I believe
this attack on the WORLD Trade Center was not only an attack
upon America, it was an attack upon HUMANITY, and a violence
committed upon the
WORLD. A great deal of patriotic flag-waving and bloodlust
is currently being raised by the media and government in our country
at this time. Although I am proud to be an America, I'm even prouder
of being a human.... but in my opinion nationalism, like racism
and religious intolerance, kills.
We must
put an end to these madman who have been using US foreign policies
as a catalyst to manipulate their countrymen into suicidal and murderous
rage and hatred of us. This entails examining who we are and what
we have been doing to cause this pain. A man does not lay down his
own life and murder thousands of innocent people simply because
he's mean and evil.... we would be naive to think so. He will do
this out of a misguided sense of justice, perhaps a hope of changing
things for the better for his family and country, or out of the
utter frustration of a hopeless situation. Then there are the manipulators,
the madmen of charisma and power who would use this pain and rage
for their own means. They can point their fingers at the US and
tell these beaten down people that we are the cause of their pain
and suffering. Let's stop giving these madmen the fuel that powers
their machine of rage and revenge.
If one day you found yourself with more enemies than friends you
could either blame everyone else in the world for being untrustworthy,
stupid jerks or you could look within and examine what it is you
are doing to piss everyone off. This is like any healing... it comes
from within, not in pointing blame at external circumstances and
whining about being a victim but looking within to the root cause.
You could end up living a lonely isolated life of resentment and
fear or you could begin to examine your actions, make amends, clear
up miscommunications and thoughtlessness and live a life of harmony
with both yourself and the world. This is what America must do now,
or the root cause of these attacks will not stop and the madmen
of power will have their way by justifying their attack of us because
of some suffering we have caused in some part of the world.
I've
heard some of our "religious leaders" here in this country
speak with as much intolerance, hatred and judgment as the Taliban
that so many Americans wish to go to war with, both sides pointing
the finger and saying "God hates you because you do not believe
as I do", both sides wishing to limit your freedoms according
to their ego driven notion of God's desires. Know that anyone who
speaks to instill fear, cause separation, judgment and wrath speaks
from ego, not Spirit, and the mindset of a Jerry Falwell is no different
than that of an Osama bin Laden, they both give birth to the self-righteous,
rage driven terrorist (or freedom fighter dependent on the side
you are looking in from). Do not let their actions consume you in
anger, it is anger that empowers them. Reflect upon their intolerance
and self-righteousness and know it is also a darkness within us
all, learn to acknowledge and release it with love and forgiveness,
but stand strong and brave against it's power to seduce. He who
angers you, conquers you.
True
compassion is feeling as the other, when we can see and be our brother,
feel his pain and know his frustration, we will all surely wish
to alleviate his suffering. When my father died, I had the amazing
message given to me in a flash of "knowing", that in death
we find the "immediate and total attainment of compassion."
In an instant our consciousness can see and feel first hand, the
pain or the pleasure we had contributed to the world, to feel the
joy, love, anger, sorrow, pain, or fear we caused our family, friends,
everyone and everything we had touched in the life we had just passed
from. This is our bliss of heaven or our agony of hell dependent
upon how we had lived our life. It is not in punishment, but in
learning and growth. I asked a friend of mine who had first hand
knowledge with 2 near-death experiences and actual remembrances
of the other side, if this was her experience. She said it was a
very close description of what she felt, but that she was not given
total knowledge... for she knew she was going to return (much to
her disappointment at the time, the experience was indescribable).
Perhaps this is how we can create heaven on earth, to develop in
life, a sense of true compassion, to be our brother. This is the
lesson of Oneness.
Love
and Compassionate Light,
Harusami
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