World Peace

Some friends were having a discussion about whether or not world peace was a possibility. In the end they all decided that it was perhaps an impossibility. The consensus was generally that the differences in religion and culture prohibited agreement on many issues that would be necessary for achieving a permanent lasting peace.

Why is it that we always think of peace as something that another has to accomplish either through international diplomacy or organizational agreement and conformity? Does not the true reality of peace start with the individual? All organizations have an agenda to promote. True peace cannot be an agenda that is the concept of a few to enforce upon the many. Organizations always promote through fear. Peace and fear cannot exist in the same room together. So true peace starts with each individual. The truth of it cannot be an organizational plan with political aims that seek to enforce a will. The concept of peace can be manipulated through organizational stipulation that ultimately leads to the accumulation of wealth and power. Wealth, power and influence are the true aims of all organizational elements, not peace. Though organizations may have high sounding goals that seem to have peace as their primary goal, the true nature of the mind that wants to organize is rife with self promotion and self aggrandizement.

Only the individual can realize the truth of peace that is not the result of goal orientation. Goal orientation is at the heart of the conflict of position and opposition. When one seeks to posit blame and responsibility then peace goes out the window. Peace is the responsibility of each individual, but it can never be realized as long as a person finds fault in the moment and is unable to accept the truth of what is. When all else is not (all that you think you are and want to believe about yourself), then peace is. In other words when the self is not then peace is a possibility. For it is the self that cannot accept the peace of the moment which is the actual reality of ones conflicted mind. When thought ceases to live in the illusion of seeking the concept of peace, and instead realizes its self as the only barrier to peace, then something quite enlightening happens. One sees for the first time that peace is what is and that nothing in the reality of the absolute moment has to be done to create peace, because ones doing is the problem. All a person has to do is to stop refusing peace and simply start living it from moment to moment. Living peace in the moment means that a person is no longer affected by the personal baggage that one has carried around all ones life. It means that you stop seeking to blame the other for your own insecurities and inadequacies, but instead realize a release that is blameless. To live in peace means that you accept the other. One must give peace to the world so that one can live in peace. It is of no consequence what others think or practice, what is important is that you share the peace within. The world is in peace all you have to do is accept it and allow it. If you understand the depth of this statement then it is the beginning of world peace which is the peace within.

Peace is the natural outcome a mind that has realized that its conclusions and prejudices are the result of a conditioned consciousness. Freedom is the outcome of the negation of the minds preoccupation with "what should be" (its conditioning). Peace is the outcome of that freedom. They are in the reality of the absolute moment one in the same.