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Violence is at the core of our being. We, meaning individuals, you and I, making up the idea of “we”, are each contributors to the madness labeled Society. Each of us are Society.
Violence has its roots in fear. We fear many things most importantly we fear death. Our lives our built on protecting ourselves from the reality of death. We acquire things in order to fulfill emotional addictions based in that fear.
Logically “my” becomes the siren call of the masses built individual by individual.
My nation. My state. My government. My religion. My house. My car. My job. My furniture. My clothes. My pet. My ideas. My philosophies. My spirituality. My desires. My anger. My love. My wife. My boyfriend. My son. My daugther…and the “my’s” continue into eternity.
The ego creates the cushion of the “my” as an illusion that we have attained something. That we mean something. That our lives are worth something. That we’ve made a statement. Death means nothing when the veil of smoke that the ego has created clouds our minds to reality.
WE WILL DIE.
So. What’s the point of acquiring? What’s the point of “my”? What’s the point of protecting what is “ours” whether it be “nation”, “culture”, “religion”, or material possessions? Do you as an individual see how you have contributed to the world’s violence.
It is ever so subtle. It is so fine that only the sharpest minds and the keenest intellect sensitive to conditioning can understand our individual contributions to violence and hate and anger and selfishness.
Only the razor sharp mind willing to give up EVERYTHING is able to see how every aspect of their daily lives creates the violence we struggle so hard to get rid of. We cry “PEACE!, PEACE!” and yet we cannot see our anger towards those that we conceive of as being warmongers. We see the splinter in another’s eye but we fail to see the 2 x 4 in our own. We are so fooled by our arrogance and self-righteousness that we cannot see the court jester hat we wear.
The difference between freedom and enslavement is the understanding of how and when we are being conditioned.
To go deep into our own psyches without judgement or condemnation, without the idea of right or wrong is the only way to see our violent nature. The only way to transcend our violence is to go into it with the energy you would have if your house were burning down. To transcend you must understand and to understand you must have no opinion.
Our fear is to stand naked before ourselves and the world around us. To stand naked with our emotions, our attitudes, our idealogies, our beliefs and our desires. To be so vulnerable that we die to the world.
This fear of losing ourselves to no-thing is so compelling that only genuine courage and love are the doorways to salvation.
If you won’t see the violence within you that you unconsciously enable, why won’t you see it? What are your fears? Are you so happy in a world with possessions and the ownership of fiction that you are willing to sacrifice “heaven on earth” for the sake of a few decades in hell?
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