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The Deeper Wound

 

Deepak Chopra

 

As fate would have it, I was leaving New York on a jet flight that took off 45

minutes before the unthinkable happened. By the time we landed in

Detroit, chaos had broken out. When I grasped the fact that American

security had broken down so tragically, I couldn't respond at first. My

wife and son were also! in the air on separate flights, one to Los Angeles, one

to San Diego. My body went absolutely rigid with fear. All I could think about

was their safety, and it took several hours before I found out that their

flights had been diverted and both were safe.

 

Strangely, when the good news came, my body still felt that it had been hit by a

truck. Of its own accord it seemed to feel a far greater trauma that reached

out to the thousands who would not survive and the tens of

thousands who would survive only to live through months and years of hell.

And I asked myself, Why didn't I feel this way last week? Why didn't my

body go stiff during the bombing of Iraq or Bosnia? Around the world my

horror and worry are experienced every day. Mothers weep over horrendous

loss, civilians are bombed mercilessly, refugees are ripped from any sense of

home or homeland. Why did I not feel their anguish enough to call a

halt to it?

 

As we hear the calls for tightened American security and a fierce military

response to terrorism, it is obvious that none of us has any answers.

However, we feel compelled to ask some questions. Everything has a cause, so

we have to ask, What was the root cause of this evil? We must find out not

superficially but at the deepest level. There is no doubt that such evil is

alive all around the world and is even celebrated.

 

Does this evil grow from the suffering and anguish felt by people we don't know

and therefore ignore? Have they lived in this condition for a long

time? One assumes that whoever did this attack feels implacable hatred

for America. Why were we selected to be the focus of suffering around the

world?

 

All this hatred and anguish seems to have religion at its basis. Isn't

something terribly wrong when jihads and wars develop in the name of God?

Isn't God invoked with hatred in Ireland, Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan,

Israel, Palestine, and even among the intolerant sects of America? Can any

military response make the slightest difference in the underlying cause?

Is there not a deep wound at the heart of humanity?

 

If there is a deep wound, doesn't it affect everyone? When generations of

suffering respond with bombs, suicidal attacks, and biological warfare, who

first developed these weapons? Who sells them? Who gave birth to the

satanic technologies now being turned against us? If all of us are wounded, will

revenge work? Will punishment in any form toward anyone solve the wound or

aggravate it? Will an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, and limb for a limb,

leave us all blind, toothless and crippled?

 

Tribal warfare has been going on for two thousand years and has now been

magnified globally. Can tribal warfare be brought to an end? Is patriotism and

nationalism even relevant anymore, or is this another form of tribalism?

 

What are you and I as persons going to do about what is happening? Can we

afford to let the deeper wound fester any longer? Everyone is calling this an

attack on America, but is it not a rift in our collective soul? Isn't this an

attack on civilization from without that is also from within? When we have

secured our safety once more and cared for the wounded, after the period of

shock and mourning is over, it will be time for soul searching. I only hope that

these questions are confronted with the deepest spiritual intent. None of us

will feel safe again behind the shield of military might and stockpiled

arsenals. There can be no safety until the root cause is faced. In this moment

of shock I don't think anyone of us has the answers.

 

It is imperative that we pray and offer solace and help to each other. But if

you and I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against

anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the

world.

 

Love,

Deepak