Conflicts aren’t Real: The Parasitic Concept of Opposition

There are no Conflicts

The so-called conflicts you’ve read about in history books or experienced with the people around you are merely unfoldings of what is.

Conflicts have no ontological weight.

Opponents also do not exist.

Conflicts only exist internally.

Holding on to internal conflicts — seeing parts of unfolding as “conflict” — only weakens your own externalization. You will act in reaction to an opponent. By making an opponent out of someone, you attribute importance to them. You then depend on them to orient yourself, unconsciously stopping yourself from ending the conflict through the complete dissolution of the dialectic.


Beyond the Illusion of Opposition

Do not think I am endorsing conflict avoidance. By acknowledging the unreality of conflicts, you avoid nothing. To someone who considers you an opponent, you will be an impossible challenge. There are no arguments when you are not bound by the unwritten rule that you must obey the other if you lose. You cannot obey another when you are in alignment. At most, you have coincidental compliance — a result of situational resonance.

There is no possibility of defeat. How can there be when you aren’t attached to a particular outcome? You have no loss to fear. There is nothing to lose when you know you have nothing — you never did and never will.

There is no defeat when you see that victory is irrelevant. It’s not about winning; it’s about staying in alignment despite the circumstances. Let the audience relish in their choice of victor. Do not let their cheers or jeers steer you away from alignment. Accept what comes as an inevitability and have faith that it is right.


The Dissolution of Circumstance

There is no conflict — it is just circumstance, no different nor separate from any other event.

Stay in alignment and allow what is to unfold.


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