Illumination Unites the World Now

I felt to post this as a reminder. We can unite the world when we unite within ourselves and then choose it. Uniting means to accept the world as it is, to not oppose, to not fight what is. That does not mean that you condone negative behaviours, it means you do not mirror those negative behaviours. For when people fight what they don’t like they embody the negativity of the other in feelings of hatred, ridicule, demonsing etc. To be in a state of peace is to accept that situations are occuring but to offer peace as a solution, to show another way. It is like the proverbial lantern on the path without force. This is the new way of illumination. That is unity in action.

UNITE THE WORLD

A Culture of Peace,
Is piecing together a culture,
So disparate,
So separate,
Circling many worlds of work,
Many worlds of life,
Many worlds of right,
Many worlds of wrong,
How to create the one song,
Where all sing in harmony.

Sometimes I find it funny,
Sometimes my life is sunny,
Where I look for the light rather than the gloom,
A mirror ball of truths,
All reflecting back,
Some meeting in the middle,
Some meeting on the other side,
Some not meeting at all,
Like ships passing in the night,
Flowing with the stream of life,
Or stuck in mud flats,
Of unchanging thinking.

Imagine standing in my shoes,
I imagine standing in yours,
What would we see if the roles were reversed?
Let’s have a role play,
Where I see you as myself,
And you see me as yourself,
What a wealth of understanding we would share,
This would be the moment we learn to care,
To know what it feels like,
To be the other,
And this is the moment ‘the other’
Disappears,
Through the tears of empathy,
For I know where you are coming from.

The limited say:

When I am right,
You must be wrong,
When I speak truth,
You must be lying,
But what if black and white turned into blended perspectives,
Prisms merging from a kaleidoscope of light,
As each worldview sees a different right,
As colourful,
How do we meet in the middle?
To bring peace to the table,
Passing the candle to illuminate,
This night.

The wise say:

Is it better to be right than happy?
Seek and you will find,
What you do to another you do to yourself,
Love your neighbour as yourself,
for all wisdom sets you free,
to see.

So what would we see in illumination?

W isdom
H appiness,
O neness
L ove
E njoyment

you would see the whole

Those who lead say:

The 4 horseman lead to truth,
The 4 noble truths lead to illumination,
The 4 way test leads to service,
This is the quartet of peace,
That plays in harmony,
That ushers in a new earth,
That will unite the world,
In the end,
As a new beginning.