Ideas Separate People

It’s obvious that ideas separate people, but we still cling to our ideas.
Why?

It’s a habit, and it’s wilful – this is me, that’s you – so we appear to different, while in essence we’re not. We all hold on to our ideas because of a subtle fear of being misunderstood.

As long as we hold on to ideas – political, religious, scientific, cultural, racial, social – we take sides, and therefore, we see others as not like us, even if they’re interested in the same subjects as us.

What actually unites us is pure awareness, which is always present before our ideas. but which we ignore. It is this subtle ignorance that causes the conflicts in the world.

Once we cling to an idea about life, we fossilise our self image – this is me, that’s you. Realising what we are is an extremely rare event, where we’re always seeing things afresh. There are no mechanical replies. We ask,“What is this reaction ..?”

In realisation, there is a constant assimilation – an absorption and integration in the process of becoming one with whatever appears. 

The light of clarity acknowledges the darkness;
the darkness reminds the light of our true reality.

The light is the clarity of pure awareness.