1) About
controlling atmospheric explosions of nuclear weapons. Sit down and cross your
legs for 10 minutes and concentrate on your breathing. Air flows in and air
flows out. You follow your breathing, you don’t think, you don’t feel, you
don’t repeat any peace mantras – they’re just words. Simply place your
awareness on your breath, with eyes closed and your focus uplifted between your
eyebrows. You are not your thoughts, you are not your feelings, you are not a
bunch of words protesting about nuclear weaponry. You sense your breathing, you
may listen to your inner sounds, you may hear outer sounds but you do not
classify or react to them. You are not a protester, a politician, a scientist
or a construction worker. You are not a member of any religion, you have
nothing to argue about with anyone – those are all thoughts that divide us. You
have no feelings to make you react to ideas – human ideas just divide us.
Everything flows naturally. You are at peace with yourself. The state of being
at peace with yourself will help all our sentient beings to find peace in themselves, thanks to you maybe. This is how an individual helps to control atmospheric explosions of
nuclear weapons.
2) About
controlling underground explosions of nuclear weapons. Sit down and cross your
legs for 15 minutes and concentrate on your body. It is sitting on the floor.
You sense your weight. You place your awareness in your face and work downwards,
from the top of your head, going slowly and concentratedly sensing each part of
your body from head to foot. After your shoulders and arms, come back to your
breathing and follow it downwards and relax every part of your body down to
your buttocks. Then follow each leg down to the foot. After this, sense the
whole weight of your body as it rests on the floor. Then sense the floor under
you and the Earth under it. If you are lucky enough to be sitting outside on
the ground, so much the better. Don’t think, don’t feel, don’t repeat any peace
mantras – they’re just words. And we don’t need more words. We need a sensation
of soil, Earth, matter, bodily weight. The weight of a body, a body that will
eventually lose its life and return to the Earth, in the form of dust and ashes, but at
the right time – not when a nuclear explosion goes off. Sense your body, be in
it. Realise its importance for life. The state of being at peace with your body
will help all other sentient beings to find peace because of you. This is how
an individual helps to control underground explosions of nuclear weapons. You
think it sounds silly. But if one person does it, one person is fomenting a
peaceful atmosphere. If a thousand people do it, the benefits are greater. If
10,000 people do it, and create peace within themselves, the world will start
noticing it. If a whole spiritual nation of brothers and sisters numbering one
million do it, the world will change. So it’s not a silly as it may look at
first.
3) About overcoming
divisive nationalistic thinking and becoming a world citizen. This you can do in a
sitting posture, feet flat on the floor. It is an analytical exercise. You are
a human being. You can think. But you must learn to think reasonably, logically
and rationally, taking into account everything necessary that you can get from anywhere
in today’s globalised world and social media. It goes something like this:
a. The Universe as described by science is Infinite, or
at least much larger than we can imagine.
b. Amongst
all the galaxies, the so-called Milky Way is just a tiny speck, although its
stars cover the entire night sky that we can see from Earth.
c. Within
that Milky Way galaxy, we live in a tiny solar system, somewhere out near the
edge, on the 3rd planet from our Sun, which for us is like the centre of the
world and the powerhouse of everything we have around us. Without the Sun,
there would be no life on Earth.
d. Earth
has its percentages of water, soil and air, in similar proportions to our
actual bodies. Life came into being on this planet millions of years ago, and
we humans are new arrivals. Modern man is only about 40,000 years old. Our modern
“historic” world is 2,500 years old. Our technology-based civilisation (petroleum-based) is only about
150 years old. Our great-great grandparents rode horses instead of jumping
in a car.
e. So there’s
a speck in the Universe that’s our galaxy, a much smaller speck that’s our
solar system, an even smaller speck that’s our planet, and you and I are just
infinitesimal specks on a planet with 7.4 billion other specks.
f. Yet from
birth our heads are filled with ideas about OUR OWN IMPORTANCE, our own Sense of
Self and our own Ego, and our personalities are nourished on the importance of concepts like “my
daddy”, “my house”, “my friend”, “my school”, “my town”, “my country”, “my
government”, “my religion”, “my God”, "my feelings...", "my pain...". This evolves into superficial Pavlovian
impulses like “my daddy is better than your daddy”, “my town is nicer than your
town”, “my country needs protection”, “my government is right”, “my God is the
only God worth praying to”, “my ideas are sacred and yours are crap”. Hence division,
anger, hatred and violence, of the deeply-seated, irrational, unconscious kind.
There is no reasoning, there is no perspective if this is not analysed and
controlled.
g. So it’s
time to find your perspective. Analyse your thinking. Review the REAL
situation. Don’t justify anything, don’t make excuses for anything. Go the
whole hog and see what your life situation is like. One person with divisive,
non-inclusive thoughts in 7.4 billion means nothing. But 7.4 billion divisive-thinking
human beings can never live in peace. It’s simply impossible. So inspect,
review, analyse and find out how to be inclusive instead of exclusive. Accept
all, stop fighting over thoughts and ideas. It’s out of all proportion to do
that, and even today’s science gives you enough real information on the
physical so that you can actually feel like a speck if you want, being humble, being accepting, being thankful for being alive, and getting things in a perspective that corresponds more with Reality.
h. Realise
that all divisive thinking, all human concepts, are just something you have heard about and read
about in the past. Thinking is preterite, the past. Analysing thoughts with Self-Awareness, and
applying reason is the present. So, live in the present. And good luck. When
you realise, like Gary Davis did, that you share more things in common with
other human beings than there are differences, you’re already a world
citizen.
4) About adoring Saints. This is egoistic and stupid, if you're just on the receiving end. Saints may inspire you to do something,
but putting up a photo of Mother Teresa in your bedroom is not going to help
the world, although it may make you feel good. What’s the point? Teresa didn’t
sit around wondering when God was going to show himself to her. She just saw
helpless and needy people and went out and tried to comfort them. So to
practise charity, put your hand into your pocket now. How many coins are there?
Ten? OK, take out one tenth of the amount and put it into another pocket. Now take
a walk in the street. You’re sure to see a needy person. Don’t even judge them.
Don’t wonder what they’ll spend it on. Just give him or her a coin. You have
just practised charity for today. Do it again tomorrow. Refine your technique
as you go. You’ll eventually understand. Waiting to get something isn't the path. Giving is.
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