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Go, go, go, go!

Think of now what
the universe is.

Space...

And outer space.

A coagulation that
becomes a nebula.

And out of the nebula,

millions of galaxies.

And out of this
constellation of galaxies,

comes forth our
home galaxy.

The Milky Way.

A group of some
400 billion stars

orbiting a galactic center.

And of those
400 billion stars,

the one orbiting star
that is closest to us

is the Sun.

And planets orbit
around it.

And among those planets is
our rich planet...

Which like the Sun
and all the galaxies

also came out
of that nebula.

Neil, we can see you
coming down the ladder now.

That's one small step
for man,

one giant leap for mankind.

And our particular planet
was not too far from this sun,

and not too close.

Not too hot or too cold.

So then,

out of this Earth of ours

have come fauna and flora...

And bacteria.

And fish.

And lions.

And lambs.

Out of this Earth,
have come we,

as the eyes and the ears,

and the consciousness...

And the breathing of
the Earth itself,

as its children.

And since the Earth came
out of space,

is it any wonder

that the laws of space
live in us?

When Galileo recognized
that the law of ballistics

on this Earth
operates on other planets,

he began something

that came to fulfillment
in fruition in our memoirs.

Because when the astronauts were asked
after going around the Moon,

"who navigated?",

they answered, "Newton."

How is it that we can
ascertain something here

with absolute certainty,

something that pertains
over there?

In other words,

the laws of time and space,

were precisely known to man

as are the laws within
our own heads.

They are already in us...

Because we all come
from the same galaxy,

the same nebula,

the same universe.

And so we reach the point...

Why do we see opposites
in one another?

Why is there
any division whatsoever?

We all exist in
the same atmosphere.

Why, then, do we separate
and distinguish?

I am interested neither in black power
or white power,

but human power
for all of us here.

How, in name...

we are earthling,

for we are a human,

animal,

tree.

Not the same but equal.

Just consider the root
of the word "universe."

"Uni" equals one,

as in unite,

union,

unanimous.

And 'verse' equals turn

or change,
as in,

reverse or versatile.

Therefore, the word "universe"
quite literally means...

All turned into one.

As Carl Sagan and
Ann Druyan wrote,

the creatures with which
we are concerned,

namely us,
were not so long ago

noisy, quarrelsome,

clever, tool-using,

with prolonged childhoods
and tender regard for their young.

One thing led to another.

And in a twinkling, their descendants had
multiplied all over the planet,

killed off all their rivals,

devised world-transforming
technologies

and posed a mortal danger
to themselves

and to many other beings
with whom they share their small home.

It is a common trait we primitive
organisms seem to share,

a weakness
for territoriality...

Which not only prevents man's
understanding of their fellow earthlings,

their fellow beings,
but of the cosmos,

which we are only
a fraction of a part.

It's easy to think of us as
isolated from the cosmos.

A self-sufficient world
minding its own business.

But all cannot be understood

if we imagine the Earth
hermetically sealed

from the rest of the universe

with only a little sunlight
trickling in from the outside.

Out there and down here
are not separate compartments.

The sky and the Earth are one.

Each of us is a tiny being

permitted to ride
on the outermost skin

of one of the smallest planets
of this solar system,

and only for a few dozen trips
around our local star.

Which means we each inhabit
a frighteningly shallow zone

of environmental clemency.

However, because we are
such primitive organisms

always striving against each other
for power and supremacy,

we conquer in order to maintain
a few more inches

on which
to stand triumphant,

but in a universe
beyond measure.

Due to this territoriality,

we also streamline
the destinies of weaker earthlings

into extinction or ruin.

And then have the audacity
to claim their chosen patch

on the surface of this sphere
as our own,

if only for a brief
period of time.

The longest lived organisms
on Earth

endure for about a millionth
of the age of our planet.

We're blunt, we are fleeting,
transitional characters.

And our tiny, fragile world
is lost in a cosmic ocean

vastly beyond our most
courageous imaginings.

So despite all our posturing,

all our imagines of importance,

self-congratulatory chauvinism,

clearly, we as human beings,

have not been given the
lead in this rather epic
cosmic drama.

Perhaps, someone else has.

Perhaps, no one else has.

In either case, we have
good reason for humility.

If we were randomly inserted
into the cosmos,

the chance that we would
find ourselves home or near a planet

would be less than one in
a billion trillion trillion.

That's a one followed by
thirty three zeros.

In everyday life,
such odds are called compelling.

Worlds are precious.

Can we be trusted
with our own future?

Are we capable, if need be,
of fundamental change?

Are we wise enough to know
what changes to make?

Can we alter our character?

Can we improve our societies and find
another way to be alive?

Or are we too entrenched
in traditions?

For it is here, and only here,
on this litte patch of raw Mother Earth,

that we are in some pain
and with no guarantees...

Working out our destiny.

The whole universe
is a manifestation of energy

which we now know
from our atom.

We are such energy.

We are made up of atoms.

But the atom emerges
as a complete replica

of the energy structures
in all forms of life...

Cosmic.

Planetary.

Human.

Mineral.

Vegetable.

Animal.

As such, all living things
are not just a chemical reaction

but an energetic charge.

A coalescence of energy,
in a field of energy,

connected to every other thing
in the world.

This is the totality of
our human experience.

Of being incarnate.

Of life in the cosmos,

mind, body, heart and soul.

But because human beings
are so preoccupied

by an externalization of life,

by appearances,
by the material and the individual,

a sort of blindness
perpetuates.

We are obscured by possession.

Possession of the moment,
possession of the material and of the ego.

Even though, as Dante said,

"what a mockery is made

of this brief battle
for possessions

that makes so short a life."

And the disagreements
that arise only lead to our break-up

and ultimately,
the rupture of humanity.

Conclusion, suffering.

So, it is precisely because
we are so preoccupied

by this externalization of life

that we shall begin from
the outside and work our way in.

We are living in an age that Nietzsche
called "a period of comparisons."

There used to be horizons
that kept people apart.

Vast distances.

But technology
has overcome all that.

So today, we live
in an age of comparisons.

The distances
in the physical world

have been replaced
by distances in the mind.

The world is a projection
of the ego.

And what we see
as human tragedy

is the effect
of all those egos.

The consequences of which
we experience collectively as society.

The great Hindu sage,
Sri Ramana,

called our persona
"the apparent actor."

This persona is essentially

the mask or appearance
one projects to the world.

Basically it's the ego,
whose function is to separate,

to divide into classes,

to create duality.

For the ego ideal,
is to be a sole ideal.

It's all about me.
How can I win?

How can I dominate?

How can I impress?

How can I be the best?

But at the expense of what?

This is why everything we see
is a result of our thoughts.

You think you think them and
so, you think you see them.

The inner world, then,
is the cause of the outer world.

Therefore, in order to surrender
the ego and find true peace of mind,

we have to have
mutual thoughts.

There are times
when this world appears

on the brink of
degenerating into massacre.

Somehow, the population
has adopted a great apathy.

We see an increased apathy
towards suffering,

Human and animal alike.

By definition,

apathy reflects a lack of interest in
things one does not consider important.

But where did this apathy
come from?

It's as if society is growing numb,
oblivious to any equality.

Blinded by ego,
by gain.

And yet, the gain of what?

The gain of objects?
The gain of lines on a map?

Human beings are so selfish.

They will kill others
for money, of course,

for any kind of gain.

That's a pretty common one,
to value money over life.

In fact, the ego often prizes
this species we call money

over humanity,
over all expressions of life.

But how can we answer
to our own conscience?

Time is so temporary,
so impermanent.

Nothing material endures.

Because only a few years
of existence separate birth from death.

So this is a reality
that won't last.

Therefore, there is
no such thing as fame

and fortune and
power over others.

Selling out integrity
for power over others is an error.

You are sacrificing it all
for an illusion.

Clearly, there is within
the human that which is almost reptilian,

those who wantedly kill others
for the fun of killing...

And hasn't been eliminated and
still expresses itself quite
strongly in some people.

To witness humankind
in this state,

as pieces unto themselves,
is heartbreaking.

It's heartbreaking because
their hearts are broken.

All strangers to the truth

and yet, ironically,
all strangers of the same blood.

Human.

If humans,
in the physical sense,

are all strangers of
the same blood,

then on the purely
molecular level,

how tragically senseless
or absurd

and futile is war?

The war of being against being.

The idea of countries
or superpowers

Willing to wipe out
all human life

at one point or another
in history

because of
political differences.

And they do it all over the planet,
century after century.

Each one a jealous rival
of the next.

Mankind has been at war
for 95% of recorded history.

How many times
do we have to die in war

before we realize
how absurd it is?

The sheer irony
of political leaders on both sides

being seriously prepared
to incinerate millions of people

have some misguided sense
of national interest.

When they were planning
the mega bomb,

the idea was that
if they lost the war,

they would destroy
all of human life.

Actually, "mega"
is a fitting term

because that's what
you also call "megalomania."

That's the sadistic nature
of the super ego.

Power and money and control.

One succumbs to the glamor
of all that.

One of the great seducers
is glamor.

The glamor of success.

The glamor of prestige.

Megalomaniacs have
no common sense.

Megalomaniacs don't care
if their entire country gets wiped out.

That's the degree of insanity.

Megalomania, you might say,

is the extreme opposite of
what divinity would be.

They almost hate humans.

Hate humanity.

Why, then, do we put our trust
in such leaders?

Such dictators?

The wars being waged now

will seem as meaningless
to people a hundred years from now

as the theological conquests
of the middle ages appear to us today.

But when will human beings
grasp this concept?

What generation will come forth
and mark the turning point

of all civilizations by eliminating
war from this planet?

This very notion of war
must end

if we are to evolve any closer
to enlightenment,

awareness, consciousness
and unity.

For this reason,

wars, once and for all,
must become a thing of the past...

And only that.
For even there,

how they pockmark
human history.

Therefore, our desire should be
to never experience war again.

19th century civilians

couldn't possibly fathom
the wars to come in the 20th century,

wherein millions would die.

A very high price to pay.

But for us, now,
in the 21st century,

we can only look back
somberly and acknowledge

it has already been paid.

Oh, if only we could go back
in time and somehow warn

our 19th century ancestors
of the wars ahead,

the terrible wars to come.

"Which wars?"
they'd ask.

"Against whom?"

When speaking of human history

we recount the rise and fall
of nations and ideas.

Or as historians
Will and Ariel Durant surmised,

we tell sad stories of
the death of kings.

is it possible that, after all,
human history has no sense?

That it teaches us nothing?

And that the immense past

is only the weary rehearsal...

of the mistakes that the future
is destined to make...

on a larger stage and scale.

It's almost as if,
in our struggles for power,

we are actually confronted
by the threat of peace.

Why can't we seem to
share power peacefully

and get back to the
basic things that matter?

Sadly, too often,
the only thing we do share

is our distrust
of one another.

During the Mutiny
on the Bounty,

Fletcher Christian hoped
to avert disaster,

beseeching his crew
by saying,

"We have only to persuade society
of something they already know -

that inhumanity
is its poorest servant."

What else is there
to be served by war?

This wind of destruction?

For soldier and
civilian alike,

the sight of war,
it's bloodshed,

death and destruction.

Is a shock from which
you recover only slowly,

if at all.

War is not neutral

and does not permit
us to remain neutral.

Whomever sees war quakes,

mysteriously shaken
to the core.

War has been part of
civilization for so long,

it's like a creature with some
dark origin we cannot fathom.

It is as though the framework
of war itself sees and hears.

The mechanism understands,

has its own will.

In the hideous nightmare
it projects across the soul,

the awful apparition of war
fuses with its terrible work.

War is the accomplice
of the executioner.

It devours, eats flesh
and drinks blood.

War is a sort of monster
created by judges, politicians,

generals and civilians.

A specter that seems to live
with an unspeakable vitality

drawn from all the death
it has brought over the centuries.

Those were Victor Hugo's words,
paraphrased,

when riding at
the battle of Waterloo.

They seem applicable
to any war

and also portray a relevance
years ahead of their time.

Why, with all our
technology and wisdom,

all our religions, our 12-step programs
and self help books,

why are we still
such savages?

Are we not all earthlings,

each and every one of us?

Energy, bodies,

and as for the human race,
all connected by the same human blood

and therefore, all kin.

There is a level of consciousness
which we all share,

in so much as we all
share a human body...

Even with the dogs and cats
and mammals and vertebrae...

Because we all share
an animal body.

Why, then, we all share the impulses
that animals have?

To speak.

To reproduction.

To aggression.

And winning through.

For they are also
clinging to life,

begetting,

building nests,

making their way.

Sometimes, life is monstrous...

and there is often
a sense of horror.

What is it that life does,
it has to kill and eat other life?

An eternal treadmill
of living by killing.

The whole world is involved
in slaughter and bloodshed.

And we have all been part of
a vast interlocking, murdering machine.

And the slain
will have to rot...

And give their blood here...

In the merciless soil.

As Henry Miller stated,

"It only indicates
our persistence

in the primitiveness
of self-interest."

So what can we hope
from this killing of life,

this killing of kin?

Men still tear one another
to pieces.

Humanity against humanity,
for the sake of humanity.

What logic is there
in this living by killing?

How can we care for power,
pleasure, our own lives even,

when all those others, kinsmen,

civilians, humans and earthlings alike,
must perish?

How can we dare
spill the blood that unites us?

The destruction of war
impacts all life,

human, animal, tree.

War is the ultimate collapse
of unity.

For in our effort to
defend the rights of some,

we assault the rights
of others.

This has been the formula
throughout the history of man.

"The arc of human history
is long,"

lamented Dr. King,

"but it bends towards justice."

Indeed, to look back
at the history of human rights

is a long, unbroken line.

Here the most frightful,
vengeful massacres

have been perpetrated
again and again

throughout the endless,
bloody past of man.

At first, there were no rights,
human or otherwise.

If you were in with the
right crowd, you were safe.

But if you weren't,
then you weren't.

Until a man named Cyrus the Great
decided to change all that.

After conquering Babylon,
he did something completely revolutionary.

He announced that all slaves
were free to go.

He also said people had the
freedom to choose their religion,

no matter what crowd
they were a part of.

They documented these words
on a clay tablet known as

"The Cyrus Cylinder."

That was the birth
of human rights.

The idea spread quickly to Greece,
to India and eventually to Rome.

They noticed that people
naturally follow certain laws,

even if they weren't told to.

They called this "natural law,"

but it kept getting trampled
by those in power.

Not until a thousand years
later, in England,

did a king agree that no one
can overrule the rights of the people.

Not even the king.

People's rights were
finally recognized

and they were now safe
from those in power.

Almost.

It still required
a group of British rebels

declaring their independence

before the King realized that
all men are created equal.

This isn't to say he liked the idea,
but he couldn't stop them.

Thus, America was born.

The French immediately followed with
their own revolution for their own rights.

Their list was even longer

And they insisted that these
rights weren't just made up,

they were natural.

The Roman concept of natural law had
become natural rights.

Unfortunately,
not everyone agreed.

In France, a general named
Napoleon

decided to overthrow
the new French democracy

and crown himself
emperor of the world.

He almost succeeded.

But the countries of Europe
joined forces and defeated him.

Human rights
were again recognized

and they drew up
international agreements

broadly granting many rights
across Europe.

But ONLY across Europe.

Somehow, the rest of the world
still didn't qualify.

Instead they were invaded, conquered
and consumed by Europe's massive empires.

Until, like Cyrus the Great,

a young man from India
decided to change all that too.

His name was
Mahatma Gandhi.

And in the face of violence he insisted
that ALLl people of Earth had rights,

not just in Europe.

Eventually, even Europeans started
to agree, but this was not easy.

Two world wars erupted.

Hitler exterminated
half the Jewish population of Earth

in horrifying Nazi
death camps.

All totaled,
90 million people died.

Never had human rights been
so terrifyingly close to extinction.

And never, had the world been
more desperate for change.

Accordingly, the countries of Earth banded
together and formed the United Nations.

Their basic purpose was...

"...to reaffirm faith in fundamental
human rights,

in the dignity and worth of
the human person."

But what were these
human rights?

Were they the proclamation
of Cyrus, the natural laws of Rome,

the declarations of France?

Everyone seemed to have
a slightly different idea

of what human rights should be.

However, under the supervision
of Eleanor Roosevelt,

they finally agreed on a set of rights
that applied to absolutely everyone.

The Universal Declaration
of Human Rights.

The French concept of natural rights
had finally become human rights.

So, to summarize, first only
the fortunate ones had any rights,

until one person decided that
other people should have rights as well.

Except, not everyone agreed.

And it took a few thousand
years of fighting,

and declarations
and more fighting,

until everyone finally concluded
that human rights should apply to all.

And one would think they all lived happily
ever after, except for one problem.

If people have the right
to food and shelter,

why are 16,000 children dying
of starvation everyday?

One every five seconds.

If people have
freedom of speech,

why are thousands in prison
for speaking their minds?

If people have
the right to education,

why are over a billion adults
unable to read?

If slavery has truly
been abolished,

why are 27 million people
still enslaved today?

The fact is,
when it was signed,

the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights

did not have
the force of law.

It was optional.

And despite many more documents,
conventions, treaties and laws,

it's still little more
than words on a page.

So, the question is,
who will make those words a reality?

I have a dream today.

When Dr. King marched for racial equality,
he was marching for rights

that had been guaranteed by the
United Nations for almost two decades.

But still, he marched.

When Nelson Mandela stood up
for social justice in the 1990s,

his country had already agreed to abolish
such discrimination for nearly 40 years.

But still he fought.

Those who fight today
against torture, poverty and discrimination

are not giants or superheroes.

They are people.
Kids, mothers, fathers and teachers.

They are freethinking
individuals who refuse to be silent.

Who realize that human rights
are not a history lesson.

They are not words on a page.

As Eleanor Roosevelt said,

"where after all do universal
human rights begin?

In small places,
close to home."

Throughout human history, whenever
there is a growing concern about rights,

natural rights,
women's rights,

civil, equal, animal,
environmental,

the right to life,
the right to choose and so on,

it's because of a growing
concern about oppression.

Oppression and dominion
are due to the pridefulness of the ego

which wants to be better
than another.

But all that exists,
loves its life and just wants to be.

When you look in the eyes
of another being,

you can see that
it loves its life.

That it IS.

That it knows that others ARE.

You can see that it loves its life
to the same degree that you love yours.

So, we may think of ourselves
as egos on this planet.

But actually we are all
just a part of this universal process.

This cosmos of which
we are all but morsels.

The Earth is an energy system.

Every drop has
microscopic life in it.

Except we,
who live on Earth at present,

are not provided with our
own inner source of energy.

So we are energy dependent
and have to constantly acquire.

Each of us is built
in a mysterious way,

a human body out of a couple of
little cells in our mother's womb.

But this is not something
we do consciously.

And these bodies
have complex organs

specifically directed towards
certain aims and intentions.

Yet none of these are
designed by our reason,

our ego or by
our consciousness.

Furthermore, none of these
organs even asks consciousness

what they are functioning for.

It being a job
of consciousness forever,

to discover what this body
is all about.

Consciousness, as we know it,

typically comes much
later in life

and as other notions of
how things ought to be,

what virtue is, and so forth.

That is the meaning
of being incarnate.

Consciousness embodied
in flesh.

So then, how should we
nourish these bodies

encircling our consciousness?

Well, for starters we know
that we are what we eat.

When it comes to nutrition,
we now know,

that everything you eat and drink
has an effect on your mind and body.

To state the startling fact
right off,

it is almost an accepted
consequence of modern life

that we will succumb to some
type of degenerative illness

sooner than we would expect.

That's the karma
of protoplasm.

Everyone wants to have
more energy, of course.

But one particular function of the human
body demands a great deal of energy.

And that is the digestion
of food.

As Harvey Diamond outlines,
we need to understand the effect

food has on the length
and quality of one's life.

And inform people how to eliminate
the cause of their health problems,

rather than constantly
battle the effects of

violating these natural laws
that govern our bodies.

Simply put, any food
the body can't use

becomes toxic and
becomes waste.

Isn't it interesting
that we eat in such a way

as to not cleanse but
pollute our bodies.

We actually eat in such a way
as to clog them.

That's why there are so many
heart bypass operations per year.

Because people's arteries
are so clogged.

Just consider all the mammals.

Have you ever seen a fat tiger
or a koala in the wild?

Have you ever seen
animals in nature

that have lost their teeth
and use false teeth to eat?

Or have hearing aids to hear?

Or have glasses
so they can see?

Or are wearing toupees
because they went bald?

Or have pacemakers
to make their hearts pump?

Or dialysis machines
for their kidneys?

Have you ever heard of a million animals
in a year dying of heart disease?

Or Cancer? Or strokes?

Or diabetes?

Animals in nature
are magnificently healthy

in comparison to the health
that we humans experience.

Their bodies are not clogged
and they are not overweight.

That is why they experience a state of
physical health much superior than ours.

Since meat is generally thought to
be the most ideal source of protein,

think of some of the most
strongest animals on the planet.

Elephants, oxen,

horses, mules,

camels, water buffalo.

And what do they eat?

Leafy matter, grass and fruit.

All nutritive material
is formed in the plant kingdom.

That is why all the animals
have strength.

Particularly those whose strength we
harness, have all the protein they need.

And as such, it is far more
important for us to think in terms of

how much fruit or vegetables
we are going to eat during the day

than how much protein.

But here is the real truth.

Because we eat animals,
they end up killing us

after we've killed them.

In essence, the human loses.

He loses when he wins.

He dies when he kills.

The heart is at
the center of it all.

Therefore heart disease
points to what?

Food as the culprit.

Food that cannot be eliminated.

So, on one hand,
we have food industries

and even governments,
claiming the benefits of eating meat.

And on the other,
we have our common sense

finding that point of view
very hard to swallow.

Literally.

One could even argue that
humans do all they can

to actually make meat look
more like fruit.

They alter its texture,
change its shape,

Sweeten it, make it smoother,

rounder.

We even reintroduce smells
of the Earth back into the meat

by seasoning it with herbs,
all of which come from plants.

The same could even be said
for the processing of dairy products.

All mammals take milk from
their mothers during infancy.

But then they are weaned
and spend the remainder of their lives

sustained by other foods.

Nature dictates that we are to
be weaned at an early age.

Humans, however,
are the only species on Earth

who continue drinking milk
after infancy.

And what's stranger still
is that we don't drink our own milk.

But rather the milk
of another species.

We much prefer
drinking cow's milk

even though it's intended
for baby cows.

Like humans, cows only produce milk
when they have babies.

But to us,
the babies are byproducts.

Millions and millions
of them each year.

And we don't want
all those babies.

So, we take their mother's
milk for ourselves...

And all the baby cows are killed,
if not used to make more milk.

This is how one
affects the other.

So what does compassion
for animals

have to do with being
conscious or being loving?

Such compassion actually
crosses species lines.

That's because consciousness is when
we feel the suffering of every creature

in our own hearts.

That is our relationship
to the harmony of being.

That is awakening.

So this is why the question
of consciousness is being raised,

in how we feed the body.

Joseph Campbell taught
that the primal image of life

is all too often this massive,
consuming monster.

Which would not even be here
if we are not consuming life.

Or let's put it
in another way.

Relying on death,

living by killing.

If the definition of incarnate
is consciousness embodied in flesh,

then, as protoplasm,
are we not here

to evolve beyond
the primal function?

Leonardo Da Vinci stated,

"the time will come when man
shall look upon the murder of animals

as they now look upon
the murder of men."

That was 500 years ago.

Henry David Thoreau
suggested that,

"it is part of the destiny
of the human race

in its gradual improvement

to leave off eating animals

as surely as the savage tribes,

have left off
eating each other."

That was 150 years ago.

Martin Luther King Jr.
expressed that,

"one day, the absurdity
of the almost universal belief

in the slavery of other
animals will be palpable.

We shall then have
discovered our souls

and become worthier of
sharing this planet with them."

And that was less than
50 years ago.

And so we must
reconcile consciousness...

to this rather monstrous,
self consuming thing...

and not remain
on the primitive level indefinitely.

This is what we call
metamorphosis.

This is how we evolve beyond
the once primal image of life...

wherein, living by killing
is transformed...

into living by loving.

Living by loving may be
the ultimate solution

to all of humankind's
difficulties, problems,

confusion and anguish.

Krishnamurti discloses that
most of us

want the security
of loving and being loved.

But what is love?

Everybody talks of love.

Every magazine and newspaper
and every missionary

talks of everlasting love.

"I love my country."

"I love my king."

"I love some book."

"I love that mountain."

"I love pleasure."

"I love my wife."

"I love God."

Is love an idea?

The church has defined it
in one way, society another.

Adoring someone,
sleeping with someone,

the emotional exchange,
the companionship.

Is that what we mean
by love?

Can love be divided into
the sacred and the profane?

The human and the divine?

Or is there only love?

Is love of the one

and not of a many?

If I say "I love you,"

does that exclude the love
of anyone else?

Is love personal or impersonal?

Moral or immoral?

Family or non-family?

All these questions indicate,
don't they,

that we have ideas about love?

Ideas about what it
should or shouldn't be.

A pattern or a code developed by
the culture in which we live.

One might ask,
why is it that obscenity

is always connected to sex

instead of to war
and even bigotry?

The government says,

"go and kill
for the love of your country."

Is that love?

Religion says, "give up sex
for the love of God."

Is that love?

Is love desire?

For most of us, it is
desire with pleasure.

The pleasure that is derived
through the senses.

This belonging to another,

being psychologically nourished
by another,

depending on another.

In all this there must
always be anxiety,

fear, jealousy, guilt.

And so long as there is fear,

there is no love.

And so love is not to do
with pleasure and desire.

Don't you know now what it
really means to love somebody?

To love without hate,

without jealousy,
without anger,

without wanting to interfere
with what he or she is doing...

or thinking.

Without condemning.

Without comparing.

Where there is love,
is there comparison?

When you love someone
with all your heart,

with your entire mind,

with all your body,

with your entire being,

is there comparison
to something else?

No.
Because there is nothing else.

When you totally abandon
yourself to that love,

there is not the other.

It's non-dual.

It's unity.

Really, to care is to care
as you would for a tree

or a plant.

Watering it, studying its needs,
the best soil for it.

Looking after it with
gentleness and tenderness.

The world is an
educational institution.

And every creature in it
is trying to learn a lesson.

Now what is the lesson
to be learned?

The lesson to be learned
is egolessness.

To quench ego.

To cancel the noise
of eye and mind.

This is my body,

these are my thoughts,

these are my words,

this is my country, etcetera.

My tears,

my family,

my nation,

my belief,

my religion.

All that ugliness,

it is all inside you.

In this torn, desert world,
there is no love,

because pleasure and desire
play the greatest roles.

Yet without love,
your daily life has no meaning.

And you cannot have love
if there is no beauty.

Beauty is not something
you see.

Not a beautiful tree,

a beautiful picture,

a beautiful building

or a beautiful woman.

There is beauty only when your
heart and mind know what love is.

You can see all this happening
inside yourself if you watch it.

You can see in a moment
the whole structure in nature,

this shoddy little thing
called "me."

When you see it with your heart,
not with your mind,

when you see it from
the very bottom of your heart,

then you have the key
that will end sorrow.

So when you ask
what love is,

you may be too frightened
to see the answer.

That fear is not love.

Dependence is not love.

Jealousy is not love.

Possessiveness and domination
are not love.

Responsibility and duty
are not love.

Self pity is not love.

The agony of not being loved
is not love.

So, if you can eliminate
all these,

not by forcing them

but by washing them away,

as the rain washes the dust
of many days from a leaf.

Then perhaps you will
come upon a strange flower,

which man always hungers after.

To find this
extraordinary thing

that man has
sought endlessly

through sacrifice,

through worship,

through relationship,

through sex,

through every form of
pleasure and pain

is only possible

when thought comes
to understand itself

and comes naturally
to an end.

After all, the first separation
is within our thoughts.

But as Eckhart Tolle wrote,

"at the heart of consciousness

lies the transcendence
of thought.

A new found ability of
rising above thought,

or realizing a dimension
within ourselves

that is infinitely more
vast than thought."

Then love has no opposite.

Then love has no conflict.

It means that
you are not seeking,

not wanting,

not pursuing.

There is no center at all.

Then, there is love.

And that's how you find it.

Krishnamurti concluded
by saying,

"you know intellectually

that the unity of
humankind is essential...

and that love is the only way."

This is the universal principle
of compassion.

Out of many,

one.

After all,
what is the meaning of life

if not to elevate
our level of consciousness?

Was it only to have a family?

To list one's accomplishments
or to seek advancement?

Was there some enterprise
we had sought to master?

Was it only being a success
in the eyes of the world?

Was it all pursuit of fame?

Killing ourselves
for recognition?

Are we only addicted
to attention,

glory, pleasure seeking?

Was progress our
only obsession?

Consuming things
our defining quality?

More capital, more comforts.

It's not that these things
are wrong,

but what is
the real meaning of life?

To be an air-breather?

What is the average mortality
table of human beings anyway?

80, 85 years?

So with all that getting,
yet understanding.

Because the only achievement
we take with us when we die

is our level of consciousness,
nothing else.

What does this vast
and mysterious universe of ours

have to do with
the human struggle,

our conflicts, our wars?

What does war, for that matter,
have to do with what we consume?

Moreover, what does consumption
have to do with unconditional love?

And what does love,
in fact,

what does any of this really
have to do with energy

or states of higher
consciousness or unity?

Are these not separate issues,

separate pieces,

separate compartments?

Or are they all interrelated
within the fabric of mortal life?

Across the cosmic horizon,

space is expanding faster
than the speed of light.

And though we come out
of space, out of the universe,

our physical lives
are fleeting.

How can this be?

Reason demands
a better answer

and that answer is given.

Our life of Earth has
only one aim and purpose,

to identify our physical bodies
with our energy bodies.

The physical self
with the eternal self,

that part of us
which will never cease to exist.

It's as if life
is a collage

of all the things
that ever existed.

And when it's our turn
to go into the afterlife,

all that remains
is this question...

What is the purpose
of this existence?

Is it mystery,
is it meaninglessness?

And upon reflection of
our experience in this life,

between ego and consciousness,

what of this have we abandoned
and what have we deepened?

What, beyond all these experiences,
have we come to discover about ourselves?

About one another.

And in light of all this,

what difference has it made?

The sky is still blue.

A second is still a second.

What change has occurred?

Babies all come into
this world with nothing

and exude pure joy
in their nothingness.

Their total lack.

It's as if the essence
of every creature

is eternal joy.

They have no guile.

Their thoughts
are only neutral.

And similarly,
in old age,

they leave this world
with nothing.

But this time,
hardened, cynical,

more bitter.

And yet,
the sky remains blue

and a second is
still a second.

So what really changes
over a lifetime?

There are two incontrovertible
facets of life

that all of us must come
to accept, sooner or later.

First, the integration of our consciousness
to physical existence.

Or in other words, birth.

And second,

the withdrawing of consciousness
from physical existence.

That is so say, death.

But, even though all our knowledge and
experience may be limited

to this material existence

and only these five senses,

we can still not believe
that what we truly are

or all that we are,
is limited in the same way.

Why do we have this conception
of ourselves,

of something deeper within us

that is non-biological,
immortal,

even spiritual?

And if so,
then this true spiritual nature

emphasizes the underlining
unity of all forms of life.

In essence,
it's the golden rule...

To do unto others.

Well, define others.

But the answer is,
any expressions of life.

Why is it then,
that so many people,

even spiritual people,

are not convinced that all
beings deserve moral consideration.

We want to save the whales
and the dolphins

and the harp seals,
for instance.

But cows, chickens
and pigs, not so much.

Why is any group of beings
left out?

There can be only one reason.
Perceptions.

And how does this perception
not mirror itself in society?

These beings we are known
to have empathy for.

But these beings we
don't consider important

and have apathy for instead.

Yet, this emotion
we call compassion,

Is the recognition that
you and the other are one,

not separate.

Such compassion may as well be regarded
as scientific evidence

that we are indeed spiritual
beings on a deeper level...

Beyond these five senses and
beyond the laws of biology,

beyond protoplasm.

And the awakening of that compassion
are all expressions of life,

we might say,
is the virgin birth within you.

Survival, then,
is the second law of life.

The first is that
we are all one.

Millions of people
are already striving for peace,

for equality,
for the animals,

for the environment,
for the trees, for bank rivers,

for the sea, for the Earth.

Millions of earthlings are
pacifists already waking, singing,

reducing suffering,
acting consciously,

positively reconnecting
themselves with nature.

For universal responsibility,

realizing and recognizing
that all turn into one.

Into one nation Earth.

For we only have one Earth,
even though we are consuming the resources

equivalent to
four Earths everyday.

So now, we must ask ourselves,
"why do we fight?"

For oil, water,
food, money,

power, land,
climate,

love, religion,
resources, rights?

Consciousness ensues
from goodwill

for the genuine welfare
and happiness of others

as opposed to viewing the world
at large as a gain-seeking transaction.

It used to take thousands
of years for humankind to develop.

But millenniums became centuries and
centuries are becoming decades.

This gives us hope.

We are the universe and
the nebula and the galaxy

and the solar system
and the planet

and the being and the atom.

All one.

So we can transcend
all these positionalities

and that is "Homo Spiritus,"

which we call a being with an
advanced and full spiritual awareness.

This is the evolution of consciousness from
the earliest forms of man.

The Cro-magnon,

The Neanderthal,

Homo Erectus, and eventually,
Homo Sapiens.

Which, due to the emergence of the
frontal cortex literally translates as,

"man, the wise."

Next, is the evolution
of consciousness,

from an animal brain
to an etheric brain

allowing for greater empathy
and understanding.

It's a new branch of human evolution,
wherein the dragon, ego,

that has kept man small,
fearful and separate, falls away.

We begin processing things differently
than any of our hominid predecessors.

Finally crossing over
that critical line from

destruction into construction.

This is the emergence
of Homo Spiritus, the awakened man.

The highest levels of consciousness
achievable in physical form.

In short, that is compassion.

No duality.

And so, there must be something
of divinity within each being.

Something infinite. An energy.

A consciousness.

So then, what are we really
questing for, beyond territoriality?

It is the fulfillment of what is
potential in ourselves.

Our true selves.

It is not an ego trip.

There is nothing you can do that is
more important than being fulfilled.

You become a sign,
you become a signal,

and it has nothing to do
with your persona

or the mask that
society puts upon you.

Mortal life, then,
is a metamorphosis.

A transition from the abject...

To the angelic.

From the wretched
to the divine.

Therefore, we show
kindness and sympathy

to all living things
and all sentient beings.

Each of us is a vehicle through
which consciousness operates.

And not only are each
of us such instruments,

but even animals and trees are.

There is consciousness there.

There is sensitivity there.

You can see a plant
turn towards the sun all by itself.

That is a manifestation
of consciousness.

And so, how does one
put one's mind

to a state of identity
with this consciousness?

We've simply got to evolve
beyond any act

that involves the destruction
of any life.

No more war, no more racism.

No more sexism.

No more speciesism.

No more opposite intensities.

What we really need
is to gather all the different tribes

and crossover into
each other's realms.

And then do away with
the tribes all together.

Because when all Earth's one,

there will no longer be
a need for tribes.

No longer a need
for organizations.

Organizations form groups...

And groups create parts.

And parts are not unity.

Because all causality,

all theology, all science,

and all religion are still
in a dualistic frame of mind.

If God is indeed infinite,

then spiritual reality
means there is no holy land

or promised land,

no geological favoritism,

no Bodhi tree, or Mecca,

or Jerusalem or Vatican,

or Salt Lake City.

No group outside of which
there is no salvation.

No special races, cultures
or chosen people.

This separation from wholeness
is the only lack in this world of ours.

The universe is there...

Here, all around us.

It is in being,
it is in process.

And we,
in all our disequilibrium,

are learning to accord
with this process.

And, to have compassion
with all that lives,

to suffer the sorrow of every
creature within our own hearts.

Harmonious relationships come
from compassion with suffering

and understanding
of the other being...

In whatever form they have
taken in this life.

The spectrum of life
in this planet is multitudinous.

And so we must evolve
beyond separation based on form,

beyond perceiving opposites,

beyond dualities

and the primal image of life.

Remember, the very definition
of universe means:

"all turned into one."

That is why we call
it metamorphosis.

A child becomes the parent.

The acorn becomes
the mighty oak.

The caterpillar becomes
the butterfly.

And the primal human being...

Becomes enlightened.

So instead of a limited race,
a universal, limitless all.

We must go beyond
these pairs of opposites.

As we evolve closer and closer
to Homo Spiritus,

we become attracted to that
which is benign.

We increase in sensitivity.

We think a kind thought
for all the world.

Because unity
is compassion for all things.

It's a more powerful level
of consciousness,

because one's conscious level
is more consistent

with every expression of life.

Humanity is more than a unity.

It is a complete unit.

And combined
with all conscious life,

all earthlings, all beings,
it is a great unit.

No one part or one unit

can be separated
from the whole.

Human,

animal,

or tree.

Not the same,
but equal.