| The overarching futility of the Whiteysphere, whether "Leftist" "Rightest" or "Centrist" all, stems from the simple fact that the unreality of the world can not be combatted successfully simply by introducing a different unreality to replace the one to which we object.
Until we become enlightened, ie perceive the truth, in a skillfully compassionate manner (h/t Lambert), the world is doomed to its ongoing, yet highly entertaining, bad acid trip.
The warriours against the secular west are not seeking enlightenment by killing innocent civilians any more than the "activist sympathisers" of those warriours are seeking enlightenment. The western warriours fighting against those warriours who kill innocent civilians in the attempt to incite more war in order to kill the warriours of the secular west are not seeking enlightenment.
Whether you label either side of this battle terrorists, warriours, killers, or murderers, the label itslef is not the issue. The reliance on labels merely enslaves us, and assures that we will remain tangled in our illusions of futility.
The spokesman for the nihilist who bombed the CIA base stated quite clearly through a contaminated interpretative source (h/t Rev):
On Wednesday, the operational leader of Al Qaeda in Afghanistan issued a statement praising the work of the suicide bomber, Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, and said that the Khost bombing, which also killed a Jordanian intelligence operative, was revenge for the killings of a number of top militant leaders in C.I.A. drone attacks.
"He detonated his fine, astonishing and well-designed explosive device, which was unseen by the eyes of those who do not believe in the hereafter," said the statement from the Qaeda leader, Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, which was translated by the SITE Intelligence Group an Israeli woman who says she found it on the internet.
--NYTimes 1/7/2009
This is not a defense of the CIA, the US, NATO or any of the secular west. The price people pay for going to war is that they may die.
The price we all pay for the ongoing bad acid trip of the unreal world is that we, too, shall die in futility.
These warriours against the secular west wish to kill you too, "Lefty," regardless of your vocal or tacit support for them. They are killing innocent civilians, too. Muslims have persecuted and killed other Muslims for centuries. The killing has increased during modern times. Christians, Jews, and atheists too have persecuted and killed other Christians, Jews, atheists and muslims for centuries. The killing has increased in modern times. It is now become a daily occurrence as the secular west and the warriours against the secular west do battle.
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Hindus and Buddhists. Ditto.
All are unreal, lacking the truth, the essence.
Simply because we are safe at home doesn't make the warriours against the secular west who kill innocent civilians any more real than the CIA agents/US troops who kill innocent civilians while seeking to kill the warriours who seek to kill the "unbelievers" of the secular west.
The salvation of the world has absolutely nothing to do with temporal morality, or right versus wrong. These values, which we have learned from our religious traditions, are also illusory, the product of an unreal world.
Buddha taught the pure truth in its essence: that the millions upon millions of causal factors which led to the world as we "know" it are in fact, unknowable. Thus, the world as we "know" it is also unknowable. The existence or non-existence of God, or a hereafter are unknowable and irrelevant.
Kill the illusion! Kill the Buddha! |
