How to deal with (without) danger?

Today there is no concept of more doubtful and vulnerable than the concept of security. And you can’t say that they do not pay attention to him. Around only talking about all kinds of security: personal, corporate, public, state, global ... Togo and look talk about the safety of the cosmos. But the more sophisticated the protection systems become, the more spectacular, and often effective, the actions of those who haches these systems, explodes, “neutralize” are. There is its own internal logic and its causes. Traditional, from the enlightenment of the New Age, the coming idea of ​​security is essentially metaphysical and formal. It serves an abstract “subject”, which “believes” the universal principles of thought and being, and therefore sees only itself in the world, looks into the world as in the mirror of its mind, which, of course, is pleasant and convenient, but hardly more visionary than the search for a lost purse under a street lamp. The mind, closed in itself, lives in the desert, not knowing how to distinguish a mirage from reality, much less open something new in its world. Safety for him is a manic internal need, but he is not able to distinguish a real threat, because he does not see anything “alien”, nothing ”. Moreover, he is not able to notice the impulse of violence, which is hidden in his narcissistic pose and manifests itself so painfully, among other things, in modern terrorism. Few people even confuse the fact that all this bustle around the security clearly contradicts the gospel commandment “not to take care of their souls” and, it seems, with the same frightening clarity confirms the prophecy of the AP. Paul that Paguba will comprehend people when they consider themselves safe.

Nothing prevents, however, to read dialectical clutch safety - danger in the reverse order. Then we will get no less fair and, moreover, a positive formula: "Where is the danger - there is salvation." (More precisely, as in the well-known line of Gelderlin , "the Savior observes there." ) This truth does not contradict common sense: everyone who at least once in his life has overcome the fear of mortal danger, knows that only at that moment he lived for real. It opens up with the opportunity to radically rethink the concept of security and to remove it not from the formalistics of metaphysical thinking, but directly from life experience - from a simple fact of being here and now. ” What is required for this? Quite a little: to open up to an inaccessible depth of the times lurking in every moment of a consciously living life. This "other security" appears, rather, as a "other" in danger. The ancient Chinese sage of Zhuang Tzu reveals her secret in brilliantly simple words: "Hide the world in the world - and he will have nowhere to the abyss." We willingly admit that the world consists of many elements and is therefore complicated. It is much more difficult to guess that the world is developing and that reality is already complicated . But, of course, for someone who “hid the world in the world” does not exist any separate secret world. He lives without support, opened by all the distance of the universe. He lives not by being, but by formation-the fact that here and now it is going on. In the end, it gives the prey and forever lasting event, in which the co-life of everything and everything is certified.

This security is notified not by the thought of being (in Greek, by increasing ), but by the openness of accomplishment ( Parisia ). The event that gives safety has no shape, does not grasp the thought, but only refracted into its own shadow, is clothed in a variable pattern of “current circumstances”. It requires to leave everything - but only to keep everything left. Anyone who gives everything to be free, free from worries. It is not superfluous to notice that the word "security" in the languages ​​of the Far Eastern peoples means literally "the fullness of peace."

The incredible truth - one of many - the Taoist Patriarch Lao Tzu says: "The baby will not bite toxic reptiles." Why is a defenseless baby in greater safety than a prudent adult husband? Is it because the baby looks quietly and joyfully into the world, unanimously trusting the source of life in himself? Nothing threatens the wise because he is always “not in himself” and means that he can contain everything. There is nothing more erroneous than to see here only empty dreams. Comprehension of such safety requires sensitive wakefulness of the spirit (i.e. attention to the limit of his experience, comprehending in itself "different") and makes no sense besides a specific, creative, morally justified work. This wisdom of the "completeness of peace" underlies the military strategy and political art of the Chinese, but only because it teaches humility , i.e. The ability to live in peace with the world. However, it is impossible, however, to confuse humility with complacency and even more self -deception. Once in Russia they knew that the power was a “humble thunderstorm” : like an elusive-sustainable impact of lightning, the power is present everywhere and nowhere, melting the act of collapse, some endless chain reaction of being, releasing colossal reserves of spiritual energy. They obeyed the wise ruler or strategist in the east without coercion because they blew the immense power of the chaos from them, a terrifying abyss of another one (the words of one root) gathered in them.

So, safety as a "completeness of peace" is equivalent to ... the limit of effectiveness! It is the beginning of an active and, moreover, giving strategic initiative. Since the event is the unity of infinite diversity, the strategic advantage is achieved through comprehending more and more subtle nuances of the situation, so that the knowledge of individual objects ultimately turns into an indescribable knowledge of the ubiquitous distinction. Wisdom is the ability to deal with any problem. Knowledge is a sword that dissects all identities, all mental amenities. The wise strategist acquires “proactive knowledge”, the ability to anticipate events, because for him there is only “Lightning of Genesis” - an eternally absent continuum of creative changes, and all phenomena are recognized by them as variations of one indescribable topic.

In the Chinese military canon of Sun-Tzu, an illustration of the secret effectiveness is the image of the mythical “snake from Mount Chanshan” , about which they said: “If you hit her on the head, she hits her tail; if you hit her tail, she beats her head; and if you hit it in the middle, it beats at the same time with her head and tail.” One must think, the image of the snake is not chosen by chance: it indicates the forever and evidence of a pure event that is “absent” at every moment in time, but makes up the sphere, the universal cycle of forces, where everything is replaced by everything else. The voidness of this continuum at each point of space-time is fraught with the ultimate fullness of the "world as a whole."

In the boundless perspective of such an environmental environment, everything in the world is equal and unrealistic. The wise strategist, according to Chinese performances, is held by the "axis of the great path" , permeating all the plans of being, and therefore is the "master of all oppositions" : he equally owns the present and missing, complete and empty, revealed and hidden. It acts in the "sphere" - a symbol of the infinity of the sky, avoiding confrontation, and therefore is free to take any form (correlated in the Chinese tradition with the Earth as the physical world). Since he himself determines how real or deceiving this or that form is, he provides himself with victory in any situation of strength. At the right moment, he strikes the most vulnerable, structural -forming point of the enemy’s position, which corresponds to the “void in the center”.

So, security is not so much an idea, a concept or a scheme as practice, accomplishment, the most effective action that leads all the others. "Completeness of peace" anticipates, prepares everything that happens in the world. It is inaccessible to individuals and societies who strive to determine and thereby limit, infringe themselves. Co -being with the world in unconditional security -event is to let go of your worries, freeing themselves from ghosts pursuing the suppressed psyche (and terrorism is the main ghost of our time). We are talking about the ability to predict everything freedom to be, to be in the compinity of all lives, to discover non-violent forms of self-expression.

In this way, there is a well -known security - I believe that healthy is a bit of utopianism. In reflection of another, the deepest roots of myth -making are exposed. This is not about an alternative, but rather about the adjustment of regulatory schemes or, better to say, about what is urgent in the present: about methane , "the revolution of the mind." The healers of the ailments of modern politics The idea of ​​security as an efforts of spiritual update recalls the need to previously be healed by yourself. As for the quality of public consciousness, it must make it a almost imperceptible, but in reality the epoch -making transition from the realistic fantasy of positivist knowledge to fantastic reality aesthetically liberated life.

The main problem of the enlightenment concept of politics is simply in its internal inadequacy: in any self-asserting community, self-awareness and reflection will be usurped by its smallest, simple cells. Therefore, in an extremely “conscious” society, everyone lives “for himself” and makes “its own policy”, and empty slogans remain the state. The power of terrorism today is precisely measured by this weakness of state power. The efforts of "experts" and "professionals", whoever they are, will not help here. The blindness of frenzied suicide terror is quite consistent with the blindness of the enlightenment society, taken as a whole. But the image of the “snakes from Mount Chanshan” indicates the political measurement of the mentioned coup in the mind: individual members of the society live under the sign of “oblivion”, the rest gained in “self-confusion”, while society as a whole has a spontaneous one, at the level of instinct of the genus , intuition of “an eternally curling thread of life” (another image of Lao Tzu ”(another image of Lao Tzu) felt

The all-seeing of the enlightened spirit is equivalent to non-vision of things. The unity of pure event is revealed in the incommensurability of thought and reality, internal and external. If the enlightenment policy is looking for the identity of concepts and things, then the enlightened policy is the wisdom of equalizing incomparable quantities. True power as the power of oblivion and at the same time of birth unity is scattered in the ocean of folk life. In it, the silence of the sky is refracted by an infinitely diverse polyphony of the earth. In the magical crystal of the co-being of politics and everyday life, the highest clarity of consciousness and everyday life-eating do not see each other-and are inseparable forever.

Children of yellow earth are not afraid of war, because they can play it. "American imperialism is a paper tiger" (Mao Zedong).