From conflict to cooperation?

[weareunity]

Hello all.

Is it possible to collectively get from conflict to cooperation?

If so, then

Is there a need to turn the possibility to reality?

Why?

How?

---amongst the many other questions which we may possibly ask/be confronted with.

Cheers. X

[Miss Hepburn]

Is it possible?
Of course...that's what Diplomats are for and the big business in Conflict Resolution books out there...
also it's what keeps Couple Therapists in business...resolving conflicts :)

[HITESH SHAH]

Is there a need to turn the possibility to reality?
it's dire need.

Why?
While conflict is not always bad and it too is required to protect / nurture /ameliorate good , the large part of life is enriched with co-operation. Further constructive bigger accomplishments are more a result of co-operation than conflicts .

How?
Knowing / improving / appreciating / following right spiritual learning which recognize life everywhere and accordingly respects life everywhere and the co-operation naturally follows. Of course that could be lot of further sub-teachings but this looks key to me .

[Goldcup7]

Yes, there is a human need to move from conflict to cooperation. There is also a universal need to move from conflict to cooperation. All in good time.

As well as a need, imo it is inevitable to move from conflict to cooperation. That is the path of the universe, to explore disharmony and return to harmony. This is the flow and interaction of opposites in the world. Conflict arises in a dense world where there are hardened edges, with limits that clash. Cooperation is the dissolving of limits and the return to oneness.

It is all a play of separateness in the world, whilst the reality of oneness remains as it is. How do we bring about this cooperation? By being the one that we are, recognising the oneness of all and sharing this understanding. We are one, no matter what appears to happen.

For humanity, and for each of our human selves, we need to be open, accepting, loving, kind, supportive, and helpful to others and the planet, no matter how different others may seem. Of course, caution is needed with humanity, so the barriers come up and cooperation stops. Those barriers need to come down slowly and carefully, whilst humanity slowly becomes less selfish.

[weareunity]

Hello all.

Should humanity as a whole be held responsible for the behaviour of a comparative few whose ambitions and methods of attempting to fulfill those ambitions both create conflict and also rely upon creating conflict?

This does not have to be an exercise in blame and judgemental fingerpointing, but simply the recognition of another doorway into the understanding of cause and effect. Imo

Cheers. X.

[Goldcup7]

No need for blaming or being held responsible. Conflict is inevitable in a dense hardened world.

The question reminds me of Eckhart Tolle's suggestion of there being Frequency Holders, souls that maintain a level of spiritual awareness in the world to keep the spiritual frequency of humanity at a certain level. Also there would be souls that bring the frequency down to darker denser levels, but at times souls that raise the frequency, by bringing light into the darkness and enlightening humanity.

[weareunity]

Hello Goldcup and all.

Thank you for contributing your opinion.

I am not able to comment regarding the thoughts and opinion of Eckhart Tolle or of other writers of philosophic/spiritual matters.

I do however find inspiration and example-- in accounts both historical and commonplace everyday, of love walking the walk-- and seek to follow in these footsteps.

I know many of us choose to travel likewise, often stumbling and often supporting one another.

Cheers. X.

[JustBe]

Originally Posted by weareunity

Hello all.

Is it possible to collectively get from conflict to cooperation?

Cheers. X

Be the change you wish to see.

Each of us, if we connect to our ‘piece’ within the whole, build our own union within. It might seem ‘not enough’ but collectively it is.

[JustBe]

Originally Posted by weareunity

Hello all.

Should humanity as a whole be held responsible for the behaviour of a comparative few

Cheers. X.

We are all in this together, so it makes sense all of us develop deeper understanding and awareness of all life as it is. Our personal responsibility is to meet ourselves as life. Many people believe the spiritual journey is about waking up to themselves, but we are waking up to all life as our own personal reflection.

[weareunity]

Hello JustBe and all.

A simple way of feeling to be a part of it all is to perceive existence as one inevitably interconnected inclusive interdependent process.

Each and everything which happens by whatever means and by whatever agency is connected in possibility through the web of cause and consequence. Bit like the example often quoted in which the process of the butterfly beating its wings has the possibility of either starting or adding to a chain of cause and consequence.

The magnitude of the effect of the " butterfly effect" may seem minutely tiny and to our minds perhaps so tiny as to be negligible -but that assessment is simply a reflection of ourselves being caught in the habit of assigning relative measure to events and occurrences.

The process of existence does not assign any such measure imo., and if so the terms massive and minute when applied to process are simply our minds measurement, not a validation nor contradiction of the functioning of the process of cause and consequence itself.

This seems like a difficult ( I am finding ) and perhaps unnecessary point to convey.

The importance of trying to make the point is that in doing so, in understanding so, we are enabled to realise imo that all which happens, including all that we cause to happen, --consciuosly or otherwise--and of whatever magnitude the consequence, connects us and all.

A simple perception really.--but not so easy to explain I am finding--(especially in this post which is itself an expansion of previous posts I have posted along the same line). --so please forgive shortcomings of this attempt at further explanation.



Cheers. X.