"The object changes from one moment to the next, but the essence of the subject, pure observation, remains the same."

Thanks for your comments @valued-customer , and good catch on the house of cards statement, ‘Raze’ was most certainly intended. I believe that statement says it all.

It’s my view that we don’t change the system according its rules, on its chequered board. Violence and Machiavellia is their game nor ours. We need to choose our battles more wisely. We are love and agents of Dharma.

I don’t believe we would have much success trying to dismantle the system from within either, You cannot fix a problem using the same logic that created it. You fight fire with fire, and you have more fire. Resistance creates persistence.

We need to reinvent the game/art of war.

The system is like a badly behaved dog seeking attention. Doesn’t matter if its positive or negative attention, what matters is that it's getting attention. And our attachments are full of that attention.

Best we can do is exit the system and build decentralised, localised, parallel communities. Perhaps it will be the envy of those still caught in the matrix, and many would join and it would gain critical mass. Perhaps we are just here to save ourselves, just as others are here to save themselves.

Each one of our existential journeys is our own, everyone and everything else is already taken and spoken for.

Theres a difference between escaping existence and escaping Samsara - these are juxtaposing concepts. True existence for me is unification within the divine order and pure observation which is the Brahman mind, whereas Samsara is a product of our illusions and self-delusions, the indoctrination camp we’re fleeing. We are all expressions of the system in some way or another, when you examine our provenance in this phenomenal world, and just as the system needs to be destroyed so does the part of ourselves born from it. As stated earlier in the article, escaping Samsara is achieved by giving up our attachments, freeing ourselves from duality and realising unity with all living beings.

Our attachments to the New World Order, for example, breathe life into it, and the more attached we are, the more of a hold it has over our existential journeys.

But when we train the mind and see it for the illusion that it is, then we create some distance between those illusions and the etheral realms of existence we inhabit.

Our attachments to how we want the world to be - even if it's a utopian egalitarian vision, may resonate with us personally, but if we try and force our worldview onto others, what separates us from the parasites? We lead by shining a light that others may choose to follow or not.

The more attached we are to an outcome - for example being victorious, the more chance we have of suffering if we fail in our goal. But if we are not attached, it doesnt matter, nothing can touch us.

One of the big lessons in life for me is learning how to surrender, whatever that means. You cannot change events nor people, past nor future, we can only change ourselves. In surrendering even to the evils of this world, we have an opportunity to counter those evils from a place of balance and strength and virtue, rather than from a place where it is consuming us from the core and weakening our resolve.

“The object changes from one moment to the next, but the essence of the subject, pure observation, remains the same."

This is the detached mind - the seer, a pure witness. I suppose the first step to solving any problem is to step outside of it and with clarity, objectively evaluate what’s what. When confronting emotional or physical discomfort, the most successful adversary is the one who is the most detached from their anger and emotions.

The mind tricks us, the emotions have been brewed over a lifetime of trauma and interacton with the phenomenal world, and the Brahman mind requires detachment from that Monkey mind, in order to see the problem, understand the context, and navigate a path to salvation.

Who knows what greater designs are playing out during the Kali Yuga or New World Order. ‘Fate tests those whom she would exalt’ We have two choices - a mundane life in pursuit of worldly pleasures, or a warrior's life battling for dharma - we would probably choose the later. And in some distant place beyond the illusions of this one, we might even be thankful for the parasites who have shaken the tree and rattled us into battle.

I suppose in some way or another those caught in the crosshairs of this conflict have invited it - we choose it over being olivios, like the billions of people plodding along ascquescing to whats happening in blissful ignorance. To force the moment to a crisis is a beautiful thing, as is the clarity that ensues, and something needs to rise from the ashes of the old world, for as long as the old world burns first. Unfortunately we lack the perspective to see what lies beyond the pale, and what these events are here to teach us. But there is surely a greater plan playing out than we can possibly imagine.