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The other reasons for war and peace
The subject of war and peace has always been treated abundantly, in all newspapers, periodicals and media. Let us therefore look at it from another point of view:
It is not easy, but helpful, to neglect valuations and to look at the subject from different points of view. In order to approach the subject, we have to leave behind us the primitive ‚good‘ and ‚bad‘ valuation. We are astonished that people don’t realize that they are always victims, as long as they think in these obsolete patterns. Even the committers feel forced to resist, and as they react, they are victims, as committers act. Peace has often more to do with self-responsibility, openness and tolerance but with love.
God and love don’t seem suitable if you want to achieve peace. We know that this sounds a bit provocative, but let us have a closer look. All wars are made in the name of God, in the name of justice, in the name of truth and in the name of love. There are people who worship God so much that they don’t tolerate another God close to them. There are others who are so blind in their love to their native country, to their partner or to money or power that they are prepared to fight for it. It is hard to understand that priests bless tanks, that politicians claim to fight for their people and their rights ...
Thanks to God, there are esoterically-thinking people! Yes, you have already seen them, in light dresses, always smiling, trying to defy the darkness. They misunderstand the word ‚warriors of light‘ as all warriorsdo. They fight what seems ‚evil‘ and don’t understand that they get unloving themselves. There is one proverb saying, ‚Some people get completely unsupportable on their way to perfection.‘
They wrap in light in order to protect themselves from darkess, they get isolated and believe to be better people. They don’t realize that they commit a sin if they separate from their neighbour. And they always fight against sin. They haven’t realized that the aura can be damaged more easily from the inside than from the outside. They see the evil only with others, like a politician, a soldier or a fanatic does. Then they try to convert them to a better awareness or they avoid them. They feel better than others and try to show, as all the others, that they strive for ‚good‘ aims. On their way they can caught in inner and outer conflicts that are well-hidden. They hide their ‚little wars‘ by means of love, spirituality and faith. Nevertheless they keep on fighting. It is even worse that they fight against themselves, that they are dishonest against themselves and that they project all their own mistakes onto the others, their enemies.
There are always two sided, also for war and peace! The other side of peace is war, as well as the opposite of war is peace. We have to make one further step, in order to stop the game of war or peace. We have to realize that the strive for peace will create war. A real master doesn’t scream against war, but has realized peace within himself and lives in peace with war. Jesus Christ and the other really enlighted persons like Buddha, Mohamed a.s.o. have fought against pharisees and savants more often than against soldiers and toll collectors. They knew why. They knew that the warrior himself is not dangerous, but only the ideologies coming with him. Ideologies are always based on the so-called truth. A lack of love for the neighbour (which means intolerance) leads to attacks by dissenters who always exist and who see their own ideology endangered. The problem lies within the intolerance and the false belief that everybody has to believe in the same truth in order to let peace
emerge.
Peace can’t emerge if everybody believes in the same, but if dissenters are accepted within their hearts in an open and tolerant way.
They strive more to understand the other than to be understood, to love the other than to be loved, to help the other to freedom than to be free, to make the other happy than to be happy themselves. A devoted person is happy if the others are happy, this is the key to wisdom.
As long as people don’t understand that justice and injustice, good and evil belong together, the human race can’t expect peace. If they don’t stop to commit sins by condemning others and thereby separates from the others, they can’t expect to reach ‚paradise‘. How do people come to such a provocative and dangerous point of view? Only if they have seen through themselves. If they have realized that they still make a lot of wars within themselves. There are battles, even if they aren’t fought by materialistic means. So there is war within themselves. This is true for all of us! For our quarrels with neighbours or partners, our rivalries with friends, our competition with authorities, or the quarrels with our children, in the supermarket, in ski-lifts, in the car,
a.s.o.
Like all wars have begun very small, peace begins very small. Very, very small. In our opinion, it doesn’t bring peace if you fight against violence, but if you live your life peacefully.
Before this small inner peace hasn’t been achieved, big wars will happen! It is not a flood that makes a barrel overflow, but one single drop. If you want to make a difference, begin to think peacefully, feel peacefully, act peacefully and be peaceful. You will need more courage than if you make war. Become like peace! If you fight against the evil - even if you fight by esoteric, political or faithful means - you will feed it. As long as you condemn wars, they will exist; if you fight against violence, you will feel it; and if you believe to be right, you will meet injustice.
The old saying is still true:
If nobody went to war, there wouldn’t be
any!
Are there any other reasons today to make war? Of course, the fear from the consequences. It is responsible for the fact that most soldiers prefer fighting to being without job or in prison. Wouldn’t it be good to find out where this fear comes from? It could be the fear from pain, from death. Where does it lead? Of course, it leads to people suffering and dying anyway. But nobody dies more that the one who dies from fear. All the glorious warriors and soldiers are dead when they go to war. They are only killed on the battlefield. This isn’t the worst. The worst is the mental death they have died.
What about you? Have you already died? Do you do or say things that you wouldn’t do or say if you were the richest man in the world? Be honest! Don’t you do a lot of things that you wouldn’t do under different circumstances? Find something! Then you have the possibility to work for you and your fears. Then you can experience your rebirth already on earth. Or do you want to continue trying to change the world and to find out at the end that all your efforts haven’t been fruitful at all? Do you want to continue to pray or to meditate for peace? Do you want to continue to pretend that hiding and meditating can create peace? If that worked, it would have already been done! But what has been really done?
Today more wars than ever before rave on earth. They are are made for reasons of money, power and faith. It may be nice to have money, but it can be fatal to want more and more of it. The same is valid for love, power and God. Those who have got it can share with others, those who haven’t got it will want it from others, and those who have got too much of it risk to be overfilled and poisoned. It is the same for spiritual things. Not the thing itself is dangerous, but the dose makes the differnece.
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