July 24, 2025
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| Utagawa Hiroshige (歌川 広重) – Sudden Shower Over Shin-Ōhashi (新大橋) |
Thursday:
What is Radical Peace? | July 24, 2025
Radical peace means in its most primordial and instrumental form: the willing surrender to the forces of darkness, with the singular intention in mind of wrathful Bodhicitta. To show compassion is in this view to exorcise restraint, pacifism, and to allow for the contemporary order to fall in on itself, in its ever growing contradiction, and in the meantime to nurture your vital essence and to leave the willfully weak elements of society out to the predator; it is the insight that predators exist for and on behalf of the sacred in order to instill order within the creation for the men that have willfully embraced chaos are not deserving of compassion beyond the wrath – this is justice. Verily, the purpose of waging peace must be with the objective to allow evil to collapse in of itself, and to this end, within the material domain, this outlook can be described as radical peace, for making such a peace would seem contradictory to any man of high principles and pure character, but make no mistake about it: you should not waste your vitality as the man of ascendant rank on the material grievances among beasts. On many occasions in life, you must conclude peace with the man of better material circumstances, but this is only making peace with him in the most material sense, for peace in the material domain is not the same as peace in the transcendental arena, for after the material defeat you can and should engage in spiritual warfare against your opponent, and the best way to do this is to allow for your enemy to take himself out, without you ever having to shed a drop of sweat over him. Take the example of the runner: if the runner that is in the first place notices that he is about to fall behind the runner in the second place—the first runner is about the be overtaken—and the first runner notices an obstacle in his path, he can allow for the second runner to run ahead of him and not tell him about the obstacle, and if the second runner fails to notice the obstacle and runs straight into the wall, this enterprise can be concludes as an exercise in radical peace, for the first runner did not take out the second runner and he surely made peace with the fact that the second runner would get ahead of him with the object of final victory still in mind.
Another way of conceptualizing radical peace that goes beyond the mere material is the aforementioned concept of spiritual warfare: it would surely be better if the world was an ideal place in the many foolish dreams of the ideological and revolutionary elite, or at least that is what you have been made to think. You have been made to think that the worst thing possible would be to "allow" for defeat and that your body as a mere individual citizen, a part of the populist horde, is to be sacrificed for the greater good of the state, almost exclusively these days in the name of egalitarianism and democracy. Indeed, this is what modern man hails as heroism: the complete and absolute sacrifice for the material and for the instruments and the systems of the material; this is the function in modern societies of individual men, to be sacrificed for the material gain and the perpetual multiplication of materialism. But this is only to be expected in the era of the Kali Yuga, when the concept of a warrior culture and a warrior class has been so degraded and so politicized that it has been reduced to the plebeian exorcise of duty. Duty to who or what, and to what end? No such questions are allowed nor are they required by the humanist axiom, for it should be self-evident why any man should willingly sacrifice himself both bodily and spiritually to the ends of the material and the so-called "freedom" loving. Therefore in this context, it should stand quite clear why radical peace is viewed with suspicion and hatred and why it will invariably be labeled "weak", for modern man has no understanding of skillful means, beyond the misconceptions brought on by dense reactionarism, he only understands and respects the beast, the anti-man. Radical peace is an insight that must be acquired through discipline.
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| Mahakala (Protector of the Dharma) in Hindu and Buddhist mythology (महाकाल) |
"Then the Lord said to Cain, 'Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast? 7 If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.'" – Genesis 4, verse 8–7.
"The Lord said, 'What have you done? Listen! Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground. 11 Now you are under a curse and driven from the ground, which opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand. 12 When you work the ground, it will no longer yield its crops for you. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth.'" – Genesis 4, verse 10–12.
Verily, modern man has become the restless wanderer and his trade, his vocation, is whatever goes in the global merchant trade of evermore quantity and less and less quality. What but the offer of peace would seem more radical in the face of the dilapidated state of modern man? The Kali Yuga, the dark times, will come to an end and the beast will be defeated, but this will occur in the transcendental arena, for the material domain is the habitat of the beast and you cannot win against the beast in his own habitat. Let sin and greed teach the man of poor constitution to straighten his back, or let him fall into the fire of fury of the wrath, for he is responsible for his own decay. In other words: let the modern world, the ideas of the free floating individual man become the greatest weakness of the beast – accelerate the decay and embrace the doom for there will come a new time of rebirth.
Reginald Drax – July 24, 2025.
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