04/16/2023
ENDING THE WAR
When you’re not happy in yourself, you focus on how others are deficient.
When you’re not centred, you focus on how others are off-centre.
If you run from your own faults, you’ll see faults everywhere you look.
THEY are unconscious. THEY are unaware. THEY are wrong.
THEY are dumb, stupid, blind.
THEY worship the wrong God. Think the wrong thoughts. Feel the wrong feelings.
They need to be stopped. Changed. Transformed. Destroyed.
And it’s your job to teach them. Or punish them. Or save them.
Or shock them out of their ignorance.
Or even kill them, to find relief.
You become judgemental, critical. You try to stop the “ignorant ones” having their experience, being who they are.
You start to play God. Or the guru. The expert. The “One Who Knows”.
You suppress your vulnerability. Your own shame.
Your doubts. Your imperfections.
Your faults.
You focus on the imperfection of the “other”, and ignore your own shortcomings.
You separate yourself from the great river of humanity.
You think that controlling others will bring you relief, relaxation, peace.
“When they change, I’ll rest!”
This is the great lie, and the beginning of all war.
Controlling others can never, ever bring about inner peace.
IT CAN ONLY CREATE POWERLESSNESS.
End the war. Look within:
What are YOU running from?
- Jeff Foster
