Violence

There is an element of violence in most of us which has never been resolved, never been wiped away, so that we can live totally without violence. Not being able to be free of violence we have created the idea of its opposite, non-violence. Non-violence is non-fact. Violence is a fact. Non-violence does not exist except as an idea. What exists is “what is” is violence. It is like those people in India who say that they worship the idea of non-violence, they preach about it, talk about it, copy it- they are dealing with a non-fact, non-reality, with an illusion. What is a fact is violence, major of minor, but violence. When pursue non-violence, which is an illusion, which is not actuality, you are cultivating time. That is” I am violent, but I will be non-violent”. The “I will be” is time, which is the future, a future that has no reality; it is invented by thought as an opposite of violence. It is the postponement of violence that creates time. If there is an understanding and so the ending of violence, there is no psychological time.