and suffering. In this immense difficulty of any attempt of any to understand the action of divine Providence in the world.

Innocent suffering is divine suffering. Innocent and divine suffering is salvation for all human suffering.

Spiritual attitude to the case, which so often depends on the misery of our life, requires recognition of its objective necessity, and the recognition of its objective comprehension of our spiritual activity. The meaning of "accident" in the test of our spiritual strength, he in the subjective, not objective. Objectively in the world life is meaningless, but the spirit is intended to make sense.

Active creative attitude to life the same way and overcomes pessimism and optimism. Human life is full of miseries, not only because it depends on the necessity, the inevitability of the laws of nature, but even more because it depends on the case. The case plays a huge role in human destiny. The happiness and misery of people forced to refer mainly to the case, that is, irrational, not understandable any regularity. Individual "coincidence", which is detected in the case does not know the particular laws by which a person encounters something happy or unhappy.

Spirituality in this world is always associated with the experience of suffering, with the contradictions and conflict in human existence, to standing in front of the life, death, and eternity. Being quite satisfied and happy in this world, insensitive to evil and suffering and not suffering, absolutely astrogical, would not have been spiritual being would not be human. Sensitivity to the evils of the world and the capacity for suffering is one of the signs of human being is spiritual. Man is a being suffering in the world and compassionate, wounded with pity, that's the height of human nature.

Rakhmetov, the hero of the utopian novel Chernyshevsky "What to do?" sleeping on the nails, to accustom themselves to suffering and even to torture. For the revolutionary asceticism of particular interest is the "Catechism of the revolution" Nechayev. Nechaev combines the type of bigot and fanatic, admit immoral and inhuman means, with the characteristics of the hero-ascetic. "The catechism of the revolution" gives the impression of an ascetic treatise of exhortation for the spiritual life of a revolutionary, requiring complete renunciation of the world. It requires that revolutionary not loved the world, anything in the world. The basic principle is the same as in the asceticism associated with mystical and spiritual life. You need to turn away from the world multiple, to sacrifice attachment and refer only to Single, Single to love and to give Him all of his life. This is a Single - revolution. World of multiple, old world recognized solely evil and sinful. The revolutionary is a doomed man. He has no personal interests, Affairs, feelings, attachments, property, not even a name. Everything in it is captured by one exclusive interest, one thought, one passion: revolution. Revolutionary breaks with the civil order and the civilized world, with the morals of this world. He is not a revolutionary, who cares about anything in this world. Penance is one of the revolutionary transformations and deformations of religious austerities.