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Designing a Lasting World Peace Together.
(Translated to Esperanto)
Over the ages most people always desired to
live in a permanent state of peace; they prayed for it, imagined
it, worked for it continuously since time immemorial. Lasting
"Peace on Earth" is the goal of many religions and
philosophies.
The reason that, so far, no lasting peace in the world materialized
yet is due to our (sometimes great) differences in what we mean
when we say "peace on Earth". Since we do not have a unified,
common idea of the concept, "peace on Earth" can never happen.
Instead we always end up fighting for our version of
"peace", and we wonder why any lasting "Peace on Earth" never
really comes about.
Knowing that every time of peace in human history ended in a war,
what should "Peace on Earth" look like, so it would not result in a
war again?
Unless we can answer this question, we can never achieve real
"Peace on Earth".
We should learn how to imagine, in as much detail as possible, what
would constitute a real "Peace on Earth", and then, since we each
would have a different concept of the idea, we should learn how to
reconcile all our differences in order to arrive at a
unified idea of what "Peace on Earth" should be, because
only one version of by all shared reality can manifest at a time,
unless each of our versions were truly sustainable--more on this in
Universal Platform for
Developing Sustainable Earth Vision Co-operatively.
We have to ensure that our reality is one that would be accepted by
all of us who are to experience it--hence we have to first "design"
our common reality to be shared by all of us in models (or using
what-so-ever expedient means: "gedanken experiments", round-table
discussions, etc.); we have to see that we like it, and then we set
out to materialize it coherently together, cooperating closely and
enthusiastically.
Unifying and reconciling of all the different ideas that we might
have about the future of the Earth in a model (or using whatever
appropriate means), and then working towards this unified ideal
would prevent conflicts from happening in real life, since, after
all, wars happen because people go to war so that peace happens
their way.
So that we do indeed arrive at a reality that would be preferred by
all, we have to first see what it actually is that we,
collectively, want! Unless we can agree on what it is that we
collectively want, we would merely continue to strive for a reality
that we would like to experience individually--and this would, of
course, result in reconciling of our differences in real life, with
all the accompanying suffering that we are familiar with: social
and environmental degradation that happens only because we don't
agree on what should be the best for all of us. In other
words--instead of reconciling of our differences harmlessly in
models (or by using any other expedient means), we let our
differences to reconcile in real life causing real harm and
grief.
A wish:
May all differences, all controversies, conflicts, and all
complaints that there are among all of us who share this planet
be resolved harmlessly in meditations, prayers, models--using
what-so-ever wholesome, expedient, and appropriate means--to
benefit all beings, starting with all beings that there are here
and now in this world! May there be no one in this world who
would not benefit optimally!
May humans become fully ecologically and socially forever
transparently sustainable for their own good and for the benefit
of all beings!
Meditation:
Find, or imagine that there is, a mental space in which all the
ideas of what anyone might think that their future should look
like would be reconciled with each other, so that conflicts in
real life would be prevented from occurring.
Please dedicate your practice to the optimal benefit of all
beings of all three times and ten directions of space, starting
here and now on Earth.
Thank you, sincerely -
Mr. Jan Hearthstone - ModelEarth.Org
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If we, the people, were really sincere about having real Peace in
the world, we would use peaceful means to create Peace in the world
rather than rely on the military!
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