it doesn't matter what the situation looks like, each one of us can and must be clear about one thing: REaction to the situation is conflict, and only if reaction is understood at its very root is there the possibility of action in regard to the situation.
Most of us are living our lives in a perpetual state of reaction... i don't know if you see this. Life demands the action of a fresh mind, of a mind free to give rise to new and accurate relations, but our minds are anchored in a sense of the personal and so there is reaction, born to protect that attachment. And as the personal ALWAYS has its roots in the past, in memory, it cannot ever give rise to a truthful, creative solution. That movement of the personal with its beliefs, traditions, habits and preferences is memory attempting to be reality... the past attempting to be the present. So, there is no use in vowing, "I will not react," for the very root of reaction, is the phenomenon of personality and time... the "I WILL do something". You can see that such movement, the movement of this "me" thing is already REactive. The truth of this is shining in the very fact of what life is showing. It doesn't require a belief - any believer goes against what we are seeing here... look and see... this isn't a theory... it is inherent in what life is showing... it is see-able - factual. In seeing the truth of this, not living in that world where "you agree with me" or "disagree with me", but actually seeing the truth of what is happening, what's left?
Being clear about this one thing would mean that the mind is in its situation... that the mind IS the situation, and there is the clear seeing that any movement as "me", as "I'm gonna or not gonna," constitutes reaction. What's there then? Look and see... There is a certain sort of crisis isn't there? Isn't there something going on IN the crisis? Wouldn't this be the crisis of a new world being born? of a truthful life being lived?
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