Peace

A few days back, my daughter abraded me for sending the previous messages about the Ukraine war promotion situation.  Even though I talked about peace at the end of the messages, she complained that they, my messages, did not bring peace into her heart by their reading.

Well...  I suppose my messages would bring as much peace to you as a medical report informing you that you test positive for a malignant tumor would.  Because that is what Humanity's Body has.  A malignant tumor that has been growing for quite some time now, and it has the potential of destroying us all, if left unattended.  I'm sure we can all see it, sense it, feel it.

But my intention for sending these messages to you is not to participate in some Fear-Porn-Fest like many other reports/articles do, but to suggest a viable solution to the situation.

Let me explain... While studying the Vipassana Meditation method, the reputed original and not-altered meditation method taught by the Buddha himself, we learn to focus our attention on the breath.  Only on the breath.  In.  Out.  In.  Out.  For hours we focus on our breath while sitting in the lotus position.  Well, after a few minutes on that position, supposedly motionless, one begins to get all sorts of pains.  In your knees, your back, neck, and so forth.  It is impossible to focus only on your breath with all those distractions.  You try to ignore the pain.  You try to push it away, to bare it, to deny it, and so forth, with no success at all.  In fact it seemed to get worse the more you try it.  There is just NO way of sitting still for one hour at a time.  And yet, the more advanced meditators, sitting around the teacher, could do it just fine.  Sitting there motionless, straight, and serene.  Every day we did 5 or so 1 hour meditation periods, each getting worse in our ability to sit still and concentrate on our breath.  Until the third day (It was a 7 day course) when we were told the secret to get rid of the various pains.

And the secret is...  simply LOOK at it.  Just look at the area of discomfort.  Without judgement.  Not trying to get rid of it.  Not wanting it to go away.  Just look at it.  With "total equanimity" as Mr. Goinga said (the organizer of the Vipassana program)  And sure enough, the pains/discomforts go away.  Then you can sit there, motionless, comfortably, and concentrate on your breath for hours on end.  Then you can focus on what the real goal of meditation is, becoming aware, feel, the energy being produced by every single cell of your body (my interpretation).  When we become aware, conscious, of the energy emanating from every cell in our body, we can feel Nirvana...  Ecstasy...  The Bliss of Knowing as "advertised" by previous Avatars.

Since then I've handled every sort of pain I have in my body with that method.  From acid reflux, to chest pains, to twisted arm, to dental pain, and so forth.  It works for me.  Just LOOK at it, and eventually it goes away.

Anyway, back in the world "out there"...  I believe the same method can work with the "discomforts" our Humanity Body is feeling.  We, as responsible citizens of our respective countries (neuron cells in the brain of the Humanity Body) need to LOOK at the areas of discomfort.  Simply look, become aware the true situation, of the areas where the pain is being felt.  Thanks to the Internet, the facts can be found.  There are sources out there that are trying to bring actual data to the public.  But we need to actively search and learn to discern which are the sources of information and which are just noise.  The organs of the Establishment will never give us the actual truth.  They are in the business of supporting the ruling elite.  This act alone, of becoming aware of the truth, together with our conversation between friends and families, will be a great first step to eliminate those areas of body "discomfort".

While I was composing this message in my head, I realized that not many people have the same point of view as I do.  I don't know of anyone that does, actually.  So it is to be expected that not many people would understand what I'm trying to say.  However, as "luck" would have it (synchronicity?) I just recently ran across the works of Robert David Steele, an ex-Marine and CIA operative with over 30 years of service in the intelligence community, who comes out with similar conclusion but from a completely different point of view, totally pragmatic, experience based insights.  He has come out with excellent and workable ideas.  His latest book is "Open Source Everything Manifesto". 

Now, since he's no namby-pamby-hippy-dippy-flower-child-peacenic like yours truly here, his ideas may be more comprehensible to you. 
Here's a short 6 minute video introducing him.
Here's an article introducing his ideas.

But you still have to look at the situation in reality...  We need to become aware of exactly what is happening.

If we want World Peace, we need to know what is in the Air Traffic Control tapes confiscated by the Kiev government in Ukraine

If we want World Peace, we need to know what is in the 28 classified pages of the 9/11 Commission Report

If we want World Peace, we need to know what is in the confiscated videotapes of the surveillance cameras that caught the airplane crash into the Pentagon

If we want World Peace, we need to know what is in the classified files of the JFK assassination investigation

And so on and so forth... These are just a few of the black secrets that keep infecting our Humanity Body. I'm sure you get what I mean.

Pass the word.  Expand the circle of awareness.

Sincerely,

Bob