Understanding war...

People... we have to understand war. Please... we can't continue to live life with the acceptance of war... careful... this doesn't mean we "reject it" either... but let's understand it, and we will see that it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. In that seeing, there will be creative action IN LIFE, it wouldn't require being "against war."

The gross manifestations of war are the movement in consciousness which finds someone thinking that it is "okay to kill" to protect a sense of psychological security or a network of people who share the same sense of psychological security... a sense of control... now...look... don't just say "war is wrong", but please look into the root of war in your self - is the root of conflict understood in you!? is the root of war over inside of you? Is it understood in this very moment?! Is the movement which is: the controller, the sense of "psychological security," the "me I am separate from you" - which is fear - which is ownership - which is struggle .... is it over in you?! Otherwise, though you might never swing a fist, you are directly connected to war - to the perpetuation of every gruesome thing which is taking place in consciousness....

Consciousness is a totally interconnected organism, and the human mind's tendency to fall into a sense of "personality" pulls the mind out of meeting that immaculate tension, and into a downward spiral of destruction based in "personal safety"... "control". The human organism is co-opted into a deluded campaign to attain something which by its very nature cannot exist.

It is fashionable to blame men for the horror of humankind because they are the ones who carry out the most obvious form of murder... but the frightened woman who relies on her social structure or nationality or "family" for a sense of psychological security or safety is participating in murder. Her mind is still caught in personal reaction, which is the very essence of violence and brutality. "Personality" with its attendant fear and dependence upon inner and outer violence is the root of all murder, and personality is a fire in the human mind which knows no gender.

Don't say, "I'm gonna live without personality." You can see that that is just more reaction... more continuation... more time... more "me". Understand the fire of personality through observation... only immediate, choiceless awareness could put out the flames of personality. For if you just look, you will see that awareness itself is free of that sense of "me". And such looking is its own intelligent, creative action.