Written by Mathew Naismith
Peace, a state of consciousness that is seemingly forever eluding mans created reality but finding peace is actually quite simple. In the absence of war there is peace, this is inline with, in the absence of hate there is love. Is it as simple as that? Well, no but yes.
If we suffer with a migraine headache, are we at peace? If we are being invaded by a force that wants to kill us, is this peace? If we were sexually abused as a child, is this peace, especially at the time of the abuse? You know what peace is as is the same with love? Making peace with what is not peaceful, we may now think that love is loving what is hateful but it's not, it is making peace with what is hateful. No, this does not mean you embrace hate, migraine headaches, sexual abuse or being killed, it simply means that you don't hate or are at war with what is not of peace or love.
Transitory peace; a personal reality created in the absence of war. You can create a personal reality that is of the absence of war or conflict, a task that takes a continuous amount of hard core focus, while ignoring what is not peaceful or loving around you which is not true peace or loving. So we try to ignore or don't become involved in the reality we are in that is around us, in the process are at peace or of love in the absence of war and hate!!
Perpetual peace; a personal reality not of the absence of the surrounding reality but within the surrounding reality. In other words you embrace or become involved with all of what reality is in the absence of warring with this reality. Perpetual peace is not of the absence of war, perpetual peace is of the absence of warring with war or have a hate of war.
I will give you an example of this. In my last post titled, “No to Persecution altogether, I stated” So you can see why I say no to persecution, while saying yes to accountability.” I don't want to persecute what is of war and hate because real peace and love can only come through accountability of war and hate. Trying to create a personal reality based on the absence of war and hate is of persecution of war and hate, not of accountability of the realities that war and hate create.
Accountability: Responsibility to someone or for some activity.
Peace and love can only be found through responsibility, taking responsibility of the realities war and hate create. To be honest, we are not a very responsible species or entity. I wrote a few years ago about how humanity is just coming out of a child like state of mind, resulting in an adolescent state mind, while being aware of how turbulent adolescence can be!! A child like state of mind is not of a responsible mind, therefore will be in a mind of persecution rather than accountability. In the adolescent state of mind, we start to learn to become responsible therefore accountable for the realities humanity creates, not an easy task for many of us. Why is it not an easy task at this stage of life? Because we only desire to be in the realities we desire, not of realities we don't desire to be a part of, to be absent of.
How often does the child and adolescent mind become lost within their own reality?
So creating our own personal reality or state of mind showing accountability or being responsible, responsible to what kind of reality war and hate create? We are simply not taking responsibility, instead often take the road to persecution of what we desire to be absent of, a huge mistake in my mind because it is still of what we are are trying to become absent of, in the process not learning how to become a responsible species of adulthood. In reality, some people just don't grow up, the same goes with species that don't evolve or have a desire not to evolve.
It is not of the absence of something that makes the difference in the end, it is the way the journey is taken. Not in absence of something not desired but in taking responsibility for what is not desired along the journey taken. So many of us a shrugging responsibility for a reality we desire to be absent of. The journey itself to adulthood is of the presence of what we have to learn from to become adults, not of what we desire the journey to adulthood to be absent of!!
