Your society, the environment in which you have been inserted for years, for centuries, leads you and forces you, in a certain sense, to adopt behaviors in your way of being that certainly cannot be defined close to the ideals of spiritual teaching.
In fact, it is clear that your society, in interpersonal relationships between individuals, forces you to behave inhypocrisy, to behaviors of falsehood, to behaviors basically of non-sincerity.
Society is made up of a considerable number of individuals, individuals different from each other, with different characteristics but, above all, with different needs. And it was therefore logical that, at a certain point, there were very specific laws (social laws, of course) that dictated a line of behavior that could be adaptable to everyone even if, I repeat, the individuals who make up this society are numerous and very different from each other.
In society, for example, fashions, fashions of behavior, fashions even more simply of dressing, fashions of clothing are born. Thus it happens to people who have a certain aesthetic sense of seeing individuals who have reached a certain age in front of each other, dressed in particular clothes typical of young people. So it happens to see that I know io… A sixty-year-old dressed in a pair of tight-fitting trousers and an Australian-style jacket, perhaps, which is so fashionable in this period; and finally, it happens that no one has the courage to tell that person that, dressed like that, dressed like that, it's more ridiculous than serious.
Even if the saying "the dress does not make the monk" is actually true and even if the way of dressing is part of the exterior and, therefore, certainly does not represent what lies within the individual and does not manifest the essence same as that individual, it is also true that the individual who has a certain evolution, who is aware of his role, his place and what he has to do at that moment, he will never try to behave or manifest himself in a way other than that in which he really is.
But I don't want to analyze the reasons that push the sixty-year-old to dress in that way, as the psychological reasons that push him to this behavior can be many and different from individual to individual. Instead I want to focus on the fact that none of the people (or at least almost none) dares to say anything directly to that man. It is easier, in fact, that, perhaps, two people who walk arm in arm along a promenade and meet such a guy, do not say anything directly to that individual, but have fun with each other making fun of him, ridiculing his way of dressing.
This is a situation that I think has happened to all of you more or less, and it is further proof of your hypocrisy, of your inability to be truly sincere towards others but, above all, towards yourself.
Why did I say towards yourself? Because, in my humble opinion, it very often happens that the reactions of hilarity, the reactions of fun for a particular, or strange, or funny outfit, arise precisely from an inability to recognize that, after all, one would like to be able to be able to do the same.
In fact fashion, dear ones, the so different ways that are proposed by fashion thinkers, by all that crowd of people who are dedicated to this type of thing, are not so ends in themselves but these individuals who design, who do. the clothes that will belong to the man or woman of the 90s or 2000s, that's all to get in touch with what are the thought-forms that the sum of individuals can project into the astral world.
So it happens that stylists, when they design their models, do nothing but put into practice, highlight, to express something that belongs to a community, to a set of thoughts that has formed, has become fixed on the astral world.
It is clear, however, that the fact that not all people are attracted to these forms of clothing essentially depends on evolution, so that the individual will remain involved because that type of clothing, that type of "look", as is usual. say now, it will respond to inner needs.
However, it will happen that there will be the little evolved individual, maybe I know, a forty-year-old, who despite being attracted to that type of clothing that responds - as we have said - to certain needs, to certain particular and inner needs, will not have the courage to show himself in public dressed in that particular way since he will consider it anachronistic in relation to the chronological age he is carrying; however it will be precisely this type of individual who, in meeting the sixty-year-old dressed in the Australian style, will try or throw at him, silently, mottos, jokes.
Well, this is the classic individual who is not sincere, and above all, he cannot find the way to have the sincerity towards himself, as it is much better - all in all - the XNUMX year old dressed in the Australian style, but aware of what he is doing, rather than the guy who dresses classically but in his heart would like to have his hair cut in a crew cut, starched with those chemicals that are so fashionable at the moment, and so on. Vito
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Read, welcomed. Some statements I have to ponder a little and perhaps require some clarification
I consider the issue of sincerity towards ourselves to be of vital importance. Many times I have had to realize how much I lied to myself and often it was the physical body that unmasked me with clearly evident symbols. The lack of sincerity is very often unconscious and the mirror of life is there, at our disposal, to show us our ambiguity, through the relationship, the conflict, the events that impact on us. This mirror, if we do not persist in turning away, in order not to see and recognize our hypocrisy, constantly forces us to deal with the fallacy of the ideas we have about ourselves and others.
This is why it is very important that what we learn on a mental level descends into the bowels of our being, because over time the mind becomes sophisticated, capable of exploiting for its own use and consumption concepts such as love, freedom, compassion ... and lie, shamelessly, is masked with words of truth.