The man behind the curtain

I want to talk about a topic today that is very difficult to put into words.

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Let me first make a few points:

1- All people know all information
It is stated in the Bible that the kingdom of heaven is within you. Within you is the kingdom all of knowledge and all information. You don’t need to be aware of how you digest food in order to eat. The same way you don’t need to be intellectually aware of something in order to understand it. Our intellectual understanding gets in the way of our experience of life. But I’ll explain anyways because people are still confused.

2-All joy is created by you
If you depend on someone else for your happiness you will always be miserable.

3- Control is opposed to the nature of the universe.
All things in nature function on their own free will. You cannot command people or animals or anything to do things that are opposed to it’s own nature. This will lead to death and destruction. All practices of discipline are designed to lead you to understand that you can’t controls life. Life is a flow of energy, you can swim against the flow and drown, or you can float by letting go, and even some people can swim with the current and move effortlessly.

In the modern age the world is ruled by Warlords.

Man has contributed to the development of fighting forces in order to protect itself and those it loves. But all of the tools and creations of man are subject to misuse.

We live in the age of information… It is now more valuable than oil. Information should be free but it isn’t, It’s been passed onto me and now I give it to anyone who wants it.

At the rate we are going now, I imagine one day we will charge people money for being alive.

Failure to see more than victory is a defeat of life.

Deception has been used for centuries as a means of winning battles. If you can fool your enemies you have a greater chance of destroying them.

Ultimately a deceived person will become wise. Unless of course they die first. No deception can fool everyone, they all get conquered by the truth eventually. Unless you subject everyone fake news.

These are modern issues and serious flaws in thought. Why? All people naturally know all information. If you deceive someone their inner self knows the truth even though their outer self will continue foolishly in agony. A winner of many battles and conquer of the world will consume its self due to the agony of living a lie. Look at what happened to the Ottoman Empire.

Losing a battle whilst honest, can be more powerful than victory by deception.

No victory through the use of force shall be permanent. Only truth can conquer. Why?

In order for an empire to last, it must be honest. Otherwise it will have internal conflict. Look at what happen to the Soviet Union.

Second It is very difficult to completely annihilate an enemy. Though many fighting forces around the world try to use this technique it often does not work.

Look at what the Turks did to the Armenians at the beginning of the 1900.
Look at what the Nazis did to the Jews.
There are countless examples of this practice.

The evolution of war has lead to one group submitting to another. And a more powerful group administering control over a supposed weaker group. This practice also leads to more conflict in the end due to inequality and oppression.

If you succeed in controlling your enemy you must use a tremendous amount of energy. Eventually even the most powerful empire runs out of energy and meets its match.

But let’s say you win.

Once you conquer the world, you will try to conquer the stars. And we have all heard the expression there is always a bigger fish. It all falls apart in the end. It’s a natural Law. Look at any major kingdom or empire and figure it out for yourself.

Walls crumbling, people fading away, power shifting its a perpetual cycle. A tremendous waste of energy implementing control when you can just trust the universe to work on its own free will.

Imagine forcing your finger nails to grow. What a show that would be. Or forcing your premature child to grow. What a day situation that would be…

The Chinese have a very interesting view on the topic.

“We do not fight each other to see who is better. We all have strengths and weaknesses. We fight each other to learn from each other and make ourselves better”

By putting yourself up against someone you have a unique opportunity to learn from their strengths and if they exploit your weaknesses you can learn from that as well.

Unfortunately much of the worlds fighting forces are hell bent on dominating. They are greedy and lust for more power. They think that if they get something from somewhere else that they will be more happy.

All this leads to is more misery.

Happiness can only come from within you. One of the first things you learn in martial arts is that it takes less effort to change yourself than someone else.

If you can’t look within than anything you see on the outside will just be an illusion of your ego. If you rule subject to ego, you will only see a fraction of what is. And ultimately lose.

If more people understood this. We would have a greater chance at peace. If we adopt honesty, peace can thrive.

It’s very difficult to do, but it’s already happening due to the western notion of a science driven world.

But unfortunately even this philosophy is being abused and is not widely recognized by the world.

People believe faith in god is the answer. God would rather let his creatures learn for themselves than to come down from the heavens and be subject to the wrath of all the ignorant people who would rather choose to live in misery than change they way they feel about others.

What you have been conditioned to think and believe is the trouble. But who can blame you when finding the truth can be so difficult.

Wrong thinking leads us to hate even ourselves. How can we even consider loving someone else.

Capitalism driving us to outsmart each other, we have no time for love. If you don’t outsmart them they will beat you to the punch. So it feels safer to deceive than love.

If you live you might get stabbed in the back. It’s safer to swing first, ask questions later. That’s the sad reality. No trust in self, so no trust in other.

Imagine a body where the heart is fighting with the lungs. That’s our world. An eternal struggle. No time for peace. It’s too dangerous. Said the foolish man blindly following his ego into death and tricking the people to follow him off the edge.