The dualism between us and them has a long history, and it is not quite over yet. But the progress made by dissolving the dualism is much more important than the effects of fighting out the dualism in the old way. It is better for all when Hungary, Poland and other East European countries join NATO, rather than risk war with NATO.
Even in Afghanistan, where NATO actually is waging war, the difficulties of making peace as an effect of the war is discussed.
Between nations, the idea of peaceful cooperation is the normal attitude, but between individuals and local groups the old dualism remains. Young people gather around different football teams and fight the supporters of the other teams. It is almost instinctive.
If we have a mind based world view we naturally include all individuals in our world, and we also include a total self-awareness of our self in our world. We see the good in others and the bad in our self, and not only the bad in others and the good in our self. The differences are seen with tolerance and appreciation.
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Friday, August 21, 2009
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
What is so special? 2
All the suffering and difficulties in the relative reality is proof of the power and specialness of mind. All problems depend on mind.
Hunger and illness are mind problems. Hunger used to be a tremendous problem, and as long as we tried to solve it manually by having a lot of people working in the fields, the effect was meager. Now when the problems have been solved by mind and the work is done by a few specialists and heavy equipment we can get the food we need.
So it is with everything. A lot of progress has taken place the last one hundred years, but many problems remain. One cause for this is that most people must start from the beginning when they are born. Their development can be extremely fast - traversing one million years of history in maybe ten years of life today - but it must be passed and a lot of dangers wait along the way.
We also have lingering problems between nations, religions, languages and other traditions.
If we focus on problems as external, concerning matter or energy, progress will be comparatively slow. If we see all problems where they are - on mind level - we might solve them faster.
Hunger and illness are mind problems. Hunger used to be a tremendous problem, and as long as we tried to solve it manually by having a lot of people working in the fields, the effect was meager. Now when the problems have been solved by mind and the work is done by a few specialists and heavy equipment we can get the food we need.
So it is with everything. A lot of progress has taken place the last one hundred years, but many problems remain. One cause for this is that most people must start from the beginning when they are born. Their development can be extremely fast - traversing one million years of history in maybe ten years of life today - but it must be passed and a lot of dangers wait along the way.
We also have lingering problems between nations, religions, languages and other traditions.
If we focus on problems as external, concerning matter or energy, progress will be comparatively slow. If we see all problems where they are - on mind level - we might solve them faster.
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