N.M. could have had our "war on drugs" in mind when he said this: "Punishment is but legalized crime. In a society built on prevention rather than retaliation, there would be very little crime. The few exceptions will be treated medically, as of unsound mind and body."
Do you hear this Drug Enforcement Agencies and Departments of Correction everywhere? How many more billions of dollars must be wasted before you will wake up to the facts? How many millions of you make your living in our "justice" system? Can truth or compassion survive profit in this world? Nah...
What is that elevator music in the background - ah! the Beatles!
What is that immutable truth in the background - ah! Advaita!
Om is the first note, the bass note
Open E emerging from silence
The first low, wide ripple
Consciousness arising
"All consciousness is consciousness of change. But the very perception of change - does it not necessitate a changeless background?" N.M.
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