Starfire Thinks having been established, here we can return to what seems to be the most important issues at hand. Reaching a state of peace and understanding in this life, and helping that to be reached on in the planet we live on. This is the mission, this is worth talking about.
The nexus of world conflict is that in the so-called Holy Lands of the Middle-East, the approximate location of the ancient Mesopotamian civilisations and around the original land of 'Eden'. Despite repeated attempts to bring peace through holy messengers there, we are even now in a position in which their messages are being used for separation and conflict- there is little honesty as to the fact that we are as our hearts are and the veil of religion is no excuse for hypocrisy.
The answer is quite clear- crafty politics, emotional manipulations aside, what is needed is a real, loving acceptance of one another, an embracing of common humanity and also of differences inherent in being human. Central to this is the Arab-Israeli/ Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a microcosm of the sea of misunderstanding between the West and the 'Near-East'. The little states there have to move on from their nationalistic aims and think of working together, or they will forever be a figure of fun to the rest of the world, that watches them in a shocked, horrified but nevertheless fascinated way as embodying the very worst example of a region unable to adjust to today's multicultural world.
That region is generally seen as a home to religious hypocrisy and negative emotion. I will go further and say that the people are simply lying not only to one another, but actually to themselves. They are holding back their natural, loving feelings because they think it 'unmanly', in their patriarchal system, in which honour, revenge and the law of survival looms so high. To change from this backwards and terrible misconception is not something that can be done unilaterally. It is not even something that this important region can do alone. It necessitates a wide reassessment and evolution of the masculine-centered world-view that pits the strong against the weak, with no mind for the consequences.
We need to all do this in our own lives. the evolution of the whole race begins in it's members. We have to put aside our addiction to bullying and revenge and speak out against it. We need to push for the acceptance of many different types of persons, all along the lines of 'if they hurt no-one by doing something, let them be free to live their lives as they choose'. However, those that are causing pain or hurt, whether by negligence or intent need to change their ways.
Whoever you are and wherever you are, you need to help balance the world by bringing back a feminine understanding of the need to accept others, along with a masculine urge to build and progress. We are not calling for some kind of soppy, purely feeling-based way of being- we all have a responsibility to better ourselves and those around us. What we are speaking for is a feeling-based way of doing this, a warm and caring way, one which is consistent with our true natures.
As the Dao De Ching teaches, virtue comes when we stop talking about morals. We need to do, to be, not just to talk- for just talking is the way of hypocrisy. As Jesus taught, the spirit behind the law is what matters and not just it's letter. As I say here, being true to our feelings means reaching beyond the influences that try to make us negative-feeling, which is actually an inversion of feeling and a lack of it.
Feeling is life and life feeling. Riches, victories, are a feeling of mutual gain, or shared happiness. This is a dream we all share and we need to set aside whatever is in us that blocks it's fruition.
To these goals and to the aim of the Middle-East embodying them as the spiritual teachers sent there have ever hoped, we must work tirelessly, with endless joy. To this we must commit, as does the work of The Foundation, a fountain-spring of unchanging truth, an umbrella to the needy now as ever before.
Amen.
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