Truth

 What is truth?

 It's said that the very spirit and being and the cause of all reality filled a human vessel around 2000 some odd years ago. According to a narrative there's this one more example of a seemingly endless supply of empire and armies running over poor people and tearing lives apart for the greater good. One more time a so called powerful man who would one day die of some disease or old age or another powerful man's sword walks up to this man who has no army but will soon be thought of as the very font of wisdom and life. Depending of course on what you believe.

So anyway this powerful dude. Let's call him Pilate since that's what the story calls him. He speaks to the highest born of all mankind who is the font of all wisdom and life. Let's call him Jesus since that's how his name translated into English.

 Pilate addresses Jesus and says "what is truth?" Then as the story goes he walks away. HE WALKS AWAY!

Talk about the human condition. We always walk away because the truth makes our head hurt. It's hard and complicated. So into the void left by Pilate and the complete absence of anything actually written by Jesus stepped theologians, philosophers and other jokers, kings and priests to assure us of the truth.

Now somewhere around 2000 years later we have more information and knowledge than ever. But we are no closer to wisdom and truth than Pilate was. 

According to certain writings around 2500 some odd years ago a Prince named Siddhartha left his palace for the first time. His father the king had sheltered him from the human condition. But upon seeing the poverty and suffering of the people Siddhartha who would become the Buddha left all worldly pleasures. He renounced his crown and lived a simple life gathering wisdom and seeking the release of human suffering.

So now here we are. The human race. What have we learned? Life is fleeting. There is something more precious than this fleeting life but we need to live this life to find it. 

There is one race called human and somehow we keep running over each other. Because we fear each other. So one group tells their group that the other group wants all their hard earned stuff. While the other group tells their group that the one group is responsible for all the hate and racism in the world so its okay to hate them.

Meanwhile the Pilates and kings of the world continue to use the newest generation for cannon foder and target practice while convincing them that they owe it to the political machine because their fathers were also blown apart and used by the powerful politicians and rulers.

Somewhere around the presidency of George W Bush I had a thought. The winds of war were once again blowing for god (little g because I don't think Big G condones it), flag and country. My thought was "we have been blowing other humans up for time out of mind but nothing has really ever changed." there is always another war. Another threat. Another reason for our youth to be broken, killed and cast aside for the cause of the rich rulers. So I thought:

"What if we're doing it wrong?"

Now just hear me out. What if most of the people we are told to hate are really just like us? They are working and striving to put bread on the table. They have their own inner, spiritual conscious life. They might have different ways but maybe they are still people and not just trash to be swept out of the way.

Anyway, as you tune in tonight to CNN, NewsMax, MSNBC and Fox News I just thought What if? What if that echo chamber describing white people, black people, religious people, atheist, gay people and all others isn't really completely accurate?

What would Jesus have said if Pilate had hit pause? What would have happened if Buddha's pop had of opened the kingdom's prosperity to everyone? What if there really is one eternal consciousness and we are all individual expressions of it United at our core being?

What would it look like? Just saying. Maybe we've been doing it wrong 

Peace.