Spiritual reasons behind the war in Israel. Solutions.
Spiritual reasons behind the war in Israel and ideas how to resolve the historical conflict in the most harmonious way
Dear friends, in this article I would try to share with you my understanding of the spiritual reasons behind the current war in Israel, in the most simplest language, using straightforward words. I’ll end the article with ideas on how to resolve the conflict in the most harmonious way possible, based on my understanding of Falun Dafa teachings.
Falun Dafa teaches that everything in our world revolves around Falun Gong, as it is what is saving at the End Times. However, the Old Forces (old Gods of the Universes), specifically planned all kinds of events to draw the world’s people attention away from Falun Dafa and the ongoing persecution. They planned terrorist activities and wars.
Let’s take the present war in Israel. Benjamin Netanyahu receives direct advice from the Rabbinical union. Rabbis in turn are directly guided by Jewish deities, who tell them: “You must eliminate the seed of the Amalek”. They believe that Palestinians are the seed of the Amalek - an ancient tribe that attacked the Jews on their exile from Egypt. Perhaps indeed there is such a karmic relationship. However, Falun Dafa teaches that when the Universe reaches the last phase of it’s existence, no being is pure, and Gods are not pure either, they too deviate. And naturally their understanding of things also deviates.
“Eliminate the seed of the Amalek” - is something felt in the air here in Israel. I personally believe it is contributing to the indiscriminate genocide that is taking place in the Gaza region.
...“Is there any true God still there,
if the universe has lost its course?”
Master said:
“Cosmic Rogues, Your Days Are Numbered
Darkness blankets the sky,
And those once near are gone.
People look to the sky, and cry out:
“Is there any true God still there,
if the universe has lost its course?”
All will turn to dust if I don’t renew the Way,
Those not approved of will become ghastly ghosts.
When one day the renewal is done,
you will be made to dissolve without a trace.
September 30, 2006”
Master Li Hongzhi (Hong Yin V)
Falun Dafa teaches that mankind never had correct principles to guide it before and men always resolved problems through conquest and fighting - which are opposite from the nature of our Universe: Truth, Compassion, Forbearance. If people will continue fighting instead of resolving problems with Compassion and Forbearance, it can reach an extremely dangerous stage.
What exacerbates the situation is Palestine’s ties to the evil Chinese communist party. Falun Dafa teaches that behind the CCP stands an evil Red Demon, directly responsible for the persecution of Falun Dafa practitioners and the ruin of the sentient beings of the world. The Red Demon ruins traditional human culture and guides people to abandon moral code, traditions and kindness. Following the Evil Red Demon people start fighting with each other and fighting with Heaven. Falun Dafa teaches that people and nations who will cling to the evil communist party, will be eliminated during the great elimination process (which started already). Added in the mix is the extreme Islamic groups.
Falun Dafa teaches that a virtuous nation can’t be invaded as Universe's law will not permit it. I personally believe that if Palestinians will not feel joy in living (establishing a military rule in the Gaza region), they will not fear death and it means that the amount of terrorist's attacks and suicide bombers will only increase.
The rave party that was attacked, just think about what people do there: they partake in drugs and dance to electronic music. Falun Dafa teaches that Gods will not keep a chaotic world, the deviant, warped and modern things. Starting a war because a rave party was attacked… maybe Gods want those people eliminated as they ruin human traditional culture.
"...Some people’s minds have turned awfully bad, and they can no longer accept good things. Naturally, such people choose what is bad, evil, modern, or warped, and follow the old cosmos into oblivion. Only those who can be awakened, who can realize which life path they should be taking hereafter, and who understand what people have come to this world for-only these kinds of people can truly be saved."
https://en.minghui.org/html/articles/2011/9/15/128106.html
Falun Dafa teaches that Judaism (as a religion) is responsible for killing of Jesus and that Jews are still paying for it today! (quote below). I believe Jews were scattered around the world for that reason, and only recently allowed to come back. However, as a nation, we are still paying for it today. It means we need to endure what is owed, until the karma is payed off. However, instead of enduring, we go and kill so many people, generating new karma before paying for the old.
"...A god comes down to save people, yet humans crucify him-what a huge sin they have committed! They are still paying for it today."
https://falundafa.org/eng/eng/daohang_2.htm
Moving away from extreme thinking
Another thing I would like to address is extremist thinking. Falun Dafa teaches that the Red Demon stands behind the extreme thinking.
Neturei karma say that the state of Israel has no right for existence.
Palestinians want to claim the whole of land for themselves.
Jews say that Israel should belong to them solely.
Are not all those thoughts extreme? Is not there a way for peaceful coexistence? Why protecting armed Jews, who kill and forcefully take the land from Palestinians and are contributing to the moral decline of this place, something the government deems important? They kill and rob people, and you protect them because they are “Jews”?
So what should be done to resolve present situation? People usually try to find some external solution and there is this talk about two state solution, etc. Actually, the true problem lies with people’s hearts and morals. Then there is this talk about “Free Palestine”. People are blind to see that what makes them bound are their own attachments, selfishness, greed and pride and not the fences or geographical boundaries. A spiritually evolved person will feel free and at peace even behind prison bars.
The solution also lies in understanding that when the Universe deviates from its original nature, Gods too deviate. Instead of following the guidance of the old teachings calling for extermination of people of another ethnicity, perhaps governments could rely and study the teachings of Falun Dafa, the Great Law of the Universe, and base their decisions on those teachings.
In the article below I share some thoughts on the Alternative future for Israel, if the government will choose to take this course:
Alternative future for Israel
https://ozareniye.livejournal.com/141183.html
Below are quotes from Falun Dafa that I personally rely on to base my thoughts on the current conflict:
“Disciple: How is it that the old forces are still able to keep the world’s attention away from what’s happening in China?”
"Master: That’s how the old forces have arranged it. China is the stage around which everything in this world revolves. If you think about it-and I’ll give you a few simple examples-whenever something is happening in China, when a positive development is taking place, and other nations are about to put some pressure on China, problems come up somewhere else in the world, like with terrorists, religious extremists, or the conflict between Ukraine and Russia. But just think about it: nothing happens by chance. When the persecution of Dafa disciples was at its most severe point, the attention of the entire world would have been fixed on China if it weren’t for the other things that were happening. And that was when the Twin Towers in the U.S. were toppled. The terrorists were just out of control, and drew the world’s attention away. Nothing happens by chance.”
(“Fa Teaching at the 2015 West Coast Fa Conference”)
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“The Cataclysm
Though the Master may be in this world,
his powers range in the heavens above
Seeing a mortal body rectifying the Way,
divine and devil alike lose all reason
The Red Beast and meddlesome gods insult Dafa
Assuming a multitude of guises, these gods
are led along to their annihilation
Infinite is the sin of persecuting Dafa’s disciples
Change is unstoppable if divinely ordained
In the end times, the universe teems with fiends
Who shall fuel the flames that forge a world new
July 4, 2019”
(Hong Yin VI)
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“Seeing Reason
Dafa rings out across the lands,
stirring up dust
That gathers in a noisome cloud,
a band of ruffians, Communist
From the many firmaments above,
a miasma from corpses incinerated
descends
Shrouding the world in darkness,
an evil that knows no end
Amidst the universe’s destruction
how many are truly divine?
To interfere with the new world’s building
is a crime unpardonable
While the universe was first established
and still going strong
it conformed to the Way
But with decline came deviation:
selfishness began to hold sway
As the evil awaits elimination
at the end of time
How many can truly be saved
now that deliverance is offered?
While heaven and earth are all awry,
who can still see reason?
September 20, 2019”
(Hong Yin VI)
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When others treat us bad, what should we do?
"...This is why I have said that all of today’s mankind has come to this point with karma rolling on top of karma; besides sickness-karma, a person has other kinds of karma as well. So people have hardships, tribulations, and tensions in their lives. How could they only pursue happiness without paying for karma? People nowadays have so much karma that they are soaked in it, and they will encounter unpleasant things at any time and in any situation. Bad things await a person the moment he steps out the door. When there are disagreements, however, people do not endure them and fail to realize that they are paying off their karma from the past. If a person is not treated well by others, he will treat others even worse, thereby producing new karma before paying for the old. This makes society’s moral values decline daily, and everyone becomes enemies among one another. Many people cannot understand this: What’s happened to people today? What’s going on with today’s society? If mankind continues like this it will be extremely dangerous!"
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How to handle foreign invasions?
"...With regard to Shan [Compassion] alone, when it manifests in human society some everyday people who are attached to everyday people’s society might raise an ordinary human social question: “If everyone learned Dafa [Great Law] and practiced Shan, how would we handle foreign invasions or wars against us?” In fact, I have already said in Zhuan Falun that human society’s development is driven by the evolution of the cosmic climate. Are mankind’s wars accidental, then? A region with a lot of karma or a region where the people’s minds have become bad is bound to be unstable. If a nationality is to be truly virtuous, it must have little karma; it is certain there will be no wars against it. This is because the principles of Dafa prohibit it, as the nature of the universe governs everything. One doesn’t need to worry that a virtuous nation will be invaded. The nature of the universe-Dafa-is present everywhere and encompasses the entire cosmic body, from the macroscopic level to the microscopic level."
Master Li Hongzhi
https://falundafa.org/eng/eng/jjyz45.htm
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"For example, the victorious become kings, power is obtained through wars, the strong are heroes, and so on. In the eyes of the divine, none of these are righteous principles as power is obtained through killing and robbery. The universe and Gods are not like that, but in the human world, they are necessary and feasible since these are the principles in the human realm, which are the “opposite principles” when compared to the principles in the universe. Therefore, to return to heaven, one must follow the righteous principles to “cultivate” oneself."
https://en.minghui.org/html/articles/2023/1/21/206697.html
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"Human society never had true principles to guide it before, so man has not resolved his problems via shan [compassion]. Instead, man has always resolved things through fighting and conquest, and that has thus become man’s norm. If man wants to become divine and transcend the human state, then he must forsake that frame of mind and use compassion to resolve things.
Compassion is an enormous energy, the energy of righteous gods. The more compassion that is present, the greater this energy becomes, and it can disintegrate anything that is bad. This is something that has never been taught, be it by Shakyamuni or cultivators of the past. The greatest manifestation of shan is compassion, and it is an expression of tremendous energy. It can disintegrate all that is not right. And naturally, the power of your compassion will grow in proportion to your level, which is to say, it is determined by your cultivation level. The strength is determined by the height of one’s ultimate rank, for sure."
https://en.falundafa.org/eng/lectures/20090718L.html
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"Remaking Mankind
The reality known by human beings is an illusion created by their ignorant view of history’s development and by the empirical sciences. It is not the true manifestation of the great reality within the universe. Furthermore, the genuine reality is bound to bring about a new science and a new understanding. The laws and principles of the universe will appear again in the human world.
Human selfishness, greed, stupidity, and ignorance are interwoven with the goodness inherent in human nature, and humans are unknowingly creating everything they will have to bear; this is currently swallowing up society. Numerous social problems of various sorts are surfacing in the world and crises lurk everywhere. Yet humans do not know to find the causes within their own nature. After the degeneration of morality, humans are unable to see that the terrible human heart is the poisonous root of social problems, and so they always foolishly try to find the way out in social phenomena. As a result, human beings never realize that all the so-called “ways out” that they create for themselves are precisely them sealing themselves off. As such, there are even fewer ways out, and the new problems that follow are even worse. Thus, with much difficulty humans again find a tiny space and take new measures, thereby closing this remaining bit of space once again. As this repeats itself over a period of time, there is no room left and they can no longer find a way out, nor can they see the truth beyond the enclosed space. Human beings begin to suffer from all that they have created for themselves. This is the final way in which the universe eliminates lives.
The Lord of Buddhas, whose mercy is incredibly immense, has left the Buddha Fa to human beings. The universe is giving humans another opportunity, allowing the mighty Buddha Fa once again to reveal the universe’s actual reality to the human world, to wash away all filth and ignorance, and to use human language to recapture its brilliance and splendor. May you cherish it! The Buddha Fa is right in front of you.
Li Hongzhi
September 28, 1996 "
https://en.falundafa.org/eng/jjyz57.htm
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Pacify the External by Cultivating the Internal
If people do not value virtue, the world will be in great chaos and out of control; everyone will become enemies of one another and live without happiness. Living without happiness, they will not fear death. Lao Zi said, “If the populace doesn’t fear death, what good will it do to threaten them with death?” This is a great, imminent danger. A peaceful world is what people hope for. If at this point an excessive number of laws and decrees are created to secure stability, it will end up having the opposite effect. In order to solve this problem, virtue has to be cultivated around the world-only this way can the problem be fundamentally resolved. If officials are unselfish, the state will not be corrupt. If the population values self-cultivation and the nurturing of virtues, and if both officials and civilians alike exercise self-restraint in their minds, the whole nation will be stable and supported by the people. Being solid and stable, the nation will naturally intimidate foreign enemies and peace will thus reign under heaven. This is the work of a sage.
Li Hongzhi
January 5, 1996
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