Taking sides will always cause division. I'm not saying this is a bad thing or a good thing, it's just a thing. When will we learn to not take sides?

submitted by EpsteinIsHung from self.whatever

By taking sides, we also create imaginary advisories that wouldn't exist otherwise. Take fundies for example, they feel like they are being persecuted and that the world is their enemy, because they've literally just created such mental constructs that became realities for us.

If someone is liberal, how are their life better now that they "oppose" trump and support movements like BLM?

If someone is right leaning independent, how is their life better by "opposing" BLM or other movements that SJWs force down their throats?

If someone is actually woke and know what the nature of reality is like, how is their life better by ridiculing trans community and the mistakes that guys are making by chopping off their dicks and by opposing them?

The point is that we create imaginary enemies for ourselves, so that we can feel justified defending our position. But defending it from who? We can't defend ourselves unless we have the imaginary opposities.

People, are not our enemies. People are our brothers and sisters regardless if we can understand them or not. People can also be puppets, but puppets rarely are aware that they are puppets just like someone who is asleep, is very unlikely to realize that they are sleeping.

As long as we continue taking sides, the Cabal buttpirates are going to win. There is no winning sides, because they create both the status quo, the opposition, and pretty much everything else we see too. The only way to make their shitty ship sink, is by just being and accepting the self, and by doing so, accepting the world.

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[–]StillLessons 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

This message has been taught for 2500 years. Unfortunately, few are open to hear it. In each generation, those who live in peace within our environment, regardless of the surroundings and those surrounding us, represent a constant light. These non-friction-creating ones may be a light in darkness, but one beautiful part is that this light has never gone out entirely. All we can do is light the area of our direct interactions. Even this small act is remarkably powerful.

Free From All Opinion, Teachings of the Buddha, Jack Kornfield (Shambhala Publications: Boston, 1993), p. 116:

"This I do now declare, after investigation there is nothing among all doctrines that such a one as I would embrace. Seeing misery in philosophical views, without adopting any of them, searching for truth, I discovered 'inward peace.'

Not by any philosophical opinion, not by tradition, not by knowledge, not by virtue and holy works can anyone say that purity exists; nor by absence of philosophical opinion, by absence of tradition, by absence of knowledge, by absence of virtue and holy works either; having abandoned these without adopting anything else, let one, calm and independent, not desire any resting place.

One who thinks oneself equal to others, or superior, or inferior, for that reason disputes; but one who is unmoved under those three conditions, for that person the notions 'equal,' 'superior,' and 'inferior' do not exist.

The sage for whom the notions 'equal' and 'unequal' do not exist, would he say, 'This is true'? Or with whom should he dispute, saying 'This is false'? With whom should he enter into dispute?

An accomplished person does not by a philosophical view or by thinking become arrogant, for he is not of that sort; not by holy works, nor by tradition is he led, he is not led into any of the resting places of the mind.

For one who is free from views there are no ties, for one who is delivered by understanding there are no follies; but those who grasp after views and philosophical opinions, they wander about in the world annoying people."

[–]EpsteinIsHung[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

For one who is free from views there are no ties, for one who is delivered by understanding there are no follies; but those who grasp after views and philosophical opinions, they wander about in the world annoying people."

That right there is it. When we form an attachment towards something, it almost becomes a leash of sorts that we forget even exists. To be free from ones mind and ties, means that they can just be. Just exist. Say "I am", and nothing else needs to be said.

Connections are different from attachments. Being connected is having without possessing. Existing without being attached.

We'll continue to wonder as long as it takes to learn the lesson of just accepting ourselves as we are. And to remember who we actually are. We are still living in the external world hoping for it to satisfy us because that's what we've been told our entire lives. But we are finally realizing what a load of bullshit that is, and how there's no winning when we play by the rules that other people have set for us. We can only win when we become Neo and see the matrix for what it is, and how we are the rulers of it.

[–]TokLwdSaNthg 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function." - F. Scott Fitzgerald