Is Peace Possible?

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there.” –Jalaluddin Rumi Violence and incidents of terrorism on the planet are escalating, making our inquiry into the question Is Peace Possible? timely and deeply compelling. Perhaps the best definition of peace we've ever heard is the one USM's Founder, John-Roger, has given: "Peace is the cessation of against-ness." Now, the way some people deal with definitions is to either agree or disagree with them. And usually if we agree, we decide that the definition is true; whereas if we disagree, it's untrue. This may seem a very neat and tidy system. The fact is that whether we agree or disagree with something is no indicator of its truth or falsehood. The way we like to deal with definitions is, as they say in Vermont about friends, we "got to see how they wear." We like to "try them on" and "see how well they fit" for us. In other words, we don't agree or disagree; we simply check it out and see how it works. Our reasoning goes like this: If we want to cease being in a state of against-ness, a good place to begin is finding a way of determining the degree to which we are in against-ness. There are only two places we know of to look for indicators. One is observing our outer behavior, our actions. The second is observing the thoughts and feelings we are experiencing. Further, doesn't it follow that what we do outwardly is almost totally determined by our inner reality? Wouldn't we...
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