Great question that the band called “War” posed in their song hit, “Why can’t we be friends?”.
With so many different political, racial and economical stands in this world, the simple question appears to have a very complex answer. However, the answer is really not complex. The reason why there are so many different stands is simple, it’s because we live inside our minds.
All people, live inside their own, unique, mind world. Thus, everyone’s mind world is different from everyone else’s.
Every one of us began life, creating copies of the world on the day we were born. It is part of our human condition to do this. Our bodies are like cameras, taking pictures of everything we see, hear, taste, smell and hear and using these pictures to build our mind world; and we build it according to our own life experiences. There are no two minds alike.
Our mind worlds are such a complete copy of the world around us, that we don’t realize we are living in our own minds. We believe that we live in the real world, along with everybody else. But even the people with whom we interact each day are only copies of those people that we took into our minds.
The fact is that we each live alone in our own minds, separate from everyone else on the planet. Sounds a bit like Science Fiction, and yet, this is the simple reason why we can’t be friends with everyone around the globe. As long we are stuck living inside our own minds, living our lives out in our own separate mind worlds, it is not possible for us to truly, ever, live as One.
People are not only separated from each other but also separated from the real world. We are trapped inside our mind worlds and not able to experience the real world.
Luckily, we live in a time where there exists a meditation method that gives us a way to stop living in our mind world and start living in the real world.
The Universe has a Mind of consciousness and a Body of emptiness. All that is seen and unseen, springs from the Universe and It is the everlasting and never changing truth. Our own personal copy of the world, however, does not exist in the Universe. Our mind world exists only in our minds and is not truth.
If we all transformed, forsaking our own mind worlds for the Universe’ Mind, we would all live in the real world, together. With nothing separating us from each other, we would truly live as One and be friends with everyone around the world.
Irma Glass/ Austin Meditation