The earth was bound to be destroyed, once humans stopped letting themselves die. The desire to live on in others was never a desire before, it was a consequence of death. Now, it is a tactic, a method to extend our ego into the soil as poison for others to eat and then heal from. Generations of people wanting to be remembered not solely by their loved ones but by the indifferent and those who hate. Instilled in both our family and strangers, love for life made war and it is our responsibility to bear in the form of a trauma.
Civilization built on the ideals of the past becomes our home and our history. To remember people we never knew, it plagues the possibility of fully knowing the people we do know. Fame is chased and we raise children to represent the ego of a dying man, the conditional love we are taught in our grief. But grief is supposed to be ours, and the dead are suppose to be the nutrients for your continued life. Which is why humans will inevitably destroy what was once sacred, the earth will not remember the fact we wanted to live.
Technological advancement is the beauty of the human’s love of life. The thought to use one thing to achieve another is rooted in our DNA. From using stones and bones to find more stones and bones, we have a history of creativity as our main tool. What we don’t have is the empathy necessary to see the pain of those who we’ve been forced to remember, who still knew to appreciate each day before their death. Written history is a tool we’ve made to leave our unrealized potential to the next generation but it gets covered up or destroyed by those who wish to whitewash their impact. We must have empathy for our historical humans who were fighting the same fight we are now, a fight against the ego of a dead man.
There is no need for us as humans to fear being forgotten when we are always remembered and reflected within each other’s consciousness. There is no reason for us to destroy a dark past when the ego of the dead will inevitably remind us all of the truth. There is no reason to live a life for or in spite of another person when this life is all you have. But if you feel limited by all you have, there is no wonder your thirst for more than you are given will become enflamed. There is no wonder you fear the truth of your subjugation of a sacred thing being revealed. There is no wonder you fear your reflection and therefore don’t like to be seen.
This is your self-hatred. The part of you you’re taught to hate. More accurately the part of you you’ve been told not to love, your life. This belief that your life is incomplete if you don’t make your parents proud, if you don’t make your grand-parents proud, if you don’t make your ancestors proud. Which turns into if you don’t make your wife’s parents proud, if you don’t make your boss’s parents proud, if you don’t make your kid’s parents proud. But at what point will you make yourself proud for you. This process of self-actualization is being robbed of humans the longer we stay on the hamster-wheel of never dying.
Finding peace within a finite lifetime does not need to be in the form you associate to peace. The reason being, your current definition of peace may not be your definition. Aside from our modern understanding of practices such as meditation and yoga or abstract concepts like world peace, most people do not understand what peace is because they do not understand unconditional love. But that is not their fault, as most people also have not had the chance to feel or recognize an encounter with unconditional love. This is once again, because of our resistance to death. A lot of people don’t know how to lead with love towards something or someone they perceive to have harmed them or something/someone they love (both conditionally and unconditionally).
However to execute this is unconditional love itself. To see the route of love in any situation and to act accordingly within those parameters. This does not mean that an unconditional lover cannot cause pain in another person or themselves. But it does mean that if pain is caused it is because of their love for another. It means to love all things, benefits and consequences, skills and flaws. It is forgiveness with resolve and it is freedom and purity. It is gratitude for life itself and acceptance for death itself.
For those who don’t accept this explanation of unconditional love, that is acceptable, but I do encourage you to ask yourself why you’re resistant to the description. For some it may be because it is not how they want it described which is the ego’s response. For some it may be because they harbour hate in their heart but still want to say they love unconditionally. For some it may be a third, or fourth option but I believe all skepticism or doubt is accepted in the face of a pained human race. However, before I start further explanation, there is one question I would ask you… Is it my love that is your war?