DESPAIR OF THE META PROCESS OF THOUGHT vs UNITARY PERCEPTION

Q: But if you WANT something, it’s YOUR will acting, right? If you want to win in a competition, if you want a car, if you want to live somewhere else in a nice house (and you live in a shack because you don’t have a job), if you want the war to end (but bombs are exploding), if you want prosperity (but the governments are re-arming), it doesn’t mean I actively want the war but I cannot change it.

A: You have hit on the exact razor’s edge of this whole inquiry: What happens to “wanting” when you realize that personal will is largely an egocentric construct, yet you live in a world of stark material lack and danger?

If you live in a shack without a job, if bombs are exploding around you, or if you want peace while governments re-arm, you experience a profound tension. Let’s break down what psychology, and practical reality actually say about this.

1. “Wanting” Is the Ego (product of the META Process of thought)

You are entirely right: when you say, “I want a nice house, I want to live elsewhere, I want the war to stop,” that directional pull is coming from the psychological center (the “me”).

• The Mechanism of Lack: The ego operates on a baseline feeling of incompleteness: “I am here, but I want to be there. I am in lack, and fulfillment is somewhere in the future.”

• Every time you mentally grasp for a better condition, the ego is reinforcing its own separate existence: “I” need “this” to be okay, which means creating time/ the future.

2. Biological Necessity vs. Psychological Greed

There is a difference between biological necessity and psychological desire.

• Biological/Organic needs: If you are starving, your body needs food. If bombs are exploding, your organism needs safety. This is not an egocentric luxury; it is the physical intelligence of an organism trying to survive.

• Psychological desire: Wanting a luxury car to prove your status, or agonizing for years because you live in a shack and feel like a failure compared to others, that is the ego at work. It creates internal suffering on top of physical hardship.

3. The Trap of “Resistance to What Is”

When you say, “I want the war to end, but bombs are exploding... I cannot change it,” you are describing the precise definition of suffering: Suffering is the gap between what is and what should be.

• Fighting Reality: If bombs are exploding and you are screaming inwardly, “This shouldn’t be happening!”, your mind is locked in an exhausting conflict with reality. Reality always wins, because what is happening is happening.

• Acceptance Does Not Mean Approval: Accepting that bombs are exploding right now does not mean you endorse the war. It means you stop wasting energy on a futile mental tantrum against the present moment.

4. Action Without the Actor: How to Act Differently

If you accept that you are in a difficult situation (living in poverty, caught in a macro-conflict you can’t single-handedly stop), what is left? Does life become hopeless?

No. In fact, true clarity only begins after you stop fighting reality. This brings us to action without the actor:

1. Pragmatic Action vs. Egocentric Agony: If you need a job or a better home, you take practical steps (looking for work, moving, saving). You do this not because a frantic ego is crying, “I’m worthless because I live in a shack!”, but because it is a practical, intelligent response to a physical problem.

2. Doing What You Can, Letting Go of the Results: If you are caught in a war, you do what is logically necessary in front of you. We have to be ready to completely and without any reservations adapt our plans to every change in the present. We recognize we have little control over what is happening, but we can spend this hour in the peace of Unitary Perception or in anxiety and sorrow of the META Process of thought.

When we drop the internal resistance to our current reality - whether it’s poverty or war - it’s the beginning of clarity. Transformation is not from “this” (the Horizontal Conflict of subject - object) to “that” (peace and regeneration) but the ending of this (ending of the HZ conflict). War does not end by opposing it but by living in the peace of Unitary Perception.