Life itself is pretty pointless when it is viewed from the appropriate perspective. Anything one does in life is likewise pointless. That is why spiritual masters say that the best thing one can do with one’s life is to give it away thru one’s work for the world.
As soon as a man is imprisoned for any reason, besides being responsible for maintaining that man’s health (if the jailer is reasonably civilized) the jailer is also karmically bonded to that man. When I think on this, I see the reason why Robert Heinlein wrote in his book Stranger in a Strange Land that the main character, a spiritual superhuman raised on another planet, considered it wrong to imprison anyone (much less turn over anyone to the police).
When we consider the above in regards to why it is wrong to jail a man, it becomes clear why it is erroneous. From the spiritual perspective the very idea of doing anything to harm anyone or otherwise forcibly connect yourself to that person is far beyond asinine because it keeps you “here” forever, frozen in one place as Dante described the lowest and most horrible level of hell. Isn’t jailing a man and thereby being responsible for him just a physical manifestation of the horror just described? Attempting to control anyone, be it a spouse, one’s children, a nation’s population, or a convicted man, is absolutely foolish. It can be likened to being the absolute biggest meddler, busybody and just plain nosy jackass that ever lived.
Imagine, just try to imagine how much effort and trouble one has to go through to take someone into your custody, transport them and lock them up, much less look after them for the duration of their sentence. The whole affair expends such a ridiculous amount of energy that I can’t understand why anyone would ever bother to do it unless they are consumed by fear and hatred at some deep level. Such fear would explain why priests, police, and “watch groups” are propelled by some compulsion to spend great portions of their lives looking for someone who is doing something they don’t like.
As preposterous as it sounds, I see the fear/jailing scenario to be analogous to producing children. If one considers the perspective that life is suffering, and that earth is really a physical hell that one comes to when born, then the idea of producing children becomes wrong, just as wrong as marriage itself, which is then viewed as another manifestation of the lowest level of hell in which one voluntarily bonds oneself to another.
Loving someone so much that you are attached to them is unwise because it keeps one stuck in existence itself forever.
Conversely, hating or fearing someone so much that you are attached to them is unwise because it keeps one stuck in existence itself forever.
Both fear and love produce the same seemingly paradoxical results—imprisonment for the both the feared/fearer as well as the beloved/lover, as the case may be.
Little wonder then that the Wisest ones throughout history have always warned against fearing anything and often lived their lives alone, or otherwise unmarried, quietly observing the world as it goes about it insane activities.
