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I see much talk about Truth recently and that made me think…we make too much assumption talking about it as if we know what it is and that now we “just need to make that breakthrough and begin to live it”. Wrong. How did our conjectures become facts? You do not know what the Truth is until you realise it. Now you think you are saved and you are ready to fight for justice and for the weak and for Truth, but it is not what you think it is. The battleground of Truth is not in the mountains of Afghanistan or urban ghettos, it is not on the podiums and among the sterile community of scholars…
You can hold a gun, this magic wand of death, amidst dismantled bodies of your enemies, you can skillfully argue subtle points of philosophy in the learned seminars, but that is not where the battle is. The battle is in your mind and the battle is for your mind.First you have to learn how to see beyond your fears—subtle agents of defeat, sleeping cells of obedience… Each and every moment through the intricate maze of fears big and small, you are forced to manifest what you are told to. No matter how much you might think you are “on top of the game”, you are simply asleep in this battle and all your skill and all your heart and all your mind are misspent, used, stolen from you without your even noticing it. So do not flatter yourself, pretending not to belong to the “weak and the downtrodden”. Your mind energy is being harvested and used for the manufacturing of unTruth… I see your eyes every day—extinguished of life, following the bidding of the false masters, those wolves in sheep’s skins that “care not for their flock”… How long can you carry on this dream. Will you wake up at sixty next to a bedside table full of pills and a retirement check and maybe ask what happened or will you try to wake up now and take responsibility for the knowledge you have and fight? Enough talk. We have to start our ascent to the battlefield. But before even starting talking about war, we have to take control of the weapon we have lost—your mind. Let’s start simple. Try to notice what is happening around you. Next time you are on the metro, on the bus, walking down the street, watching TV—perhaps you can take a look around at the posters and the ads. Pick up imperatives you are bombarded with, faces that stare you down…No judgments. Just see what you are told to do and to see… In turn, I am not asking for much, just a little of your attention. We will talk more about this next time… |
