It’s a gorgeous spring morning here just up the road from the University of Maryland where thousands of young men and women will be receiving their college degrees in a couple of weeks and starting life in a world with so much uncertainty. Still, both the beautiful spring weather and the upcoming graduation events show the power of hope.
Where does this hope ultimately come from? My view is that it comes from the invisible wellsprings of life that lie hidden in the unmanifested level of existence behind appearance and form. At the heart of life is an amazingly powerful furnace of vitality. Somehow it bursts forth into galaxies, planets, and living creatures, the astonishing swirl of creation with beings springing forth in endless number.
Then why are so many people so unhappy so much of the time? I know from my own work how easy it would be to create a social and economic system where everyone could be provided for at a reasonable level of decent prosperity. Yet we have laws and systems that allow a handful of people to use the rest as their servants and slaves, and it only seems to be getting worse. The number one mechanism is a monetary system that puts people into debt through the practice of usury, a system that constantly funnels the wealth of the community into the hands of the financial controllers at the top.
It would be so easy to change this system for the better. We could start by paying everyone at least a subsistence income. A huge amount of economic pressure and anxiety would be removed, and the young people graduating from college would have a far greater chance than they do now of getting off to a good start. It would also give us a culture much more based on hope than what we have today where fear of falling into poverty is such a huge factor in the minds of so many people.
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