If I live in mindfulness and I look deeply into the nature of this glass, I can see the sun, the trees, the clouds, the breath of a child. It's all here in this glass, but I am not this glass. During my military training I was taught that I am not connected to anything, that everything is my enemy. They taught me to separate myself from the life force which is in all things and that the only objective in life is victory, to beat the enemy so that my ideology may win. Because my ideology is best.
Democracy is the best thing, the only way to live.
It is interesting to note how undemocratic the army is. I was trained to transform people into targets. Even the buildings were nothing but targets, they were no longer places that gave shelter to people, they were simply targets to be hit because they housed the enemy. Food was no longer nutrition for all living beings, it was what kept the enemy alive and therefore had to be destroyed. This is the nature of war.