Fixation Divides People
Religion divides people.
Politics divides people.
Thinking divides people.
Self divides people.
So what unites people?
Unity is what we are – when we let go of our fixations.
The mind cannot unite people as we all think differently, and this is revealed in our words.
It is pure consciousness, present before the mind reveals its words, which unites.
When the ultimate truth of pure consciousness is realised, all fixations that distract serve as a reminder that they are being observed. That is the absolute unity, like a mirror and its reflection: mind is the reflection, while pure consciousness is the mirror.
If we fixate on the reflection (ideas and beliefs), we live in a dark confusion and cannot understand the source of clarity, which is pure consciousness beyond words. Consciousness is not created and does not create – it observes.
Pure consciousness comes first for, without this clarity, we wouldn’t see our thoughts, fixations, beliefs and self in action.
We do not have consciousness;
we are consciousness.
It is not something constructed.
It is eternal.
Fixation obscures clarity and causes division.
Clarity ends fixation and division.
BUDDHA IN THE MUD is a blog - a living book based on the Dzogchen teachings. Our teacher is life, and life is karma. We are all Buddhas in the mud of concepts. 
I’m not so sure it’s religion, politics, etc, that divides people. I think it’s just people themselves who will always cause division.
I’m definitely sure there is a cause
for every effect. Fixation or obsession is created by confusion about our reality.
People are governed by their likes, dislikes and ignorance, and evil knows this.
Confusion is perpetuated by belief. Belief is accepting an idea when there is no proof, just a play in the imagination.
This is how we are led by the nose, and why the world is in the state it is in now.
Belief can make us do extraordinary things, but it never ever looks within.
As long a people are encouraged to look out there and become over excited, they will never realise the wisdom within.
Tony