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Understanding Violence, Aggression, Inhumanity and War
by Brian Thompson.
All events and experiences that we perceive in ourselves and in the world are appearances within consciousness—our true Self—which is empty of any ability to suffer on its own, regardless of what appears within it.
Nothing that appears within consciousness can harm or affect consciousness, as consciousness alone is absolute.
It is beyond birth and death, it is timeless—and we are each, that. This is our true Self nature. We each share this one Universal Self, which is the very same suchness that animates every being in its apparent existence.
Everything that we feel and experience within our bodies certainly appears to be real, but it is not absolute—they are merely temporary illusions within our eternal and all-pervading true nature of consciousness.
To understand this is to realize that what happens in the world and to our apparent selves is not the final truth. It’s just another dream within the infinite dance of consciousness (our Self).
While all people die, their essence—their Self—forever lives on. Their Self is our Self. There is only one.
This realization exposes all appearances as impermanent manifestations—which includes all apparent things, animals, plants, minerals and people. So no matter how real or tangible an appearance might seem to us, it remains a momentary movement of perception within our presence of consciousness—no matter if it’s a leaf falling from a tree, an airplane flying through the sky, a woman dancing in the rain, or even our family and friends that we hold so dear.
Outside of our intimate presence of awareness however, no appearance has any independent existence of its own, for they are each made in consciousness, by consciousness, of consciousness—which is our Self.
And so it is then seen that all apparent people, places things share the same Self. There is nothing other than the Self. At all times, we only experience our Self.
With that being said, it is important to remember that no appearance (or, perception) is as it appears. This is why it’s often said in the teachings of non-duality that all things are an illusion.
However… this doesn’t make what sometimes happens to us any less horrible.
We feel things, and those feelings are very real—regardless of what caused them.
When it comes to the violence, hatred and aggression that we perceive in the world, or any other deed that is being done for that matter, it must be realized that the person or thing who is seemingly the apparent perpetrator, is not actually at any fault whatsoever.
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Source: http://www.phoenixisrisen.co.uk/?p=10651
