The Pax Ethica: The Gate To True Paradise
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The Pax Ethica: The Gate To True Paradise
Article Summary By Apollo Sage
The Pax Ethica is an ideal state of mind where true peace and paradise are found within rather than in external circumstances. It emphasizes virtue ethics, therapy, and harmony to achieve this state.
Key ideas include paradise as a mental state, inner strength over external control, virtue vs. vice, and the role of solitude and mental training.
A moral being achieves serenity through acceptance and self-discipline, while an immoral one remains trapped in suffering by trying to control what is beyond their reach.
True strength comes from shaping the mind, emphasizing critical thinking, self-reflection, and reducing artificial desires.
The article concludes that a harmonious world can be achieved by individuals mastering their own minds rather than imposing their will on others.
The Pax Ethica refers to an ideal state of mind that sees this world for the paradise it is. It is attainable using the 3 elements of virtue ethics, therapy, and harmony.
"Paradise" is not necessarily in a life after this life, and is not necessarily an external realm ideal for the mind. Rather, Paradise is an ideal state OF the mind.
The Pax Ethica is a state of mind belonging to the truly strong, the truly free, and the truly peaceful, in every place they are in. In war, in peace, in love, in complete isolation... the Pax Ethica is the key to the human mind's full rectification from vices, from stress, and from the vices of malice, hate and the temptation to inflict suffering on others.
According to the Tikkun Olam philosophy, paradise is already within this world. However, the weak mind conditions its own fabric of happiness on a tyranny of circumstance beyond its control.
In reality, the ability to heal our minds and hearts from vices, from excessive stress and from the desire to go to war with each other, is the true key for the mind's ability to see this world as the paradise it is.
No matter where one is, one's need to be rectified of all vices, from all stress and from all ill, is imperative for a life truly well lived, irrespective of the world around them.
As such, the inner world matters far far more than the external world, as the problem that stands in a truly peaceful world, lies in many human mind's inability to rectify their many flaws, for the greater good of humanity, and themselves.
With ego, with hubris, with pride, and with many other vices, many humans are truly blind, thinking they need to condition their mental wellbeing on a world beyond their control.
In reality, the most control we have, is on ourselves. Through a life of mental training, one can be rectified of many ills and many mental issues, which prevents them from seeing life in a more free way; in a way that makes them peaceful regardless of who they are or where they are.
The road too a calmer and even happier life, lies not in the world around us, but in the world within us.
The Pax Ethica is the peace of morality. It is a concept that describes a world where humans aspire to be truly moral, as the true way to peace and relaxation, allowing, over time, the acceptance of reality as it is.
The truly moral being is serene wherever he is, letting this world be as it is, while doing things without triggering anyone and themselves, too. The truly moral being is a product of the understanding that their mind is not peaceful, and that they condition their wellbeing on a world beyond their control.
The immoral being is unable to accept the idea that true peace is found from within, as well as an external world, being truly beyond their control. The moral being peacefully accepts that power is everything, but that true power lies not over others, but from within them.
Using the power of the mind, the moral being conditions his peace not on the external environment, but on themselves. The world around them matters less to them when, with the wisdom of virtue, one can shape their understanding of the world, in a way that does not give them grief or misery.
The moral being, using virtue, will have to look from within them, to find their own way to rectify their minds from a world beyond their control, and from the socially-engineered need to condition their lives on what is deemed normal and good.
In reality, everything is subjective. Reality is not as concrete as it is quantum, or the interplay between the world beyond the mind, and the mind itself.
The mind by itself isn't much of an enemy as a mind that fosters vice and not virtue. "Vice" refers to everything mental-wise that causes unnecessary suffering to oneself and to others. "Virtue" refers to everything mental-wise that lets reality be, without revolution.
This world is not peaceful because most humans are ignorant of the fact that they are able to shape their own mind, therefore, the way they see reality: through illusions.
The key to Pax Ethica is within the understanding that the mind does not need education, and does not need mentors, masters or teachers, as much as we are conditioned to believe. Instead, mentorship/teaching should stem from an inner need that is seen and cared for by the educator.
Rather, the road to Pax Ethica is within our inner strength, to let reality be as it is. The more people will let reality as it is, instead of fostering artificial needs that are a product of their own mind, the more peaceful their minds can be.
People often go to war and unnecessary rivalries because the idea that they are necessary is artificially made and is a product of social-engineering. Given that social-engineering easily reduces humans to resources, under the premise that they shouldn't act independently, is the key to much unnecessary human suffering. That is how de-humanization goes.
In reality, humans should not condition the world per their needs, but condition themselves.
In reality, the most important way to dictate, is the dictation of the mind. Peace can be attained not necessarily through the utter destruction of the mind, but rather in the ability to heal one's mind, which, then, can improve one's health condition.
Many illnesses are not just product of the external environment, but also a product of a reality unquestioned by the mind as prone to their subjective paradigm shifts.
Through practices such as catharsis, as invented by the great Aristotle, the mind can be relieved of much of its conscious and unconscious stress. The more stress is relieved using cathartic methods, the greater the wellbeing of a person can be.
Wellbeing is not just a product of the foods which we hunger for. No. Wellbeing also lies in the ability to relieve one's stress in moral ways, and not in ways that trigger further stress. Stress is to be reduced, period.
A world where humanity applies catharsis without causing itself harm, is a world truly rectified.
War, the intentional infliction of misery on others, and the false ideology that this world needs to be conditioned per one's own dictations, is the product of vice.
On the other hand, a world whose humanity lets go of each other to be as they are, a world whose humanity depends its peace on the power within them, is a humanity that has transformed vice from virtue.
According to the Pax Ethica, true harmony can be attained by such shaping of the mind, in a way that fosters not suffering but the understanding and appreciation of morality.
The strong mind uses forgiveness, respect, study and artistry to navigate reality.
The weak mind uses guns and tanks, and the forces of others to shape reality according to their own idea of peace without necessarily succeeding in its application.
The strong mind is largely a hermit, to the point many of its needs are few, and its wants are even fewer than their needs.
The weak mind builds their lives around many wants and many needs.
The strong mind, when heartful, freely teaches humanity to be strong without deeming it fit to cater to other humans, instead letting humanity seek that mind's teachings.
The weak mind, when heartful, is blind to humanity's desire or lack of desire to be taught, instead fostering ways to educate humanity without asking it if needs to be educated. Instead, planting the delusion in humanity, that they must be educated.
No. Many human needs and wants are delusions of weakness. The truly strong is defined by its few ambitions and its few needs.
The more humans engineer their minds in ways that allow them to reduce their wants and needs, the greater peace they can attain, and thus, the less reason they may find to act, but instead, rest peacefully among the living (regardless of who the living are and what they do).
The true hermitage is that which should be found from within, no matter where one is.
The moral mind does not discard, but simply lets people decide for themselves, whether to be with them or not to be with such a mind.
The moral mind does not force. The moral mind studies and practices for its own development, to be free the vice of stress and many many other vices, which fuel their depravities, instead of weakening them, as it should be done.
The more depraved one is of virtue, the more they do, the more they suffer. The depraved but wise mind, develops itself in its own way, until is it depraved the least. And the source of all depravity, is weakness.
Weakness is not that of an ascetic but that of the bodybuilder validating its own ego on the fake support of fake followers. The ascetic leads per their wants and needs, which are few, and lets their followers be themselves, like they deserve for their own wellbeing.
Weakness is not that of an ascetic peacefully resting in bed, who rarely sees a reason to go out. Rather, weakness is that of those who saw reason to live a life of physical travel and exploration, as the key to their ignorance and their repressed misery.
The truly strong shapes their minds more often than the physical world. The truly weak shapes the physical world more than their minds.
Shaping one's mind depends not on others but on one's own solitude. It depends on the ability to foster critical thinking, and from recognizing perception as elementary to not only of reality, but of their health, as well.
Shaping one's mind stems from the acceptance that perception is a choice, and that the mind is the main thing, ideally, that one should control the most.
With this understanding, the strong mind, seeking strength, detaches itself from others, to lead a life of such mental training.
Solitude, as the school of the genius, is where the mind is formed, thus changed. The mind's experiences and consumed content, whether positive, negative or outright traumatic, are then used by the strong mind as data, used for its own shaping.
The more the mind is shaped, the stronger it can get, to the point that it deems no reason to interfere with others beyond its reduced few wants and needs.
With the rectification of one's mind from illness of vice and psychological depravities, the mind accepts reality as it is no matter where that mind is.
And accepting reality for what it is, without the need to overexert oneself, is the end-goal of the Pax Ethica, with the road to its paradise, being a journey only the willing deserve to take.
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