A couple days ago, I wrote:
“Everything true already is
Everything false is a step away.
Everything true is here and now
Everything false is if and then.
Everything true is effortless
Everything false must be fought for.”
Expanding on this… how so? If something is an inalienable right, then it’s only so because it’s already true. Because it’s natural – because it’s how it’s created in nature. What already is, doesn’t have to be defended, fought for and acquired, does it?
When we fight, it’s because we perceive that someone can grant or take away what already is. And if someone can grant it or take it away, then how is it true? How is it inalienable? ‘It’ must be false, no?
This is because the ‘it’ that we’re fighting for is not that inalienable, natural truth. It is something we’ve artificially constructed and become attached to.Â
What we cannot see in our fear (and related anger, hatred, projections, intellectual rhetoric, etc.) is that someone cannot take away what’s already true, someone can only act out a role as an illusory obstacle to our experiencing it. Yes, their role may manifest as physical obstacle, but the obstacle itself isn’t what we’re usually “fighting” about. We fight to be right. We fight to protect an identity, a construct or concept, an idea or ideology, a belief, a meaning we’ve made of something… instead of simply serving out the natural rightness of things. This reflects a deep-seated, latent, survivalist fear that, perhaps, somehow, what is natural may not be true (for “me”), after all. So, we want to be right about what already is.
And it is this wanting to be right that is false, equally an illusion, created in a survivalist fear- (ego-)response to the illusion someone else is creating, also out of fear and ego. It is therefore a single creation, a collaboration, a dance between both parties. It is ONE occurrence, a co-decision to falsely believe that something that already is, something that is natural, something that is inalienable can be “given” or “taken away” by somebody, and therefore has to be “taken back” or “reclaimed.” For the conflict, the “fight,” to live on, both parties have to continue this illusory dance. The fight becomes an obsessive occupation, keeping us from experiencing and living what is already true, and all the while, what is already true is still true! Smile.
Any physical actions we wish to take when there are obstacles to our experiencing what is naturally true, need only be steps to re-align in harmony with what is natural, what is already true. For this, there is no fight necessary, only a series of calm (even if outwardly activated!) and creative steps, organically in response to a temporary disturbance and misalignment. All the rest is just noise.
It is like going off-key and simply returning to the note, to alignment, to harmony. For this we don’t have to fight; fighting only takes us farther off from singing, and creates more aberration, more off-key, jarring stuff. Noise.
Why is this so important? Do we really wish to model to our children that they must fight for what is already true, what is already theirs, freely and as a natural gift? If we put a fight in them for what is natural, how will they reach beyond the stars in their imaginations and create? They will spend their energy on a treadmill, “fighting” for what already is. They will forget their pure, untarnished, inalienable power.
Fighting is exhausting and depleting, it is a giving away of natural, innate power into an illusory sinkhole. Perhaps we need less to protect our children, and more to allow them freedom from our baggage…? Their inalienable right to see anew?
Look – truly, deeply – into a child’s eyes when you sing a single note to them, with them. Look into their souls when you breathe inspiration. You’ll see that there is no fight, only effortless, free-flowing, sparkling life.
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