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"Also there are others who want to wipe out all forms of economic and scientific progress in order that the nations become more compliant to their rule," I said. "They call for an utterly deep reaching poverty, which they call an 'sustainable' environment. This means that they are out to break up Russia in any way they can, ideologically, politically, economically, and militarily if all else fails. They also want to break up China in the same way. Just imagine the arrogance of some of these people. Their agents in America recently told the Chinese that they are fully aware that China doesn't pose a threat to the US, because it doesn't have the capability to deliver its few nuclear weapons that far. But they also told China that if its economy continues to develop, China would become able to build such weapons systems some time in the future, that could then threaten America, and this they won't allow to happen. Therefore, in other words, China won't be allowed to develop, and if it does, it will be destroyed one way or another, just as the presently developed nations will be broken up into impotent microstates by any means possible. I am certain that the present holocaust is an integral element of these strategies. I just don't know the specifics, yet."
I told Jack that he shouldn't blame himself for not doing enough. I told him that he had been looking in the wrong place for causing change. He should have been aiming his efforts against the world's biggest empire, with the goal to disable it at its very core by pulling humanity out from under it. Anything else, no matter how intensively it might be carried out, will prove to be a waste of time and effort.
My speech seemed to help. Jack became calm during our long drawn out rest that should have been breakfast. As it was, nobody was hungry yet. While we talked, the sky before us had become brighter. We were flying east, toward the rising sun. We got back to the flight deck just before the sun emerged. Soon, a faint sliver of a fiery arc appeared over the glowing horizon.
"Jack maybe right too," said Orlando after a lengthy period of silence. He spoke while we watched the sun come up. Jack had gone to the back of the plane to be alone, to puzzle things out. Orlando said he remembered an allegory that was told to him by a Buddhist monk when he was a kid back home in Thailand. The monk had told him that he had searched through the wisdom of all the ages for the meaning of life, that he had traveled from temple to temple in search of the perfect knowledge that would open to him the door to the sublime. His journey ended in Java, in front of a stone carving of a goddess whose name was synonymous with 'Perfect Wisdom.' There the monk heard about an ancient story that was supposed to be true. A beggar had come before the carving of the same goddess wishing for the same thing, and also a rich man had come. However, the secret that both came to find could not be given to them. They were told that first; they would have to learn the meaning of the unknown. The goddess only revealed that there exists no door to a threshold to paradise. What they were seeking could never be found. Behind each threshold lies yet another door, the monk explained, which when opened, leads past another threshold to another door, and so forth without end. The monk explained that the only way they could tell whether they have crossed beyond a threshold and come closer to where the goddess stands, was in finding themselves to be able to do things they had never dreamed of being able to do before.
"Here the monk had asked the teller of the story why the story was about a rich man and a poor. The answer was that this was a clue for detecting the first threshold, and the easiest clue. "There is no threshold beyond which lies peace?" said Orlando. "If the Buddhist monk is right, there will be states and stages of consciousness that will become manifest by the masses of mankind becoming surprised at themselves for taking a stand on some issue greater than themselves. This stand will be a stand for a truth that they never imagined themselves as able to take. This is the only way we can know that we have touched a grain of truth. Obviously, both the rich man and the poor had their life encumbered with an outdated concept of living, based on too low a level of perception. He said the rich and the poor man were not opposites to each other. They both represented the same low-level perception that they were challenged to step beyond. They were challenged to leave their outdated concepts behind."
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