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 naïve at
best. No souls are ever lost, and those that you seek to destroy
and conquer become your children and your mates. Life changes,
but it can never be destroyed. Like the mail it just keeps
coming and coming.
Because humanity has all the attributes of its creator, it has
immediate access to all its qualities. If we are inherently
peaceful, then we can demonstrate if physically by being
peaceful. Peace is only a thought away. It is not demonstrated
en mass but individually and repeated many times on the street.
Peace is as individual as war and is shared with all other
aspects of yourself. One grain of sugar put into a pitcher of
purified water changes the entire volume of water. It is no
longer pure.
If it takes humanity 365 days of fighting, deliberation, and
negotiation to produce one day of peace, if we begin now we can
have 365 days of peace in about 133,255 years. There is evidence
to show that man has inhabited the earth for millions of years
not just the commonly excepted tens of thousands of years. Still
the best we can do so far is one single day.
The only real issue with experiencing peace is that humanity
talks about it. It doesn't demonstrate for peace, but
demonstrates against war. Humanity keeps war alive by being
against it. There would not be one gun shot in the next moment
if all men and women thought only about peace in that moment.
War comes from lack of awareness of the most common connection
to all others, and we are our brother's keeper because we are
our brother. Peace can be found in the middle of a war, while
you are on the edge of death, starvation or torture. Peace comes
when you decide to experience it.
Although there are inequities in the world (haves and
have-nots), peace is still a state of mind that has little to do
with these things. The body has choices always whether to die in
peace or live in war. The body may experience war but the soul
does not.
Humanity now finds itself in the same position it has several
times before. Its technology is advanced enough to wipe out all
life in the world. Conventional warfare is not necessary and a
small bottle of germs can do the trick. There is no safe haven,
because the enemy will always go with you. You cannot kill off
that part of you that desires war and the enemy has a long
memory.
Christmas is a poor time to be thinking about peace. Prayers,
faith, trust and hope are things that do not bring us peace,
they cannot. They all happen in the future, they all deny that
you have peace now and they all take away the personal
responsibility of each and everyone of else to live in peace. We
look to God, Jesus, Ala, Mohamed, the President, parents, fate
or someone else to bring peace, and totally deny the only one
that can do it.
We gave up our power and responsibility for peace when we
turned outward to create it. It happened when we began to
proclaim in our churches, temples, synagogues and halls that we
were unworthy, that we were less than that which created us and
when we denied our connection to that source, others, and our
environment.
If you can demonstrate that what you believe now is bringing
you the level of peace that you desire, there is no reason to
change it. If however you desire more peace then you now have,
you need to change your thoughts. You need to think peace, and
declare that that is what you wish to experience. Demonstrate
peace in your physical life by including it in all things that
you do. Talk the talk and walk the walk. Do not live your peace
for others, but for yourself. Do not wait for others to be
peaceful as you have already been waiting thousands of years.
Never look behind you to see that others are following, you will
trip over yourself. Do not declare yourself as peaceful, but
demonstrate it. Know peace because that is what you desire as
you would war because that is also what you desire.
Do not be shamed or coerced into peace if it is not what you
want, because it will not last. Do not deny yourself, declare
who and what you are, what you stand for, not what you are
against. Do not lie; you are worthy whether you are for peace or
war. War and peace is the same thing, just different ends of the
stick. Peace cannot exist without war and visa versa, but you
have a choice to which one you want to experience. Do not deny
the existence of war or push it away, again, simply choose not
to experience it.
If you are at war, be peaceful in its presence. Lift yourself
up to the position of the silent observer that is another part
of you. You will smile with love and empathy and you look down
on the struggle you have placed yourself in as a researcher
watching a mouse in a maze. After time you will not experience
those earthy events as one thing or the other. You will
understand the connection and life will move more easily for
you. You will not be against anything, but for everything,
because you will understand the purpose for the experience.
You will fall in love with yourself all over again.
About the author:
Roy E. Klienwachter is a resident of British Columbia, Canada. A
student of NLP, ordained minister, New Age Light Worker and
Teacher. Roy has written and published seven ebooks on New Age
wisdom. Roy's books and articles are thought provoking and
designed to empower you to take responsibility for your life and
what you create. His books and articles are written in the
simplicity and eloquence of Zen wisdom.
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