What is Conflict?

A conflict is a pickle inside the Mind.

A pickle that one themselves harbor.

Most will not immediately accept this.

They will instead argue -

"Well, no, not always. Sometimes the conflict is because of the other"

The realization that they miss is that the "other" in the statement above

is in their own Mind.

The actual organism - other - is someone out in the world.

Take a minute to fully examine this -

You say the conflict is because of the other.

Where is this "other person"?

Outside or inside?

This is obvious - that person is outside you.

But where is the conflict?

Outside or inside?

It is not outside, or else it would not bother you.

The conflict is inside - in your Own Mind.

If the conflict is inside, how is the conflict because of the other?

Now this explanation may allow you to intellectually "understand" a conflict.

Or may even provide relief that the other is not causing you a conflict.

But unless and until you understand your conflicts,

you will not realize this.

You will not arrive at a visceral realization of a conflict -

which is the only thing that can make you immune from getting caught in them.

One may ask why do humans harbor these conflicts?

That is, why do they hold on to them?

The answer is simple.

Harboring the conflicts is one of their many, many "reasons" to need their Mind,

to cater to their personality - "them".

By holding on to conflicts, they protect and be themselves.

By holding on to conflicts, they escape - what needs to be done.

By holding on to conflicts, they reap pleasure - by distracting themselves.

But to their non-insistence, the most perilous consequence of harboring conflicts is this ...

By holding on to them they invite future conflicts.

For conflicts, in a way, are higher sentinels of the Mind.

Higher and more complex than "simple" sentinels like involuntary thought.

The "higher" the reliance, the "deeper" the existence into the Mind,

the farther away they will be from their essence - THEM.

What is the way out of such conflicts?

In most cases CLEARLY SEEING conflicts will resolve them.

For they will simply vanish in thin air.

In some cases, a conflict ends up in a chicken-and-egg situation.

In such cases, there is no other option but to dig deeper.

Deeper into one's needs, desires, expectations, and their reliance on the timeline

of yesterdays, today, and tomorrows.

Often the Truth about the matter will be found.

This will not immediately resolve the chicken-and-egg situation.

But it will make one thing obvious...

what needs to be done.

Thank you