Why continue to pretend?

One of the most direct and fastest routes to get to the truth of this reality we all share, is to observe its relative nature.

Einstein famously dug it up. Energy is matter moving really fast, matter is energy moving really slow. E=MC2.

Nothing, including you and me, is either this or that. Everything just is. 

A true study of any relativity will always guide you to this and to the present moment, where there are no relativities (separations).

The subject has been been covered a bit here, here, and here.

Perhaps the ultimate relativity to observe is the one existing between you and other.

Between subject and object. Between observer and observed.

Typically one is seen as existing totally separate from the other.

Entire societies are based off this misunderstanding. Wars have been waged. Poverty allowed.

If every thing is everything, then we know you are in other and other is in you.

Consider your most precious possessions, things dear to your heart that you would grab in the event of a fire.

Can you not see some aspect of yourself embodied in the object? And some aspect of the object embodied in you?

That can be an entry point to the understanding.

It carries through to everything else.

To you and every human being.

Every creation in nature.

Even every inanimate object.

Just as we can find the past in the future and future in the past, good in evil and evil in good, we find the subject in the object and the object in the subject—every time.

This understanding dismisses the illusion of separation.

Which puts the human ego in the crosshairs (the very reason the ego defends its position of individuality, even with a gun).

It's both.

You are you and you are also the other.

What happens when you're happy, others will be happy around you—and vice versa.

Ever notice how laughter is contagious?

How a mother knows what her child wants, the split second the child does?

The understanding should result in love.

In compassion.

If you are me and I am you, then we are one.

Your welfare is my welfare.

But we already know that.

Then the question is: why don't we practice it?

Why continue to pretend?

They want you to believe in change

Now, maybe more than ever, people—especially in their youth—are getting inspired to create social change or change the world in some way.

To solve poverty. Fix government. Save the environment. Better the economy. Etc.

It is a noble intention.

Typically what is not understood (and rightly so) is that so many of these problems are deliberately manufactured. Manufactured in the sense that those who are behind them, actually want them in place. They serve a purpose.

It's so hard to believe that it's easy to dismiss as being the truth.

If you take a look at the coordination of world affairs, you can't help but stand in awe at the sheer genius of it. The brilliance.

Do you think world leaders are so incompetent that they can't solve basic problems, such as making sure food is available for free to every human being going hungry?

That's not an option.

The truth is: they don't want to.

We have to start accepting this, especially if we are interested in change because the understanding alters our approach to it dramatically.

If I'm a world leader, I want you believing in change within my systems because that keeps you from really working at the problem at hand (my intentions and plans).

You'll waste your time and effort and life trying to create a change that will never happen. I'll let you make a little progress here and there to hide my intentions and inspire future generations to follow your path and finished your unfinished work.

But I will never let you solve the problem.

I don't want you to. I won't let you.

This is the attitude that you don't realize is there.

Just take a look at what happens to people who step up and create real movements of social change—they get killed or imprisoned and have throughout the centuries.

What every person interested in change needs to understand is this.

There is no hope in change.

There is only hope in letting go of every...single...system in place. Every one.

Banding together.

And creating new systems.

The thing is, this thought is too scary for most, the thought of cutting dependence.

But it is the only way.

"The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

The deep practice of silence

Silence is much more than just not emitting words from your mouth.

Silence is a destination within, an oasis, a refreshing well.

Like buried treasure, it is hard to find for most—impossible for others. Once found though, it becomes easier to locate again.

When you do reach there, you become immediately aware of the split inside.

On the one side, you can perceive and feel a deep stillness, a calm, an expansive nothingness.

On the other, the thoughts, the analyzing, the thinking.

As soon as you think about a thought—even just one, ‘Oh! I have to pay that bill, it’s late’—you have moved into doing and personal effort.

You have broken the silence, left the parking lot and are now back on the me and my highway

For those in a later stage, it will feel unpleasant to do so. As if you have split off from the flow and set out to sail on your own.

This silent place inside is the ultimate destination and the practice is to abide in it. It takes some will power at first and, of course, a choice.

You have to know better than not to leave it.