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There is no war but class war
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by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News
July 27, 2006
If the world seems to become ever more confusing in light of current
events, might I suggest a simple meditation: There is no war but
class war.
All war is only one war that manifests out of the division of people,
one against the other, by means of trickery and illusion for the mis-perceived benefit of uninvolved others. There is no them to make
war against. There is only an us. All else is destructive
illusion.
Insecurity comes from accepting the
belief that there are others who threaten our security. It is impossible to win security by the destruction of others. It is impossible to make war on those who merely seek to
incite war for their own benefit. There are only others driven by the symmetrical illusion that someone else is a
threat. People driven to madness by this illusion are best dealt
with compassionately and with an effective minimum of force.
Compassion is the source of creativity that will allow us to move
outside this sphere of illusion of threat and actually secure the
safest outcome. Not some ideal absolute perfect outcome — suffering
will be endured — - but the best possible outcome. The antidote to war
is love informed by realistic fear.
Please do not make the conditioned mistake that entices us to swerve
off the path of truth at this point by refusing to believe in
danger. The lion's teeth are sharp and to be avoided. Nothing is
gained and much is lost by being tricked into believing that damage
inflicted on us by the forces that seek to divide and subdue can be
ignored. Quite the contrary, vigilance is a necessary aspect of
compassion. It serves no-one to allow oneself to be pulled to one's
death by the grip of a panicked drowning victim. Foolishness merely
adds to the weight of aggregate suffering. As that great teacher is
reported to have said, "Be as gentle as a dove and as wise as a
serpent."
Contemplation of the mantra "There is no war but class war" may, I
hope at least for some, open the way to the fundamental insight that
all suffering, all violence, all ecological destruction, all
ugliness, all needless death and destruction — all of history, for that
matter — is merely an unfolding fractal equation of the desire of
some, mired as they are in ignorance, to dominate and exploit others
by means of violence and threats of violence, in order to seek an
illusory vision of their own safety.
Indeed the creation of artificial divisions is the one all-encompassing source of pain at every level of society right down to
the suffering present in our personal lives. Reality is fractal. The
iteration of division is the function of this destructive fractal
equation — division between humans and the rest of the natural
world, division between the sexes, division within the self between
the naturally complementary influences of fear and love.
Of all the destructive divisions that make us helpless in the face of
violence, it is the last one that is the first and the most
powerful. If we can be induced to separate fear from love in our
perception of reality, we become immediately unconscious and
helpless and thus feed the ignorant desire for domination in those
who would exploit our vulnerability.
We must stop feeding the beast
with our bodies and spirit. We must become strong by becoming
whole. We must learn to become unpalatable prey for the predator by
virtue of being whole. The alternative to war is a stronger peace.
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Fear and love are like the two eyes of God.
Each by
itself provides a coherent picture of reality, but without the depth
of parallax that extracts meaning.
When fear is separated from love, or love from fear,
there is no depth to the world.
The world becomes a two dimensional
shadow play, a gross and distracting illusion of apparent
contradictions.
We cease to see clearly when we attend to either
fear or love independently.
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We become weak and attractive prey, once we begin to see things as
separate opposites. Our minds are disabled, unable to accurately
assess reality, and therefore defenseless before the dark force that
seeks always to enslave. If people are able to love their fears, to
see love and fear as part of a seamless whole that defines the self
as actor in the world, and thereby remain calm in the face of threat,
then the path to freeing the mind opens. The joy inherent in the
experience of loving compassion changes our perception in such a
powerful way that the threats that once intimidated us, and the
people that author those threats, become objects of pity and thereby loose
their power over us.
In the light of loving compassion for ourselves and all we
encounter, a great abundance erupts. The enticements of the system
of domination, the material goods, the illusions of supremacy, the
false offers of escape from fear and loss to be gained by joining in
the system of oppression, all the illusory rewards and punishments
that we have been conditioned to respond to, suddenly lose substance
and reveal themselves as sad games played by the ignorant — who are
more to be pitied than feared, more to sidestepped than confronted.
It is very possible that, if a sufficient number of people fail to
wake to this reality, there will be an end to this world. Nothing is
guaranteed. Everything lies in the balance. Nothing is more
important than that people free themselves from their disembodied,
illusory fears so as to be able to face real threats with poise and
confidence.
Fear and pain are nothing more than the beam of light that seeks to
guide our steps on the path. They have no meaning outside of love.
They have no function but to guide love in its work in the perfection
of creation.
Fear and love are like the two eyes of God. Each by
itself provides a coherent picture of reality, but without the depth
of parallax that extracts meaning. When fear is separated from love, or love from fear,
there is no depth to the world. The world becomes a two dimensional
shadow play, a gross and distracting illusion of apparent
contradictions. We cease to see clearly when we attend to either
fear or love independently.
Implicit in the advice to love one's enemy is the reality of
enemies. We become our own enemy when we confront external enemies
with fear divorced from love. Face it, Dick Cheney and his ilk are
some of the sickest creatures on the planet. They seek their own
destruction along with the destruction of the rest of us — of all
life for that matter. What could be more lame?
The Bohemian Grove event that is occurring this week is a freak show
of unparalleled grotesqueness. The participants are what we would
become, were we sufficiently ensnared in the supremacist web of
illusion. They need to be stopped, certainly. However, they will
not be stopped by trying to destroy them. No, they feed and grow strong
on fear and violence. If they are to be stopped it will be by the
force of love calling their enthralled servants away from them.
There is a lot of work to be done.
Love fearfully and fear lovingly. Be whole. Make whole. By joining
together, as whole persons, we can overcome the forces of darkness in
our selves and in our societies and claim the abundance that is our
birthright. There is no other path.
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