The Consciousness to go Beyond Violence

During the current wave of violence exploding into our lives with fiery gusts of anger,  most of us have become engulfed with fits of anger and disgust. We feel personally challenged by what's happening in our society.

It makes us feel like we're being personally drawn into an unwanted war of right and wrong behavior. This barbaric epidemic of violence threatens us to the point where we feel responsible for what's happening.

Those of us who are asleep in the darkness of our beliefs and values find it difficult to believe that we're somehow responsible for this nightmare. We're unable to recognize how our beliefs and values contribute to the collective beliefs and values of our society.

Many of us have forgotten how we inoculated our minds with massive dosages of denial when the media gave us sanitized, seemingly unrelated to us personally, but nevertheless reports on wide-spread violence in our inner-cities. . We can try to deny our moral culpability in what's happening in our society, but apparently our awareness-of-being places us directly in it.

Similarly, the violence we're witnessing now causes us to choose sides on the virtues of right and wrong actions. We make these choices based on our awareness-of-being, or our belonging to a certain group (race, religion, social, and so on) drowning in its own toxic beliefs and values.

Nevertheless, whichever side we choose, we cannot escape from our awareness-of-being that defines us by our beliefs and values. In other words, we think the way we do about the violence according to how we have conditioned our minds to accept toxic beliefs and values.

In times like the ones we're living in now, we must remain mindful that we interpret outside activities according to our beliefs and values. And most importantly that most of us have "bought into" the societal labels used to define our awareness-of being.

This conditioning of our minds limits our power to perceive life without the toxic distortions created by our beliefs and values. Fortunately, we have the power to change our beliefs and values and enlighten ourselves to go beyond violence.

Whenever we condone violence of any kind, it means we have moved further away from our Powers of Mind. And by doing so immersed ourselves in perspectives of powerlessness.

For us to change our participation, awareness or unawareness -- we must create a new violence-free perspective.  This awareness-of-being doesn't draw its sustenance from the collective consciousness of our society. It is our Powers of Mind consciousness, which is the  beginning and ending of all consciousness.


When we decide to create a new, violence-free perspective, we will clearly know that the power to change exists solely within our Powers of Mind. This is the level of awareness that allows the slave (powerless person) to become the master (enlightened Sage) of his or her own consciousness.

The consciousness beyond violence is found in our Powers of Mind. This source of power is always available for our use, regardless of what's happening around us.



Our beliefs and values define our reality.