Unveiling Our Shared Humanity: Why Israelis and Palestinians Are Identical.

Unveiling Our Shared Humanity.

 

Our five senses tell us we're different persons, but is this a valid experience or are our senses deceiving us and we haven't recognized it yet? A simple analysis of our nature reveals a surprising twist with countless benefits to all.

If each of us was a different person, in the way we experience each other and believe it to be true, each of us would have to possess a unique permanent essence (self). 

This means each of us would have to be one unchanging entity, not a product of something else, and exist as a person, Israeli or Palestinian without the mind's label of "person", "Israeli", "Palestinian", etc.

1. Is any person one entity?

Despite what we believe, people aren't a single, unchanging thing. Our bodies and minds are like puzzles made of countless ever-changing parts and moments of mind. None of these atoms or mind events are a standalone entity; they're made up of ever smaller parts and ever shorter mind moments, always in flux, changing and evolving. 

2. Is the body one unique permanent thing?

Your DNA and body aren't a singular, unchanging entity. It's a mix of various atoms constantly in motion—like a dance of carbon, nitrogen, calcium, oxygen, phosphorous, hydrogen, adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine, and others. Today, these elements you call "my body", but they're the same elements that produced the first cells almost 4 billion years ago. They were the DNA and bodies of countless other plants animals, and people since then and before you. They're not yours or theirs, they are the continuum of the whole of nature constantly recycling these parts and pursuing life from one form to the next. The shape may change but the essence does not. The body or its parts are not a standalone, unchanging "you."

3. Is the mind one permanent and unchanging moment?

The mind isn't a fixed, unchanging entity. Each moment of perception, feeling, and thought is a product of countless shorter moments, forming a continuous flow of consciousness. Each moment no matter how short or long is a product of the one before it, and could not exist without it. So, the mind and every moment of it is not a standalone, unchanging "you".

And obviously, there's no single, unchanging "you" separate and unrelated from body or mind.

Conclusion:

In essence, every person's body is a collection of the same ever-changing parts, and the mind is a dynamic stream of consciousness. The label "person", "Israeli", "Palestinian", etc. are a handy way our minds categorize these parts, but without them, there's no unique, unchanging essence of Israeli or Palestinian. The belief that some people have a distinct, permanent Israeli, Palestinian essence without the label of "Israeli" or "Palestinian" is a misunderstanding; in reality, we're all part and the whole cosmic dance of elements. If we were to recognize these facts about ourselves that make us identical to everyone, we would recognize how incredibly beneficial this is. The bodies and minds we labeled "others", "enemies", "Israeli", and "Palestinian", have always been identical to what the mind labeled "me". There is no difference between anyone except in labels only. Problems, fears, and conflicts become meaningless and absurd, and we begin to recognize that any action against "others" is only an action against ourselves. We can see that universal justice and world peace are truly achievable today.

Even though our senses tell us we are separate and different selves, now we know with certainty that that is not a fact but an illusion. Like in a night dream, we meet all kinds of people and experience them as others, but when we wake up from the dream we realize this dream and the dreamer was our mind's creation. It's the same right now during the day, everyone shares the same essence, and no one is Israeli or Palestinian except in our minds label of "Israeli" or "Palestinian".  For more details please visit.

 
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Many thanks to Ngakpa Konchok Dorje Tsondon for his invaluable help with this text.




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