LET'S TALK ABOUT PEACE

Let’s talk about peace and how to create it, for nothing in this world is due to chance. If we want to modify the external reality, we must at first comprehend what originates it, so to act on the causes instead of on the effects as it usually happens. The world is a reflection and not a cause, it’s the reflection of each of our own consciousness and we can find it if we put attention to  the link which exists between our own visible world and the internal invisible one; we’ll find that what is on the outside is in strict harmony to what is within us. We will understand that our internal activity, both mental and of feelings, always affects the circumstances that we observe, and so we’ll have obtained our
personal proof of the spiritual Truth, that’s what renders it highly useful and concretely practical. Otherwise we can see it from a scientific point of view: as David Bohm, eminent scientist as well as a researcher of the Truth, who combined his intuition of the All with science, widely shown and discussed: the principle of our material reality is the interpretation we make of it. In any way it’s recognized, this concept is fundamental to realize our own individual responsibility in the creation of the physical reality, hence of peace or conflict too. It’s an individual responsibility because the internal world is the origin of the external reality and it’s indivisible from it, the exterior is its extension, therefore the internal world, which man commonly considers so little, has a universal influence due to the absence of separation between us and all the visible reality. As soon as we realize it, that responsibility becomes liberty, for our internal world is only under our dominion and not of others, and if we consciously appropriate it, it can become a personal benefit implying the mutual one.

Let’s apply it to the theme of peace. If every effect can be modified only through the modification of the causes, personal conflicts and those of the world, which are effects of causes internal to man, can be modified only through the modification of the internal causes which originated them. All which is manifested is originated by a psychological state, nothing escapes this universal law, therefore peace can only be brought in the world through its inner acquisition, which allows to generate a different interpretation of the exterior. Conflicts comes from the ignorance of the mental power as the only power, superior to the physical one. Those who don’t recognize it, or do not comprehend it, or do not accept it, or put the mental power in a secondary level, have the necessity to use physical actions to counteract a reality that they consider independent of themselves, feeling imprisoned and powerless in front of the world. By not grasping the origin of the visible reality, underestimating the unity between the observer and the object or subject observed, one is brought logically to try to modify the exterior in the ways he knows, which are commonly physical. They are overwhelmed  by facts because they don’t perceive the psychological cause within themselves. Spectators, of facts and of their authors, react and by their reactions express their interpretation of the visible reality and by that meaning they further the reality of those facts. We cannot blame all that, but we can use it to understand how to behave if we want to bring benefit to facts and their authors, both when we are in the guise of the author or of the spectator.

Without creating a justification, we should comprehend that violence is the fruit of a situation as illustrated above, of the mental ignorance and slavery of those who operate it and it’s increased by those who, while observing, sit in judgment, searching for the right and the wrong of it, maybe condemning. The reason lays in the fact that that operates a division of what is indivisible, and brings confusion in the universal order which is naturally harmony and peace, so we can notice that also in the role of observers we can contribute to consolidate violence and sow more of it. Knowing that, it’s intuitable what we can do in concrete for peace. That wars have never resolved anything and will never resolve anything of what they were intended to resolve is a fact which finds its fundamental in the principle that the external reality is an effect of a cause which is within man, therefore he who tries to bring peace by incarnating a consciousness of hate, rage and condemnation instead of love, can never create peace; it’s to the cause that we must address to bring peace by embodying a psychological state of love and peace which cannot, for its nature, know judgment nor condemnation. He who believes in mental power, he who knows that there’s no origin for the material world save in the inwardness of man, discriminates attentively what he entertains within, putting in the place of facts seen by physical eyes, when undesired, always the ones he would see manifested, and he does it from the premises of ideals based upon a unique feeling: love.
If we want to bring peace in our lives and in reflection in the world we have to start to be conscious of the infinite power which is within each of us and which is one and indivisible, to grasp the responsibility that each one of our thoughts and feelings is a seed that falls in the fertile ground of universal consciousness and grows up and inevitably bears fruits of that nature in the future, both to ourselves and the entire world, and in such awareness we should learn to discriminate and entertain within us only the more noble ideals we want to see reflected in the world: love, peace, brotherhood, comprehension, harmony, joy, abundance for all, and if the mind goes to judgment and to condemnation, let’s remind ourselves that that’s not our task and it’s counter-productive for the creation of peace. Judgment and condemnation are necessities created by the man who ignores the true nature of things, which is the unity underlaying every visible thing and which is a universal one, eternal, omnipresent and indivisible. Condemnation and judgment don’t resolve circumstances but worst them, is more noble he who imagines and thinks of revenge? or invokes punishment? or wishes the worst to his fellows? No! For between an imaginal act and a physical one there’s no difference because consciousness is One, universal and indivisible. The external is not independent and moved by some kind of a force external to man. So that, let’s not judge, but let’s resolve! In the world there are those who fight, who use violence, they’re persons who are wearing a state of consciousness, oblivious to the infinite power which is in them and which is called Love, they try to rid themselves of their own internal slavery, a psychological prison that they do not even recognize, through harming others, let’s help them! We don’t justify violence, nor badness in such a way but we operate the universal law which tells us that "what we sow, that we shall reap". Let’s not react as ‘sleepwalkers’, let’s awake to the infinite power within us, which is love, and trust the feeling of Love, which doesn’t know obstacles, to bring peace into others’ hearts, by entertaining it in ourselves at first instance, it will be the seed which will bear fruits of the same nature, replacing badness by goodness, bringing peace, harmony and brotherhood. This is the correct vision of reality, it’s what everyone should never lose sight of to spread peace: there’s no way to see peace reflected in the world save by bringing it within ourselves without any sort of condition because before each mask we wear, we are brothers, before each physical act we are the same being, the same universal consciousness.

“And how can you know, Lady, why one, sometimes steals; why one, sometimes kills; why one, sometimes, let’s say - ugly, old, poor – for the love of a woman who holds his heart tightly gripped as in a clamp, and makes him not to say: -ouch!- that soon she blows it out with a kiss on his mouth, so that this old poor man struggles and gets drunk – how can you know, Lady, with which pain in the body, with which torment this old man can submit himself to the point of sharing the love of that woman with another man – rich, young, handsome – especially if that woman gives him the satisfaction that the owner is he and that things are made in such a way that no one will notice them?”

from Luigi Pirandello’s 'Caps and bells'      

I suggest you the reading of Luigi Pirandello’s ‘Caps and bells’, from which I extracted the pass above. one of  the several theatrical plays of this enlightened great Italian writer, who knew how to highlight the psychological drama of life. Mrs Beatrice, feeling betrayed, for the thirst of revenge, for the thirst of a human justice which always puts at first place the need of finding a scapegoat in trying to relieve one’s own sorrows, overwhelms the others’ lives and creates confusion and suffering. It is Ciampa, one betrayed too, who shows her that ‘there’s no one in the world more crazy than the one who believes to be right’.