Our history is one of struggle and conflict rising out of the need for power and strength. It is a history of hate and animosity. This happened because we didn’t let the farmer in us take over and lead us on to the path. If you don’t allow your True Self to shine through, you will always live in the midst of fear and darkness, in effect, allowing yourself to run around in the fields when the path was right there in front of you. And in darkness, you fall into the trap of self-serving emotions, eogtism, and complexes, Within this trap, it is impossible to develop understanding and sense of cooperation.
Hate has been building up for decades, centruries, and millennia, and we do not know when this will explode. It has almost been our birthrighgt to inherit the hates and prejudices that our ancestors held. This is the Original Sin. In the Bible, there are Cain and Abel. Who did Cain kill? His brother, Abel. They say all human beings descended from Cain. They say we have the blood of a murderer coursing through our veins. But we also have the blood of the saints running through our veins. We have the blood of the countelss enlightened ones, whether they are known or not, intermixing with Cain’s blood and giving us life.
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