In the human matrix, the human mind, there seems to be a lot of war, a lot of fighting, for and against various mental fabrications.
Fighting war, war against terror, war against drugs. Fighting for freedom, fighting for peace, fighting for any kind of rights. Fighting cancer, fighting climate change, fighting inequality. Endless combat.
No matter the position, for or against: the human mind appears like a huge fight club, a battlefield of mental fabrications.
It seems that the mind can never just be with what is, as it is what is: always striving for and to be more, better. It’s obsessed with judging and the idea of changing and optimizing. And although change is the very nature of all there is, it runs in hamster wheels and rat races.
In a dualistic paradigm war and peace are entangled. Actually, there’s no beginning of war and no end of peace. Also, peace does not begin when the war ends.
Life is shapeshifting on a spectrum between apparent birth and death, in which (life) forms arise, and disappear. It is dynamic and impermanent.
Human understanding of the “laws of their universe” is so focused on analyzing that is often blind to the overall interconnectedness and seamlessness. This perspective and interpretation leads to more and more fragmentation. Through this lens e.g. the invention and development of nuclear fission seems much more consistent than nuclear fusion.
Fragmentation in a culture brings a lot of alienation with it. A brain that processes and interprets its perceptions through the lens of objectification and identification creates imaginary landscapes and entities, that are profoundly separated from each other. It builds races and nations, me and you and the others, affiliations and exclusivity, belonging and exclusion, confederates and enemies.
In such exclusive mindscapes, those who seem to be “the other”, different, foreign, unfamiliar, and unknown, can easily appear as a threat. Especially when they also claim for their separated parts of the imaginary territory, their territories of “right” against “wrong”, “good” versus “evil”, and “mine”.
While organic life and intelligence are the epitome of interconnectedness and interdependence, the creatures and creations fabricated by the objectifying brain seem to seek and conquer the imaginary tops of their fictional worlds and build their isolated homes and fortresses on a ground without foundation. In their futile conquest of sandcastles, they attack and defend phantoms.
In the organic, manifested world, decay is inherent to life. Through the “shadow world of the mind”, it can express through war, raw.
Eventually, peace will not be found in the end of war, in the end of decline, as there is no beginning and end of either.
A peace that is liberated from dualistic principles might appear when it dawns that “war” is a fabricated concept of the mind, based on the perception of separation, and its identification. And that interconnectedness and entanglement work even through apparent division.
“To know your enemy you must become your enemy.” Sun Tzu
