WHEN WILL IT END?

I want to share a simple story. It is an early story from the Bible concerning one young man killing his brother.  In the story, Cain and Able, the two brothers, are the offspring of the first man and woman on Earth, Adam and Eve. And Cain murdered Able.That is a big problem. In the first family it is told one of the sons kills the other. Terrible start. Omen for the future. We cannot forget what happened. What will happen next? 

What, may we ask, was going on? We may presume the two were close. That they observed each other through early childhood into manhood.They communicated. They were thinking. Observing, communicating, thinking: those three. We all can relate to that much because we are still doing them all the time. They shape our lives and our lives are not getting better. We have many such problems and they multiply.

I have a sister. We grew up very close in a small family of four. Our ages are just two years apart. Yet, many times did I hear my sister tell of a past event we both experienced and was shocked that she remembered it the way she did which was vastly different from my memory of the same event. And she told me a similar thing about my memories. So, even close relatives living together will have entirely different banks of memory stored in the brains. So it probably was for Cain and Able. Consider with me that our future, as we think about it, is shaped by projecting our memories of a past, limited as those memories are. So, we think backward and forward. Our computers can do it now. Humans are taught that the ability to think is going to save them. From what? Thinking and all the problems it causes is all. Notice it is the thinking that teaches us it is our most important ally. Is life but a joke?

Let us take a careful look at what was going on with Cain and Able that might have practical application for us today. Imagine some talk between the two. When they separate they each think about what the other has revealed by sounds and drawings and body language and gestures. They make judgments based on such. As do we today. They watch each other often. Notice similarities and differences. Make more judgments by thinking and form opinions about each other. In this manner did one brother reach the conclusion the other brother must be killed and he was the man to do it. 

Now is it time to notice the weight Cain placed upon his ability to think in order to follow through with his plan. It was so heavy in his brain that thinking was in fact who Cain was and to Cain his image of him put together  by thought  was Able. Simply put, Cain’s thinking killed the image he held in his brain through thinking of Able. Nothing has changed since the beginning. We still live the same way. We  make images, hate images, and kill them. We are taught in the schools of greatest influence all over the Earth that that is all we can do and we have to live with that and make up theories about an after life where we will be different to help us endure such a horrible world. Meanwhile, we go on improving weapons designed for the sole purpose of killing people and there is a huge, huge market for them, increasing.

It has been suggested ever since the time of the story of Cain and Able that there is another way to live…here…now. Up to now, it is largely ignored. People agree or disagree with it but go on killing and preparing to kill. Is it really easier than changing? 

Is thinking the best and only way to utilize the brain? Maybe thinking, being so undeniably limited, is only useful for tasks like matching socks or tying a tie properly, or remembering where the bathroom is. Perhaps the very worst way to use thinking is thinking about ourselves and others since we know how big the cosmos is and how limited is thinking. Could that be the actual problem? Should we and can we free our brains of problems to solve them. I mean absolutely end them. Yes. It has been done. Die to the memories of the past totally and enter the dimension called now and with a free, still brain see the whole picture at once. That is done by courageously deciding to do it. The courage arises the moment a person sees it must be done. What do you see, Brother? Sister?