Tibetan Thangka by Rafael Gomez-http://micamara.es/
The value of all
that you know and all that you've been taught can be quickly be outweighed and
forgot by your belief in and support for manmade national, racial, religious
and cultural institutions. All wars root
themselves in a bed of belief in and support for institutions and in contrast
the hatred for of stigmatization of individuals within varying alternative
institutions. All zealotry and loyalty
begins in the feeling of being involved in an institutional family. People are convinced that they are part of an
institutional family, an institution that presents itself as immortal.
In Tibet and the region
Buddhist lamas are known to reincarnate and return to their monasteries
variously proving they are toddler reincarnates and the Dalai Lama is found
through reincarnation tests. To the
profoundly compassionate Buddhists heritage and family lineage is unimportant
next to the compassionate brotherhood, at the monastery or wherever. Seeking to solve suffering with compassion is
much more important than any other community, more important than your family,
your friends, your neighborhood, your state, your country and whatever institution
you might put before compassion.
The Buddha posited
love and into four parts; love of self, love of others, love for the happiness
of others and love for all beings in equanimity. You cannot love others without love of self
and you cannot love at the higher level unless you love at the level preceding
it. Loving compassion is true wisdom and
the brotherhood of man is the only family one should be loyal to. All else is tribal impulses played by controlling
institutions. The institutional apparatuses
and apparitions which seek to inspire your enlistment are bogus. There is only the brotherhood of man.
You can see the
disturbances caused by people within themselves and outside of themselves when
their love is covered up by beliefs in alternatives to the brotherhood of man. Some people hate themselves, most people hate
other people and many people hate the happiness of others and some people just
hate everything. Loving compassion
elevates all whereas hatred of others, used by institutions, degrades all.
Our love, which
can be equated to childlike innocence, gets covered up by traditions and
training mechanisms, often through instigation of feelings of guilt. We do not lose our love it simply gets
covered up by ignorance. We tend to
think of ignorance as lack of knowledge, however normally ignorance stems from
being full of incorrect ideas and misguided beliefs. Ignorance is usually full not empty. Let go of your pride for your family and
country and whatever institution gained your loyalty and share love for
humanity. Calculate which stage of love
your heart stops at and push forward through the installed ignorance with a flaming
sword of a peaceful warrior.
In Tibet and India
the flaming sword signifies the weapon of the mind, yielded by the heart. The flaming sword cuts through layers of ignorance,
through the training and institutionally supportive traditions layered on us. The flaming sword cuts away the extraneous and
superfluous ignorance preventing us from loving ourselves, others, the
happiness of others all things equally.
Let go of your beliefs and false pride, grab your flaming sword and be a
peaceful warrior. If not now, when? If not for Tibet, then who? Stop make believing.
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