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A Man of Peace Below is an an extract from the weekly ezine Blessings for YOU available FREE - see below A man of peace is not a pacifist; a man of peace is simply a pool of silence. He pulsates a new kind of energy into the world. He sings a new song. He lives in a totally new way. His very way of life is that of grace, that of prayer, that of compassion. Whomsoever he touches, he creates more love energy. The man of peace is creative. He is not against war, because to be against anything is to be at war. He is not against war; he simply understands why war exists. And out of that understanding he becomes peaceful. Only when there are many people who are pools of peace, silence, understanding, will war disappear. -- Osho
They know that this takes tremendous courage. This is not the courage of the soldier willing to die but the courage of the one willing to let go into nothingness. This is why the elders of the Native American take the wounded soldier and teach him how to let go. They teach him how important it is to give up all attachment to the ego and the idea of separateness from the Great Spirit. Many of us have become “the people of attachment.” Our homes are full of everything and anything. There is little space in which “to be.” The energy around our home does not and cannot flow and we stagnate. We slowly die within clutter and our attachment to clutter. We find it hard to breathe out. We refuse to let go. We, unlike the real warrior, fear our dying and thus fear our rebirth. In our present culture we appease our fear of separateness and our distance from our soul by going shopping. This is compensation for the fact that there is little or no awe in our lives. Shopping has become the new religion. The Mall has become our place of worship. Our God has become the God of perpetual growth that cannot and never can be sustained. As the Tao Do Ching tells us, “When men lose the sense of awe they turn to religion.” We buy and buy things because we no longer create. We get satisfaction but we lose our connection with what is essential. Without expressing our co-creativity with the Beloved we stagnate. Our ability to create is what makes us human. Creation is what it means, “to be.” It is what makes this being born an experience of wonder. It is what makes this being born the experience of being chosen. This sense of awe is our birthright. We have to choose to allow it. We have to become peaceful warriors and practice discernment. Otherwise the energy field called the body begins to vibrate at lower and lower levels until we surrender not to love but to the slow death of passivity. Thus we never experience the awe of “being love in action” which is the real way to be alive in this world that is simply extraordinary. The energy field called the body becomes stagnant
and we can no longer fight for our life. At this point we retreat
to the non-living room and suffer from couch-potato-itess and
live our lives through surrogate celebration. What then to fight
for? What then to live for? Like everything in this culture of
never enough life too becomes a commodity that is to be consumed. © Tony Cuckson 2005 - 2006
Tony Cuckson who runs these groups is a storyteller, writer, workshop leader and Anam cara (Soul Friend) .
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