November 13, 2008
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As-Salaamu Alaikum
“Peace be upon you”
“Holding on to anger
Is like grasping a hot coal
with the intention of throwing it at someone else.
You are the one who gets burned”
-Buddha?
If you look at the world today from space you see a beautiful, living plant
An oasis of life
teaming with harmonious, interacting energy systems.
No matter how closely you look however,
Something that we humans consider so vitally important
is totally absent.
Our planet, when seen as it truly is,
has no boundaries drawn on it’s surface/
The truth is there for all to see:
no-thing natural
separates the people of the earth
from living as one …
yet
make no mistake here
Lines drawn by blood
Written in the sands of time
National boundaries have become the reality that divides us.
Is there any truth to these boundaries?
We have chosen to do this out of ignorance
During our biological evolution
we were extremely successful as a species because we evolved a mindset able to control time.
It was an extremely useful adaptation that quickly allowed us to rise to the top of the food chain.
For instance, growing crops requires planning for the future, and ownership of the land.
But the ability to control time became something that ended up controlling us.
It separated us from the present moment.
We lost touch with present moment reality to such an extent that the past and future became
more important than the present.
This is a total reversal of the Truth.
Deeply lost in the fearful egoic mindset, we made the choice long ago…
to live divided
politically, religiously, ethically, ideologically,
and most significantly, separated by nationalism.
Over the centuries. and by the misguided authority of our freewill
Nationalism has gained such momentum and power
that its very existence has become the instrument
which prevents us from experiencing
that which so many of us desire above all things:
A world of harmony, fellowship and love.
A world living in peace.
But nationalism, religious intolerance, racism, hatred, bigotry, selfishness, pride and indifference
are not the problems ..they are only symptoms.
The symptoms of a condition that so many of us have, that we can no longer even see it.
What we have lost sight of is
Truth itself.
That word over the ages has lost all meaning to us…
yet despite all our blindness
our spirits hold it fast to our hearts
and we yearn so much to know the truth.
Ironically it is the temporality of our own minds which blinds us from seeing it.
Let the chatter in your mind be silent for a moment …
relax and take a few calming breaths
close your eyes for second and just breathe…
Now listen to the sounds you hear…
open your eyes
what you see and here now…
Is the only Truth!
The Truth is everything that is happening now, everywhere
in this moment…
“And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
this is powerful statement of momentary consciousness
Not an easy thing for the mind to grasp
for if you stop to think about an event that just happened
the truth you just experienced dissolves into a pale shadow of reality.
The event exists now only in the past as a memory.
It’s not the truth any more, it’s a model of the truth.
If you were presently conscious
during the experience your model of it might serve as a sign post
useful for pointing back to the event
…but your memory can never be the actual momentary reality
just as a map is not the territory it represent.
It is curious how in a court of law you might be asked to swear on a holy book
to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth…
I dread the day they would ever ask this of me for I would surely be headed to jail.
There would be no way I could swear to such ignorant garbage.
Look at the world we have made for ourselves
Can you open your eyes and see the truth of what we have become?
For if we can learn do that
Together we can find the path to peace e\
Comments (12)
I agree. And that is why I started this.
I found this LINK one day. Kind of gives an overview of things we fight against, and perhaps, in the end, some glimmer of hope?
Peace be unto you as well~
The LINK does not appear to work. I shall try this again: HERE
love the anger quote. it’s soooo true!
anger is like drano if you drink it on purpose or by accident it has the same effect “justified “anger is the same energy of course most every angry human feels justified i have thought lately it is a personal translating into a global refusal to try & understand one another’s cultures we are not all the same & trying to make us so is crazy & renders bad results it will take an event of unparalled porportion to even get the “world’s” attention to bring them into the moment but of course with CNN etc reporting “real time” it could happen in our lifetime good to read you again Dosmangoes blessings beck
omg i heard the beegees in the silence lol
ps that album Darkside of The Moon seems tobe popping up a lot lately
Thank you!
…and, Yes!
BE blessed.
~Steve :sunny:
in reply to your little comment of me ripping a hole in my paper,
it wasnt me, it was sean.
AND IF IT WAS SO FUNNY THEN WHYD YOU GET ALL PISSY
and what! i hardly ever talk! it’s just in your class i finally have someone to talk to for once, so i just sit around and talk.
“GEZZZZ”
i think you put a “s” on my paper today, but i forgot what for.
i was thinking about ripping that one up but naahhhh, he’s already mad, lol.
BUT YOU SHOULD TOTALLY BLOG ABOUT YOUR OPINION ON THAT PSYCOPATH (spelling?) THINGY.
that’d be awesome.
Yep I agree
@Hello_Roger -
the S was for SHHH-ing haha
and you should also blog about how lame excuses for being an idiot and spraying water everywhere when “trying to get a calculator” and dimethyltryptaminezz yo
@donshobbins -
OH YEAH, HUH.
ahah, my bad. and yes, the calculator thing was stupid
blog it out, bro.
BLOG IT OUT.
Thank you for this reminder…as I consider the two pictures of Earth….I am drawn to the first one…the photo of Earth from space….I think this is the one which is naturally real for us. Placing my attention there helps me release myself from the mindset that defines myself within the structure of the collective egoic world we have created here…with the boundaries, identifications with groups and concepts…those are such habits of mind….When I picture myself on that planet with its swirling clouds….I can sense myself relaxing…breathing. Identifying with Earth herself…as one of her tiny creations…in with the animals…the water…and the crystals…definitely feels better…still identification…but easier on the soul.
This shift is easy to do…actually…and this kind of writing helps remind us to do so…why cling to the other version of Earth…the map with the boundaries….it is so complicated….but better than the pristine perfection that Earth intended in her self creation?….probably not. She is alive…as we can see in the photograph from space…the maps have no life…they bring us closer to a dead energy…and worse as you point out.