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11 Mar 2014 · 09:43

Enslavement – Blog No. 13

slaveryThere is no morality in slavery.  You cannot expect to enslave another human being without finding yourself in due course on the über-cruel receiving end of slavery, yourself.  That there are those who are enslaved in the 21st century should not surprise anybody.  There are still those that believe that theirs’ is the right to control the life of another sentient being.  Theirs’ is not the right – it is never the right thing to do – and this should matter to every person on this planet.  It does not matter to a whole contingent of people inhabiting planet Earth and this fact would be laughable – because of the reciprosity of karma – if only the subject of slavery was not as distasteful as it is.

I do not doubt that every nation has been guilty at some stage of slavery in one shape or another.  Whether it is the money-enslaved masses of the west and the would-be west, the trafficked girls from the east, the labouring children in factories and mines, the militant child soldiers from Africa or the political puppets that run this world, it should be recognised that this form of oppression is ongoing and it is unacceptable.  People need to be free.

Enslavement is wrong.  Simply wrong.  There is no justification for it, whatsoever.  It is not for one person or organisation to ‘own’ another’s life and direct their passage, their path.  If you are a president, for instance, you should (want to) be able to act according to your own will in the best interests of your people.  The people put you where you are for a good reason.  Authority figures should not be coerced into action or non-action by their peers, their governing bodies.  A presidential slave is a problem of the highest order because a spearhead is put in place to lead the way through confrontation, conflict and resolution.  Should a spearhead be blunted by indecision and external influence, it loses its efficacy immediately.  Mr Mandela was a spearhead, he was never a slave to his circumstance or anyone else’s.  His example should really have changed the ways of this entire planet by now.

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10 Sep 2013 · 11:26

War – Blog No. 71

blog41This world did not get to where it is by swapping recipes or dancing hand-in-hand around the maypole.  There are forces at war in every day, every country, every man.  The sooner people realise that Shiva is alive and well, the better.  What does war mean in 2013?  It does not mean the same as war in 1939.  No.  It does not mean the same as Hiroshima.  Nagasaki.  War in 2013 means suggesting to aggressors that theirs’ is not a wise tack to take.  Is it not an act of humanity, striking against what is wrong?  There is not one American, or one British person, or in fact any educated person on this planet that would accept their entire town or city being murdered in their sleep by the government.  Not one.  Why should the Syrians stand for it?  Who are they supposed to ask for help, if not the West?  That puts the West in an awkward position.  Do you pretend that what happened – is happening – in the Middle East is acceptable?  Or do you condemn the massacre of innocent civilians with force?  It depends on what language the murderers understand.  If President Obama strikes against Syria, remember that he is not trying to take over the world.  He is not doing a Hitler.  He is authorising his military to protect the people of Syria.  That this action would have widespread ramifications is clearly understood.  I think everybody understands that it is not just Syria and America in the picture here.  There will be retaliation and others will be drawn into the fray.  Does that count as collateral damage?  I wonder.

Let us not pretend there has ever been peace on this planet.  There never has.  What can we do about that?  We can work towards it – the same way generations before us have been working towards it.  It would seem that there is a permanent hitch with Israel and Palestine.  They love this war-business.  They should accept that their protracted battle over a piece of the EARTH is the work of fanaticism.  It is holy land?  Well then stop warring on it, over it.  Respect its holiness.  Give the Palestinians a place to become who they are, please Israel.  Show your bigger heart.  It means a dent to your pride, perhaps, but that is not the worst thing in the world.  The amount of hatred directed at the Jews – for whatever reason anti-semites hate Jews these days – builds for them their fate.  Do you not realise that hate rolls around, and around, and around?  Someone, somewhere has to give ground.  I don’t see where the Palestinians can go if Israel takes the land from under their feet.  Must they now wander in the desert for 40 years?  China, also, should stop stealing borders.  They do not own the planet, they should be a lot more respectful towards it.

You cannot say that bombing Syria is like killing Syrians to stop Syrians killing Syrians.  That is not what happened – is happening.  That is overly simplistic and it is rubbish, besides.  Is bombing Syria perhaps a necessary protest, a stepping-stone in the bigger picture?  Think about it.  When do you stand up and say no?  When enough, is enough.  Where is humanity if the Syrian government can kill its people with impunity whilst the rest of the world stands by and watches?  I wonder.

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15 Feb 2013 · 14:56

Licence to think – Blog No. 15

headspaceIs the greatest commodity on this planet our headspace?  How many different agencies are vying for our attention, clamouring for our ears, our eyes?  Is their need to dominate our realities a real threat?  To be rude, all you do is shut someone out.  That is one of the greatest powers we hold as humans – the power to sever communications with another.  There is nothing quite as brutal as not knowing why a silence has fallen.  There is, too, huge defiance in staying silent.  That kind of defiance is only justified, though, if the silence held holds a beautiful truth that does not need to explain itself to the outside world.  For all beautiful truths resonate the same.  They do not need to be spoken aloud to be realised.  There is a low hum of truthful activity – whether that be saving the environment or healing the sick – alive on our planet.  It is not possible to lose sight of that.  In the battle between ignorance and environment I think the environment is starting to take the lead.  I think there are more green-minded people right now than there are those who don’t give a shit.  Unfortunately for the rest of us there are a lot of people who still don’t give a shit – I am bound here to rant about the UK yobs who can’t even spell ‘green’ and the Chinese who rape virtually everything natural that they come across.  The list of offenders is endless.  There are also a lot of people who are powerless to make big changes – like huge swathes of Chinese people who are bullied by a regimented state system.  They protest and hope someone hears them.  They have to shout loudly to be heard above the racket of communism in the background.  How best to make a nation take themselves more seriously as human beings?  That is no easy task, especially since so many Chinese seem now to be getting lost in the capitalist plot.  Their ears are stuffed too full of designer labels for them to make sense of the ancient wisdom that sings somewhere within the soul of each Chinese person.  Neglecting their heritage, they are playing a dangerous game with their evolution.  We’ve all seen the results of ‘too much West too fast’.  Look at what the missionaries did to a beautifully rich tribal culture.  Look at what happens with the extremity of Sharia law.  Look at the power of Hollywood, of Bollywood.  I have to wonder what we learned from our empire-minded forebears if it was not cruelty, avarice, greed – and most importantly, loyalty to only the self?

What we choose to subscribe to shapes our person and defines our ‘work’ on this planet.  For we all have a ‘work’ to do.  When you find out what yours is, you will know.  It might take you half your life to find that out.  The better equipped you are to search for your work, the better.  So take back your headspace.  You need it.  Use it to some pro-active end.  Lose the thinking that you are what you have been taught.  You are what you have learned.  There is the difference.

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