The acceptation of our differences as a source of a potential enrichment rather than a source of conflict remain an ideal which is possible but difficult to attain. The obstacle lies in the very nature of mind.

Because when we approach the others with our intellect, our concepts and prejudices, our differences become a source of conflict.
Differences are unbearable for those whose master is their mind. They want to dictate at all costs their point of view and their own truth.

Mind leads an unceasing crusade against tolerance, against the others. It wants to evangelize, to colonize and to dominate physically, psychologically and even spiritually. Mind only knows that might is right.

Those who are led by their mind always want to impose their point of view on somebody and they go as far as to make laws and force the others to accept them. In fact, what mind really wants is to impose its own beliefs.

It is in the name of belief that one slanders, tortures, enslaves or murders.

Belief is the opposite of truth and even when you believe in something that is true, this doesn't make you the owner of this truth. In fact beliefs bring about an enormous gap between you and reality.
A belief is a supposition, an assumption ; truth is an experience, an experienced reality. And truth doesn't need any fight, it doesn't impose itself but is revealed to those who are willing to hear it.
Truth can be discovered and experienced unlike belief which belongs to imagination, superstition, concepts and phantasms only resorting to force and violence to impose itself.

For instance, if you believe in love, that obviously means that you have never experienced true love. Because the day when love shows in your life, belief soon fades out in front of knowledge. And then you don't believe any more - you simply know and enjoy love.
In other words when you believe, you can't know the truth.
Beliefs mean separation from reality because reality is beyond beliefs and suppositions.

Reality IS, that's all, and it doesn't need your approval to exist, as beliefs do.

The opinions, beliefs admitted by the majority have legitimated colonization, slavery and racial, cultural, religious and gender discrimination. And the list is not exhaustive… There are so many reasons to stop fighting with pipe dreams.

Fortunately, it is still possible to make another choice. We can consider differences as an opportunity to grow and blossom. So if we approach others with our heart first rather than with the intellect, then our differences will attract each other and then we will be thirsty for partake and exchange. Then we will be willing to discover what is marvellous in the other person and to really and mutually get enriched from our differences.

This is the way we understand that the world in its rich diversity is beauty, and that beauty doesn't belong to anyone but every one is a little part of it. That the beauty of this world lies precisely in its wide variety.

And tolerance is the only way to really and mutually enrich each other. It is also the best way to free ourselves from beliefs in order to attain knowledge one day.

We also realize that we must abandon the erroneous idea that it is possible to reach Truth through mind. Truth can be attained only through our awakening conscience.

At this stage, we understand that differences exist only at the surface of our being as waves which unceasingly go over and over. Their beauty or their wickedness is simply a matter of interpretation. A purely subjective look .

And when we stop identifying ourselves with the waves, we realize that in reality we are the ocean, the immutable sea. And that unity, Truth is hidden behind this apparent diversity. And we all are that.




Amedee