Non violence is just an illusion created by thought

When you use a gesture or a harsh word to hurt others, is it not a form of violence? The catastrophic effect of this violence is war, which is the most brutal and unintelligent thing on earth. The war never solved a single problem for human beings, it multiplies the problems.

What do you do about the violence which is hidden inside yourself? Do you want to be a non-violent, for me non-violence is just an illusion created by cunning thought. An ideal is always an escape from the fact, non violence is just an idea it is not real. If I am trying to become non-violent I take time to become something, whenever time enters it is never ending time.

Is there any other way like, I look at myself my violence, my desires, my fears...etc attentively, and in that very observation there is an ending of those qualities. So real observation is the key for any psychological change, observation which is rational and sane. Like a scientist watching something through microscope, he has to be very careful because he has to prove it to others.

Can we observe our violent nature without the thought of becoming non-violent? See there is beauty in that observation, I am disinterested in non-violence, I don't have any value at all for it, as it is just an illusion created by thought, and the fact is violence. You can learn only from what you are now, not what you are going to become in future.

The ending of violence is not non-violence, it is dying to violence.

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