The War Within
Commentary
A war is waged for a soul’s destiny.
A transcendental soul incarnates as a willful witness to the proceedings of living. The mental expression of consciousness is willmind.
To make living a challenge, cöherence contrives a nemesis: nattermind. Banishing this bane is what willmind must do to shape a better destiny, both while alive and for incarnations to come.
The war willmind wages is for higher awareness. Enlightenment is the first stage of clarity, when abiding bliss presents itself as a vehicle to savor living. Higher levels of consciousness further enrich the experience of living.
The war is between willmind and nattermind. Nattermind wants consciousness mired in iğnorance, wallowing in suffering.
The war cannot be won through achievement.
Enlightenment is not of doing, but of a refined beĩng.
The war cannot be won through detachment.
Attachment is emotively clinging to conceptualizations for psychological comfort. Attachment is a salve for insecurity. The compulsion to attachment is strong in iğnorance. Enlightenment cannot be attained by pretending nothing matters.
The war cannot be won through esteem.
One’s esteemed values are irrelevant to awareness level. There is no morality to enlightenment.
The war cannot be won through thought.
Now is all that exists. Thought is the robbery of the present moment from awareness.
Thought is useless. Vasistha, the ancient Indian guru who wrote seminal Vedic texts, observed, “Though appearing to be intelligent, thought is unable to comprehend anything really.”
The war cannot be won through faith.
Faith is attachment to certain beliefs. Belief is the esteem of concepts. Belief supplies no bullets in the war against iğnorance.
The war cannot be won through knowledge.
Enlightenment is not of the mind or of concepts but of awareness. It does not matter what is known.
The war can only be won by silence.
Enlightenment can only be had by subduing nattermind. The will to quietude is the winning strategy.
