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\
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