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    A Peace Walk in Nuremburg, Germany
    To Remember the Violence is not Enough
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    Daniel Sieben
    629 words
    Reflection on Peace Walk on September 11, 2009
    Eight years ago the responsibility for the act of violence on September 11, 2001 in New York was given to a person called “Osama Bin Laden. ” More than 60 years back the responsibility for the holocaust was given to a person called “Adolf Hitler”. We are progressing in the sense that we are moving from persons to groups which is a step closer to ourselves.
    Deeply understanding spirituality or modern science we can´t escape the fact that there is no other to blame beyond the projection of the mind. Separation in consciousness creates me and the other, man and nature, the inner and outer life. As an unavoidable consequence of the separation the feeling of fear arises, fear of the other. On top of this mental confusion, the self regards oneself as the victim of external events, actions and circumstances.
    It requires the support of the collective to enable single persons or groups of persons to commit massive acts of violence. Being aware of the collective responsibility as a German and passing old Nazi constructions during the Peacewalk in Nuremberg, a deep wish for healing and forgiveness has arisen, the question came up: “How can we collectively create a different world, a peaceful world?”
    Merely to remember the violence is not enough. That doesn´t change the collective pattern of living on the cost of the other. Fighting our own fear of the other, we try to defeat the other, to sacrifice them and to avoid being the victims ourselves.
    There is definitely a need for a positive collective cooperation. We really have a challenging task. The collective pattern of fighting and exploiting each other has gained such a force that it is turning our planet into a desert and graveyard. Can we forgive the past instead of repeating patterns of blame, guilt and destruction? Can we allow old wounds to heal that still affect actual conflicts? Can we overcome the separation and begin to cooperate and to collaborate for the preservation of life on our planet? The current mass destruction through the collective consciousness and lifestyle of our civilization is another act of brutal violence. Simultaneously this is our present chance to grow as human beings in consciousness, to start living together.
    Looking at ourselves and the planet, growth and consumption seem to fail as means for happiness. Power, possession, position and wealth don´t make people happier, in spite of the entire economic effort to prove that it should. Obviously we are just experiencing the constant dissatisfaction of the material pursuit of happiness. The exploitation of human life and natural resources by living on the cost of others, the sacrifice of freedom and independence by power and control has caused a miserable state of being for both parties, the exploiter as well as the exploited.
    I would be delighted if particularly Germans and Jewish created a healing partnership in the uplift of the collective consciousness. The most effective remedy for healing is love – love as our own relationship to every thought, every feeling and every action. Let there be love - love for oneself, love for the other, love for the human beings, love for the nature, love for the spirit, love for the matter, love for the inner life and love for the outer life!
    Maybe in this spirit we can start another Peacewalk next September 11th: Germans and Jews, Israelis and Palestinians, Christians and Muslims, Men and Women of Mother Earth, Sons and Daughters of the One Life.
    I would be glad to receive your response, especially from Israel.
    Daniel Sieben was an organiser of the peace walk.
    He is an independent economist
    and meditation teacher, Germany

    May all beings be free, without suffering, without dogmatism and in absolute non violence for every beings such as animals, humans, ghosts, hungry ghosts (petas), war beings (jealous beings) dogmatic beings, attached 2 senses/body/sensual /pleasure and pain/emotional joy and suffering beings, hell beingss ,not seeing mystics beings, not looking 4 eternity but impermanence beings, taking risks beings, not wanting to know beings, not loving themselves beings, not deeply inquiring the validity or not of budist emptiness of independant existence and dionysiac socratic theories of essence/ideas, not understanding self beings



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