Peace is "Happiness"

I believe that essentially we are seeking peace and not happiness. However, PEACE cannot be experienced individually or even through a "world" unless complete and absolute EQUALITY is the source or foundation.

We need to discard our varied and confusing concepts of "happiness" and "the pursuit of happiness" since there can be no EQUALITY through such thinking only more conflict. However, concepts of PEACE are not varied and I think we can all conceptualize PEACE as the absence of conflict. Even though we have levels of peace as well, we can ALL more adequately agree on the concept of PEACE then we can on our concepts of "happiness." In fact, I would advocate that "happines" does not exist and only peace can be known. Maybe it's time for a paradigm change?

I find integral theory to be an incredible monument to the power of the intellect. However, it is because of its failure to postulate theoretical formulations of EQUALITY that cause me to essentially find it useless in seeking PEACE. I think we can all agree that without PEACE, there can be no concepts of happiness (no matter how convoluted and variable our concepts of happiness are).

Unfortunately, the levels and degrees of AQAL "evolution" seems to negate equalizing humanity and instead overly addresses individual levels and tiers. Therefore, what begins as an excellent descriptor ot the evolving mind, regresses into the same type of theoretical differentiating that all other evolutionary theories advocate as truth. For integral spirituality, we all have the truth "within" yet some of us have more awareness of that and therefore, are more evolved, hence, EQUALITY suffers, thus peace is distantiated and essentially negated, once again.

Make no mistake, PEACE will never be realized except in a "reality" of absolute EQUALITY with no levels, stages or degrees. Absolute EQUALITY is absolute PEACE and thus, the Source/God we seek. The Christ/Buddha message focused on this absolute EQUALITY through the complete discarding of ALL our judgmental capacities (over time this message was polluted due to the need to judge heirarchies of an external reality). This is why the Christ message relied so heavily on non-judgment since PERFECT PEACE can only be realized through PERFECT EQUALITY.

Unless I see YOU as equal in every respect to me, with no differentiation or discrimination whatsoever, absolute PEACE cannot be experienced at all, whatsoever. All individual endeavors to attain transcendence are destined to fail in achieving Universal PEACE. The best we can attain individually, is in experiencing a "taste" of what that might be like. Hopefully, this taste of perfect equality, if experienced by many, will result in the evolution of absolute PEACE through absolute EQUALITY. Yet, the very moment we conceptualize (believe) a level or stage, etc, in any way, it's all finished and PEACE is lost to INEQUALITY, only because we SEE (believe) there are differences.

The reality of unified Oneness cannot be known through dis-unified perceptions, but only through the reduction of the conscious partitioning of differences. See beyond the dualistic threads that holds the fabric together and see the entire monistic garment of reality.