Thinking is the separation and division of the world. It is synonymous and continuous with the ego-I, the self-sense and inherent in thought is judgment, evaluation, prejudice, and preference.

The heart embraces and welcomes. It does not divide or separate. Everything is dissolved in the heart, drowned in love and healing and forgiveness.

We have been trained in the ways of thought. Thinking is inherent and emphasized in our education, in the news media and entertainment, in our family relationships and professional lives. Thinking has been considered superior to feeling; intellect over emotions.

The self-sense or ego comes from a fundamental need or requirement of early life. That requirement is to become someone, an identifiable form or vehicle for the spirit and the soul through life. However, the vehicle becomes an end in itself. We are so proud and so attached to the vehicle we have forgotten what is it meant for and what it conveys.

The source of all violence and cruelty, war and conflict, meanness and greed, hate and blame is the self-identification. Without ego and self-identification we understand our deep resonance and connection with all creation -- the birds, the trees, animal life, and people of other nationalities, races, and religions. Without the fundamental self idea there is no division, no separation. Cultivated wisely and thoroughly, peace, cooperation, and tolerance can only come about through the deep understanding of ourselves beyond the vehicle state. The vehicle is merely the vehicle when the honored guest arrives in a vehicle you receive the guest considerately, with joy and welcome, with enquiries for their welfare and their present needs. You make them comfortable, you open your door, you set the table for refreshments. You do not merely clean their car!

What if humanity, each human individually, looked deeply into the creation of their ego-vehicle and explored thoroughly the conditions of early life through which their vehicle was a necessary construct for survival? What if each individual learned to forsake their sense of interpretation and thinking mind, evaluation and judging mind, and instead emphasized the heart, the well-spring of wholeness, well-being, and forgiveness, peace, tranquility, and contentment? What if instead of listening to politicians, church leaders, nationalistic factions, unrest and evil in the world, bigotry and prejudice, atrocities, and inhuman behavior, we withdrew to the very source of ourselves, one by one individually, and filled with a joyful responsibility for ourselves and the well/being of all others?

What if through relinquishing the self-sense we realized that we all are Consciousness, all God, all Satchitananda, Brahman, the Cosmic Buddha, the Great Spirit... with no separation, no division, no difference at all?

BLOG entry #27