Change

Is there such a thing as fundamental change? Change that binds us all? Change that is not as impermanent as one built on the shifting sands of politics? Is there a big gear turning the little gears of our social interactions, a mechanism that sparks the fires we attempt to extinguish with our so called revolutionary actions? Since even our most inspired efforts have failed to unite us, would it not benefit us to investigate the existence of such a mechanism? Our public protests, our coalition building, our intellectual debates, our elections and our prayers have failed to create anything but qualified victories, victories for some but not all. Is this really all we are capable of?

Perhaps the revolution that matters is the one that would occur inside rather than outside us. Perhaps we have failed to create peace in the world because we have yet to create peace within ourselves. The world is divided because we are divided. In our minds we are not one, but two. We conceive that there is an I and a world, and from this perceived state of separation we attempt to fix the problems of mankind. But from the outset such a strategy is doomed because it is rooted in delusion. The world is real but the I is not. I is ego, an abstraction, a waking dream. I is the false identity we assume when we become soldiers for our myriad causes,I the liberal, I the conservative, I the intrepid activist. We march into battle unaware that our actions are prompted by a much greater cause: self-preservation. As we raise our fists in support of our political agendas, a larger agenda is being served. Fighting keeps our false identities alive. Win or lose, our egos emerge victorious. 

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