The world is nothing but change.
Our life is nothing but perception.
Marcus Aurelius.

Killing is the most definitive thing available to man.
To humans in general and to men in particular.

We cannot create life!
We can make love, our wives can give birth but other than that…

Yet we can kill!

You see, most animals feed on other living organisms.
We describe the process as ‘the law of the jungle’ but for them it’s only natural. That’s how they feed. That’s how they get their sustenance.
None of them gives much thought about it. When hungry, they do what they have to do. And then they stop.

We are the ones who get to choose. To kill or not to kill…
We are the ones who, once aware, have introduced thinking into all these.
We are the ones who, through our awareness, have transformed sensation into perception.
We are the ones who, in our attempt to create/maintain congruence – to keep things together, have attached meaning to sensation.

We are the ones who, once we have learned the difference between good and bad, have invented the notion of evil.

We are the ones who, once we have learned the difference between good and bad, have tried to separate them.
To separate what we have perceived as good from what we have perceived as bad. And called it evil…

And now, that we’ve reached the stage where we currently are, we’ve set our minds to determine which had come first.
The egg or the chicken…
The Good or the Bad?!?
Matter or Spirit?

When we’ll grow up, when we will have caught up with Marcus Aurelius, we’ll remember that there’s no clapping with one hand.
That while it may be natural to feed on other animals, there’s no escaping the consequences of our killings.