The Age Of Hatred

This is said to be the age of the Kali Yuga, the age of conflict. Conflict breeds hatred. In the dictionary, hatred is defined as intense dislike. We can read all about this in the ‘news’ every day, and can experience it if we talk to others for too long :D, so this is the age of hatred.

As unenlightened beings, we don’t see eye to eye – we see I to I. 🙂

This I or ego is consciousness which is the cognisant aspect of the essence of mind, clinging to ideas which are memories and, in fact, illusions, as they do not actually exist now! This clinging is why we become so easily upset and emotional.

Hatred is being fostered and nourished to create division by anyone who wants to gain from the dislike, maybe because they feel superior. We can all see this if we look and identify cause and effect. Intense dislike is a belief in an imaginary I that is quick to judge others.

There are natural divisions in people – for example, men and women – who get along very well with one another but ‘something’ (a intense personal I) sticks a spanner in the works to create a vicious division. This is because likes (desire) and dislikes (aversion) lurk in the back of our minds … “I don’t want it this way, I want it that way.”

Intense desire has the same effect as intense aversion – they both unbalance our mind. Intense desire and aversion create the conflict and madness in the world (desire and aversion aren’t the same as knowing what is beneficial or harmful to the mind and body in the immediate moment now).

Awareness frees us.

Pure awareness is nothing other than pure consciousness.
It’s what we naturally are,
but we’re too busy judging others due to our preconceived memories.

All we have to do is notice what is taking place in our mind and why, and drop it. The effect of this is that self-obsession loses its grip – but emotions will return when we are unaware, as consciousness clings to an I again. 🙂

Becoming familiar with this frees us.

As meditation practitioners, we realise what is going on. The emotions of desire and aversion still arise, but we look to see if this is beneficial or detrimental to the present moment now. As we progress, realisation takes place and the very moment an emotion arises, the mind brightens to pure awareness. That is wisdom, and we regain sanity and the understanding of empathetic compassion.

Pure awareness isn’t pushing a belief system on to others.
It is merely the reminder of the immediate moment of pure consciousness,
before our chosen system of beliefs.

Pure consciousness isn’t created and never dies.
It has never changed throughout our life.

Of course, if we are stubborn-minded
and not bothered about such things,
then we are contributors to the conflict.