WAR IS A MINDSET
In certain cases, you may need to protect yourself or someone else
from being harmed by another, but beware of making it your mission to
“eradicate evil,” as you are likely to turn into the very thing you
are fighting against.
Fighting unconsciousness will draw you into unconsciousness yourself.
Unconsciousness, dysfunctional egoic behavior, can never be defeated
by attacking it.
Even if you defeat your opponent, the unconsciousness will simply have
moved into you, or the opponent reappears in a new disguise.
Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.
These days you frequently hear the expression “the war against” this
or that, and whenever I hear it, I know that it is condemned to
failure.
There is the war against drugs, the war against crime, the war against
terrorism, the
war against cancer, the war against poverty, and so on.
For example, despite the war against crime and drugs, there has been a
dramatic increase in crime and drugrelated offenses in the past twenty
five years.
The prison population of the United States has gone up from just under
300,000 in 1980 to a staggering 2.1 million in 2004.4
The war against disease has given us, amongst other things,
antibiotics. At first, they were spectacularly successful, seemingly
enabling us to win the war against infectious diseases.
Now many experts agree that the widespread and indiscriminate use of
antibiotics has created a time bomb and that antibioticresistant
strains of bacteria, socalled
super bugs, will in all likelihood bring about a reemergence of those diseases
and possibly epidemics.
According to the Journal of the American Medical Association, medical
treatment is the third leading cause of death after heart disease and
cancer in the United States.
Homeopathy and Chinese medicine are two examples of possible
alternative approaches to disease that do not treat the illness as an
enemy and therefore do not create new diseases.
War is a mindset, and all action that comes out of such a mindset will
either strengthen the enemy, the perceived evil, or, if the war is
won, will create a new enemy, a new evil equal to and often worse than
the one that was defeated.
There is a deep interrelatedness between your state of consciousness
and external reality.
When you are in the grip of a mindset such as “war,” your perceptions
become extremely selective as well as distorted. In other words, you
will see only what you want to see and then misinterpret it.
You can imagine what kind of action comes out of such a delusional
system. Or instead of imagining it, watch the news on TV tonight.
Recognize the ego for what it is: a collective dysfunction, the
insanity of the human mind.
When you recognize it for what it is, you no longer misperceive it as
somebody's identity.
Once you see the ego for what it is, it becomes much easier to remain
nonreactive toward it.
you don't take it personally anymore. there is no complaining,
blaming, accusing, or making wrong.
Nobody is wrong.
It is the ego in someone, that's all.
Compassion arises when you recognize that all are suffering from the
same Sickness of the mind, some more acutely than others.
You do not fuel the drama anymore that is part of all egoic relationships.
What is its fuel? Reactivity.
The ego thrives on it.
-ECKHART TOLLE
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J.Suresh
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Chamiers road - 1st Lane,
Alwarpet,
Chennai - 600018
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