{"id":2631,"date":"2009-06-26T00:42:15","date_gmt":"2009-06-25T16:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=2631"},"modified":"2009-09-03T23:20:35","modified_gmt":"2009-09-03T15:20:35","slug":"will-peace-come-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2009\/06\/will-peace-come-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Peace Come to Me?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Right after Depeche Mode’s first single ‘Wrong’ (from the ‘Sounds of the Universe’ album), which sings of intense indignation to a disturbing video (see<\/span> https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2009\/04\/whats-wrong-with-wrong<\/a>) c<\/span>omes the second single – ‘Peace’. It is the polar opposite in style and emotion (See video at <\/span>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dnHLJK_4Q8U&<\/a>).<\/span> Arguably, it’s DM’s most uplifting and jubilant-sounding song since ‘Just Can’t Get Enough’! (See http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=RA-Lx9UDkro<\/a> for a video of their live performance 27 years ago!) I think ‘Peace’ marks a watershed of DM’s spiritual growth. They have come to make peace with themselves over the years despite the band’s turbulent history. E.g. Martin Gore, who writes most of the songs have given up alcohol and Dave Gahan, the lead singer, had given up drugs, which almost took his life. The band renown for their darkness is now less dark.<\/p>\n

The video of ‘Peace’ is one of their best made ones – with superb acting, shooting and a realistic storyline with a twist in the tale. It sent shivers down my spine, because I could identify with the angst of the character. Though the video’s poignant, it paradoxically sings of hope too. A young girl who was a soldier (presumably assigned to Iraq) returns to America(?) She is worn and weary, fretful of re-adjusting to life after war, because she has yet to make peace with her bloody experiences. Her obvious physical scar betrays a deeper wound within her mind. She feels out of place and struggles to live normally. She tried to escape from violence of gunfire in the warfield but tastes it in her hometown through thugs too. As subtle painful symmetry, the final scenes mirror the first. We become unsure if she left home in exasperation to join the war or returned from it in exasperation, if she returns to the war zone to find peace, or whether she returned from it to find peace. <\/span><\/p>\n

The video made me reflect on the Samsaric cycles of violence that we subject ourselves to, that we trap ourselves in. A scene showed her working in a restautant cutting meat. Though not killing per se, it is linked to the supply and demand for meat. As taught in Buddhism, violence is perpetuated not just by humans upon humans, but by humans upon animals too, who might be reborn as war-hungry humans. Thus is this world a violence haunted one.<\/span> If we do do not even make peace with helpless animals continually sent for slaughter, how can we truly make peace with one another? Let us now look at the lyrics of the song (with comments inserted between) –<\/p>\n

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Peace will come to me
\nPeace will come to me<\/span><\/p>\n

Comments: <\/strong>Will peace come to us, or do we go to peace?
\nPeace comes to us only when we make peace with ourselves (e.g. via meditation),
\nthough going to a peaceful place (e.g. a spiritual sanctuary) helps make this possible too. <\/span><\/p>\n

I’m leaving bitterness behind
\nThis time I’m cleaning up my mind
\nThere is no space for the regrets
\nI will remember to forget<\/span><\/p>\n

Comments: <\/strong>Wherever it is we leave, we should not leave with bitterness.
\nNow is always a good time to clean up, to purify our minds.
\nMake no space for regrets by repenting well,
\nbut without forgetting the lessons learnt.<\/span><\/p>\n

Just look at me
\nI am walking love incarnate
\nLook at the frequencies at which I vibrate
\nI’m going to light up the world<\/span><\/p>\n

Comments: <\/strong>Be the embodiment of loving-kindness
\nto make peace with ourselves and the world.
\nRadiate vibrations of loving-kindness to all directions
\nand light up the world with the torch of wisdom.<\/span><\/p>\n

Peace will come to me
\nPeace will come to me<\/span><\/p>\n

I’m leaving anger in the past
\nWith all the shadows that it caused
\nThere is a radar in my heart
\nI should have trusted from the start<\/span><\/p>\n

Comments: <\/strong>Leave all negative emotions behind and never look back.
\nWalk to the light to dispel their shadows.
\nListen to the heart of your heart,
\nwhich is Buddha-nature from the start.<\/span><\/p>\n

Just look at me
\nI am a living act of holiness
\nGiving all the positivity that I possess
\nI’m going to light up the world<\/span><\/p>\n

Comments:<\/strong> Be a sacred shining example of peace for all to emulate.
\nBe and give of nothing but positivity and purity.<\/span><\/p>\n

Peace will come to me
\nJust wait and see
\nPeace will come to me
\nIt’s meant to be
\nPeace will come to me
\nJust wait and see
\nPeace will come to me
\nIt’s inevitability<\/span><\/p>\n

Comments: <\/strong>Don’t just wait for peace to come;
\nfor it might take too long.
\nMake peace well and peace will truly be eventual.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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