CoachBri’s Blog

It was 2:15 AM and I suddenly awoke. I put on my shoes and jacket and entered into a warm November morning. It all seemed so strange – the night was dark warm and had the feeling of summer. As I left the confines of my house and entered onto the path between the tall trees, the stars became visible. It was a calm and still night and there was a profound silence. As I took the path to the driveway and then onto the road, I felt as if I was the intruder. I walked down the road for some time, just watching my own thoughts and how each one connected or had some type of feeling with it. I was amazed at my own mechanical state of thinking, watching how I was thinking and feeling and had so much residue of the past. I eventually came to the small town and sat in the silhouette of the street lamp. The small town had such a different feeling at night. Everything seemed so much smaller held in the canopy of darkness. A small amount of light that seemed to hold the town in place offered one a sense of certainty. I stayed there for several minutes and then took the road back to my house. As I walked across the property I made my way to the pond and sat down on the wooden bench overlooking the small pond. The fountain of the pond seemed to offer a gentleness as all moving water seems to. I leaned back on the bench, stretched out my arms and tilted my head to the heavens. I breathed the warm November air in deeply and felt that amidst silence all thought seemed to come to an end. I felt the rapture of every living thing around me. I felt the song of silence remove all thought and false security of the self. I watched the heavens move and the changing canopy of the trees as the sun peaked its head on the horizon.

In the last month or so people have been consumed by the Canadian election and now the American election. There are some people who are not interested at all and have become apathetic and I can relate to their apathy. The greed of the American economy created by deception and corruption has been fed more lies and deception by a massive bailout that in time will probably reach about $2 trillion. There is so much corruption within politics, economics, and religion. Such things have stupefied the brain. What is going on today has been going on since the dawn of time. Political, economic and religious revolt, one group trying to overthrow the other. This has been the history of humankind and every generation plays out the same sorrow, misfortune and corruption, thinking that they are going through it for the first time. We refuse to see that our brains are stupefied by beliefs. In America religious idealism in the name of Jesus and the common phrase of “God bless America” has stupefied the person’s brain. In the Eastern world the Muslims have the same fanaticism as the Christians, each pointing the finger at each other, creating conflict that eventually will lead to war. This has been the history of humankind and no political movement to the left or to the right will put humankind in a better position. Every president in the United States that has tried to govern with some sense of truth and principal has been assassinated. America is not the only country that has dealt with assassinations. But the fact remains, whether Obama or McCain become elected, the disorder, corruption and greed will continue. Whoever gets elected gets elected based on the favors for the money they’ve received to push their campaign.

In all religions the goal is to turn humanity in a different direction, a different course than we are presently on and no religion has been able to do it. Instead, it has created fanatical belief systems that people have been willing to kill for. Religion has become an instrument of war, claiming peace. Political and economic policy, however noble, will never change a human being. All throughout history everything has been tried to educate humankind toward a different movement that allows us to live together peacefully and satisfy our basic needs without preventing others from meeting and satisfying theirs. The failed system of communism has the intention of offering economic equality. But because of the external control psychology of human beings, we aren’t able to bring about economic equality because inwardly we are corrupt. Every ism, anti, philosophy or belief system that thought invents will never change humanity. The very nature of that philosophy or belief system is put together through the process of thinking which in itself is a mechanical and corrupt movement. Most human beings are caught in the web and the network of thinking. Thinking has become the dominant factor operating in human beings and everything that it creates is limited.

When you hear the Sarah Palins of the world discussing their stupefied belief system, they act as a mirror to see your own. Why can’t we set our belief systems aside and see clearly that if you have a strong belief in God, in the state, in politics, in your country or in economics, that belief is created by thinking? We want to be rescued by God and do things in the name of God, because we love that approach to life and then we are not responsible for what we do or think. Beliefs remove the power of doubt and skeptical thinking and it is only through doubt and skeptical thinking that human beings can begin to solve their internal problems. And then there are external problems. The movement to solve the external problems is the same position as communism. Communism tries to create the environment of the equality without first removing the poison that prevents equality. These are the internal forces created by thinking, such as agreed and self-centeredness.

Obama may be elected, although I do have my doubts, because the election will probably be fixed. America is a country that shoots its own presidents and then covers it up, as in the case of JFK, and will not open Pandora’s box and make those people responsible for the death of the Kennedys. In light of this mentality, how can we possibly expect of America to heal itself when lies and deception are more important than truth? America has become a nation of personal beliefs, based on a false religion of Christianity. Every time a person amounts to some good or has a sense of clarity or insight, we have been trained through our conditioning to connect that insight to some tradition or belief system we hold so dear. But the fact is people come upon goodness from insight and compassion, which is an internal intelligence because they have gotten their self-centeredness out of the way.

Throughout the world, America has been hated because they keep putting themselves in the position of telling other people what’s best for them and ramming down other people’s throats their identification with a piece of colored cloth called the flag. This is a sick form of motivation. Human beings, regardless of creed and colour are one organism, as all trees are one organism. Regardless of the type of tree, it is still a tree and it reaches its potential as all things in nature do, except human beings. Our minds have become mediocre because we are full of the things of thinking. We are not Republicans, Democrats, Liberals, Conservatives, and Communists. This is all a sign of our deep internal sickness because we have identified with the outside. We are one world, one people, and one planet. I have lots of good American friends and most of them see beyond the political organizing and don’t identify who they are with their flag.

Billions of years ago tribes warred over belief systems. Today those tribes are nations with just more sophisticated belief systems interwoven with instincts that have now given us the arrogance to destroy our planet or create genocide. When you think of Obama, who attends a Christian church regularly, and the Republicans call him a Muslim, and then you have McCain who they call a Christian who doesn’t attend church at all, this shows you how nuts and stupefied the American brain is. All beliefs stupefy the brain and that stupefaction brings about conflict. That conflict leads to division and war and that is an absolute fact. You have only to look at your daily life with your husband or wife or your children and see that conflict of belief is playing out – it happens on a personal scale so it’s happening on a global scale. The only way out of this stupefaction is to end one’s beliefs and set the thinking process in a safe place, which is dealing with technological things.

Where thinking creates the psychological entity of the self, that self will look for certainty and that certainty will be false. If any country invaded another country people within that country would rise up and protect their homes and fight for their life. But why is it that psychologically people come in, peddling their beliefs, religious political or otherwise, and we will fight to the death to maintain our psychological beliefs. We constantly give up our power to doubt and discriminate to some religious or political authority because we have become mediocre and complacent, fueled by our greed. We are addicted to the pleasure that thought brings and we have bought into the pleasure of thought and are paying an enormous price. Beliefs give us a great sense of pleasure but create unbelievable insecurity. Therefore our ability to discern, our ability to make our own decisions, or our ability not to decide, has been crippled because we have lost the capacity to listen. Listening now is simply listening through the content we have of the other’s content. This is sensory listening and that sensory listing is corrupt. To really listen is to set aside one’s prejudice, one’s content, so that through that listening the false can be perceived. Most of us are not interested in anything but maintaining our own pleasure. And until we began to look deeper into the structure of ourselves we will never change because we are the world that we have created – the mess is ours.

Coach bri