Peace on Earth in another 365 Days
For three hundred and sixty four days, one third of the world's
population that is Christian talks of peace. And for one day of
the year they manage to experience it...
If the youngest and largest single group of the three major
religions can manage to manifest one day of peace each year,
surely it could be a model for other religions to follow. All
groups talk of peace, but Christians for the most part have
managed to celebrate one day each year in peace. But even this
is superficial. As one cruises the highways, parking lots,
shopping malls and homes, two days before Christmas, you can see
that the roots of war are still there. Christmas is just a rest
from war and not really a day of peace.
If humanity was inherently peaceful, would we not have peace
after thousands of years of trying to find it? Are we hitting
ourselves over the head with the same hammer, trying to manifest
a result, by doing the same things that do not bring us to the
peace that we say we want to experience?
Life is a process, not an end unto itself. Man cannot find
peace on earth, but only moments of peace experienced
individually, in the silence between the cannon fire. The
ideology of obtaining peace is more desirable than actually
achieving peace. Once peace has been achieved it will not be
experienced as peace any longer and the thought of war will be
desired once again, as humanity reaches out to find the peace it
already has.
In the history of mankind, peaceful people have sought to
expand their peace through the act of war. And maybe that is
because they have truly not known peace. If the world was ready
for peace it would be demonstrated in the homes, on the roads,
parking lots and shopping malls.
Peace is who we are inherently; we come from peace so why do we
not demonstrate it? To know peace you have to come back to it.
You must know non-peace before you can know peace.
War starts in the home and is pushed out into the streets and
into the battle fields. This comes from an inherently hostile or
primitive people that still believe it is separated from its
enemies. Humanity still does not know or believe that it can
only wage war on itself because there is no other, and your
enemy is in complete agreement with you. When you face your
enemy you are looking into a mirror. It is your own right hand
striking you in the face.
War will always continue until humanity changes its mind about
war. It is a learning curve coupled with insanity. If what you
are doing does not bring you what you desire, why would you do
it? How insane is that? Unless you have discovered the reason
for not wanting peace, you will always turn to war.
War is simply a thought manifested into physical reality and
demonstrated on our streets. It immerges from our own thoughts
as the final way to demonstrate our own frustration over not
getting what we desire. It is a face-off of egos demonstrating
lack of reason. It demonstrates immaturity of the individual and
discontent for self, not of an imagined enemy.
The only enemy that humanity has is a single individual. One
faces off with a mirrored image of self demonstrating a strong
desire to beat some sense into the part of self that is
rejected. Your enemy is your rejected self, the part of you that
you do not wish to deal with. That part of you that will not
listen to your reason. That part of you which knows there is
another way.
Mankind has traditionally believed that once you kill your
enemy, he/she disappears forever. This thinking is na