The root cause of all suffering is the sense of
separate existence. We have a divisive consciousness
that perceives things as the me and the not me, the mine and
the not mine, as my people and yours, as my nation and
yours. Having divided all things, we feel threatened by
the other. Fear in turn breeds war, conflict, and
further forms of violence.
Are we then beyond
redemption? Are we to remain a bunch of pessimistic
philosophers or apathetic onlookers bemoaning our collective
doom? Not necessarily...
We, as a race, are on
the brink of a colossal transition from one of separation to that
of Oneness. We would awaken from darkness to light,
from untruth to truth. We would realize the oneness of all
living things.
Though each of us may
live different lives, located away from each other in space and
time, we are biologically, emotionally, and spiritually
one.
There is only one
body. What happens to the animals in the seas happens to
us--men and women. What happens to the forests happens to us
in our bodies, since our bodies and the trees are made of the same
earth. Are not our bodies moving clay forms endowed with
intelligence?
A conscientious effort
at healing the earth would manifest as the ultimate healing of our
own bodies.
There is only one
mind. This is the mind that has flowed through our
forefathers, us, and would in turn continue to live through our
children and their progeny.
The collective torment
or fear suffered by our own brethren in one part of the world would
manifest as sleeping or waking nightmares to someone elsewhere in
the world. Our pleasures and pains are interminably
interlinked. We are one and cannot continue to live any
further in an illusion of separation.
There is only one
consciousness. We live in a holographic universe. Every
individual, awakening into Oneness is automatically affecting a few
thousand people, pushing them towards the only sane alternative way
of experiencing reality.
Our experience of
reality, having changed, we would go on to discovering newer ways
of living and loving. We would create a better planet for the
present and the future.
This is our shared
destiny.