7.2.4 What can the ordinary person do to reduce the possibility of a nuclear holocaust?

Our capacity to devastate ourselves and our world, through the use of nuclear power, is the clearest available indicator of widespread cultural ignorance that this is that. Our political, military, commercial and industrial systems are organised, directed and run by profoundly unenlightened men and women. We are reliant on political leaders whose mandates are invariably based on the promotion of divisive and factional self-interest.

Our leaders are not to be blamed for this fragmented and dangerous state of affairs. They are washed here and there by the enormous currents of negative karma sweeping across our ignorant and suffering world. Lacking any coherent framework or strategy, they stumble from crisis to crisis.

The intense world-suffering characteristic of late-twentieth century life will cease when the negative karma, accumulated over centuries and coming to fruition in our time, is neutralised. Negative karma on a global scale can only be neutralised, or rendered inactive, by the sustained and committed activity and efforts of enlightened, and relatively enlightened, people. As a result of the progress you have made along the path to enlightenment, you are now able to make a significant contribution to the world-healing process: the process of neutralizing negative karma.

There is an activity which you can undertake, on your own initiative, to neutralise the world’s accumulated negative karma. You can also teach it to, and engage in this activity with, any number of other people. The minimum requirement to participate successfully in this activity of world-healing is that the participant must have attained the first or psychological stage of enlightenment.

You must be very patient, and have great faith, when undertaking this activity of world healing. It will take the sustained effort of many people in many countries to neutralize the huge amounts of negative karma threatening to devastate our world. It will only happen if you, and all the other people released into or towards enlightenment by fully developed models of reality, proceed with selfless dedication, detachment and commitment.

The causes of the abiding late-twentieth century fear of nuclear holocaust can be healed by the sustained practice of the world-healing meditation taught at the end of this chapter. The practice of this meditation by you is a significant and important contribution to world peace. Undertaken with humility and faith in its effectiveness, it will, in time, bring about a cessation of the profound disharmony expressing itself as the potential for nuclear devastation.