The Philosophy of Nonviolence
I am not a philosopher.
The philosopher thinks about things.
It is an approach from the head.
My approach is that of not thinking.
It is just the opposite of
philosophize.
It is not about thinking about things or ideas
but with a clarity
what comes if you
put aside your thinking
when you see through silence
not by logic.
Seeing is not thinking.
The sun comes up there
if you think about it you miss it
because while you are about it
thinks
you go away from it.
You can think in terms of thinking
driving miles
and thoughts go faster
than anything else.
If you see the sunrise
one thing must be certain
that you do not think about it.
Only then can you see it.
Thinking becomes a veil over the eyes.
It gives its own color
his own idea on reality.
It does not allow reality to reach you
it imposes itself on reality
it is a deviation from reality.
That’s why no philosopher ever
was able to know the truth.
All the philosophers
have thought about the truth.
But thinking about the truth
is an impossibility.
Either you know it, or you do not know it.
If you know it
it is not necessary to think about it.
If you do not know it
how are you going to think about it?
A philosopher who thinks about the truth
is just a blind person
thinking about light.
If you have eyes
if you do not think about light, you see it.
Seeing is a completely different process
It is a by-product of meditation.
That’s why I would be mine
way of life never one
call philosophy
because it’s nothing with philosophy
has to do with.
You could call it filosia.
The word filo means love
sofie means wisdom
love for knowledge.
In filosia, ‘filo’
means the same as love
and “sia” means seeing: love
not for knowledge but for being
not for wisdom
but for an experienced.
So that’s the first thing
must be remembered.
Nonviolence is a philosophy
for Mahatma Gandhi
for me it is not a philosophy
it is a filosia.
I was always in that
fight with Gandhian
philosophers and thinkers.
Gandhi wrote in his autobiography
the title Experiments with the truth.
That is a complete absurdity
you can not experiment with truth
If you are quiet
is truth there is all its fullness
in all its glory.
And when you are not quiet
is truth absent.
If you are quiet
seems the truth
not as an object for you.
If you are quiet
you suddenly recognize
that you are the truth.
There is nothing to see.
The one who sees is what is seen
the observer is observed
that duality no longer exists.
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