Blessed are the Peacemakers

It is Sunday morning and this cottage is filled with a deep stillness for which I feel deeply blessed. I sit with pen in hand relaxing on the sette looking out at what are called the Iron mountains where it is told that the beautiful people, the Tuatha de Danaan first arrived in what would be called the land of Erin.

This week peace activists are getting shot by others who would protect what they consider to be their homeland from those they see as terrorists in the guise of peace makers.

I would that I, in the words of St. Francis of Assisi, “be an instrument of thy peace. The problem being that this I, this little me, am the very resistance to that harmony and instrumentation

I would that I become a peace activist but in so many ways the more I wish for this peace the more reactionary I become. In the greatest of mystical texts I am told that peacemakers will inherit the earth. This inheritance is not of the earth as something that I get but as the realisation of love in matter, love as mother, love as mother earth.

This prospective peacemaker knows (I have no intention of being arrogant in this respect) that most peace activists do not know and thus cannot live peace. Peace in the way I mean it here is not simply the absence of conflict but is a state of being that lives from the direct experience of Oneness.

The state of our world is the reflection of our collective inner relationship to life as we think it is to be lived. The primary conflict that contributes to this non-peace is the sense that we are individually separate. In this respect we are each and every one of us fundamentalists. The idea of separateness, living in a body in time and space is the idea of someone living in terror of non-existence. We ignore this aspect of life and thus we live in ignorance. We live in labels and concepts and false identification with nation state, with political affiliation, with race and any other label you care to name.

To be a peacemaker or rather a peace creator one needs to directly experience that peace that is beyond the dual nature of human existence. In each and every moment each and every one of us eats of the tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. Peace begins to start dropping slow when we learn to sustain ourselves from the Tree of Life.

This is radical peace activism. It at least understands the nature of duality and the process of activity and reactivity. It understands the law of cause and effect. It understands the nature of time and the nature of miracle – an event outside of time. Thus one becomes and instrument of peace as a radiant emptiness out of which radical Love in action arises. This does not change circumstances alone but changes ones relationship to ones brother. One recognises sacred unity at the heart of creation and thus one’s brother is not a separate being but a note played within the eternal.

I am a rather poor peace activist. I wish to be an instrument of peace but the notes I play are not in harmony with the universal song. I know when they are and I know that with intention this harmony radiates out beyond the limitation of time and space and impacts those who are open to receiving this unconditional harmonic.

It is the same effect that meditators have on crime in major cities when they raise the group consciousness of the collective. It is called morphic resonance. You begin to resonate peace without judgement and simply become a sound wave that invites other sound waves to resonate with it. It is the really great way of feeling attractive.

You can do this every day as a peace activist. This way you begin to clean up your internal oil spill that you project out into the world unto the other. You begin to expand borders, you begin to sense the peace that passeth beyond the duality of good and bad. You become you own little flotilla of infinite possibility.
Some will say that I have not lifted a hand to help those in need. However, without a mind in harmony with the Source action is often simply reaction and not the movement of Love in action. Peace activism is much needed. It is to be much respected. Radical peace activism is the deeper awareness of what creates disharmony in the first place – the primary sense of individuality and separateness from existence.

So I invite the willingness to become an instrument of thy peace and leave the plan of action to that still small voice within. Then I surrender my need to make it all alright. Behind the veil of separateness that is the major cause of brother fighting brother there is the deeper primacy of life as Oneness. This Oneness was never born and never dies. It creates for the joy of creation. To live in this primacy of Oneness is to be an instrument of they peace and to live as Love in action.

This is the vision of this peace activist who would be willing to be an instrument of thy peace.