Friday 20 August 2010

The Conflict Within Between Preservation and Change

What we are taught represents the outcomes of numerous conflicts within the minds of those who teach us. What we teach represents the outcomes of conflicts within our own minds.

Many of the so-called conclusions we arrive at are premature.

We present our ideas and conclusions as though they were conflict free and we had peace of mind in their presentation. Yet, reality is more complex. It is a collection of numerous forces in opposition to each other harboured within systems that engineer resolutions to conflicts.

Some people maintain the conflict longer before arriving at conclusions because they are more aware of the delicate balance of forces moving in conflict, like so many winds whirling in different directions.

Overcoming the constant wars within our own minds and worlds is in our nature for whether we accept it or not, we are the outcomes ourselves of vast and powerful energies moving in opposite directions. Our creation, our conception was the result of conflicting forces. That we exist at all is such an enormous mystery in the constant motion of forces moving this way and that.

I remember just sitting silently trying to conjure up an image of how much energy it took for me to raise a finger. The amount is staggering. It is enormous because it is the outcome of absolutely monstrous amounts of energy in conflict. I may not recognize this fact because time itself is a product of conflict energies in which the forward arrow of time represents outcomes of staggering billions of conflicts.

We have the impression of time moving forward when the reality is not that there is progression, but that there is an outcome of conflicting forces moving in very different directions. We can not even begin to imagine what these directions are. Whatever our understanding is so much a result of conflicts that we are subjected to misinterpretation.

Will ye no think kindly on those who would be your friends! May the sun shine with your thoughts, today, and happiness grow in your heart! May you allow yourself some peace of mind.

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