Below are the synopsis, excerpts and author’s note of the published book, TRANSFORMING CONFLICT INTO HARMONY: The Answer to Your Lifelong Suffering. Complete version is available for free download at www.tcih.net

Synopsis

Is it possible to attain harmony regardless of external circumstances?

Yes, but it demands a radical change in attitude, diametrically opposite our usual one. We are deeply conditioned to believe that changing our circumstances can result in harmony, but that is impossible. External conflict is simply the result of inner, psychological conflict. Therefore, the only way to attain harmony is to neutralize our inner conflict.

Based on about thirty years of investigation, experimentation, verification and practice, this book primarily deals with the cause of inner conflict, our inner conditions engendered by inner conflict, and the principles to neutralize it.

Although scientific findings are cited to support many definite, specific and concrete statements, they need not be accepted without verification. Simple techniques, without using any equipment, to verify many of these statements are given. Hence, this is a pragmatic book—aimed at assisting the reader to neutralize inner conflict.

Beginning Chapters

OF CONFLICT

The frequency and intensity of war steadily increased from Roman times onward, and its destructive impact has escalated. Three quarters of all war deaths since the days of Julius Caesar have occurred in this century. The number of war-related deaths has risen from less than one million in the fifteenth century to some 110 million so far in this one, far outpacing the rate of population growth.

Michael Renner, “State of the World”, a 1993 report

GLOBAL CONFLICT

The entire world is awash with conflict. Though man, for eons, has clamored for harmony, conflict has not decreased. Instead, it has increased and has become more pervasive and subtle. War is simply a conspicuous conflict, hiding innumerable smaller conflicts waiting to explode later. In fact, war and these smaller conflicts are merely effects and relatively minor. They are caused by far more intense inner conflicts. If these inner conflicts are faced and neutralized as they arise, there will be no war, no Hitler. Hitler might even become Mother Teresa. If Saul the persecutor could become Paul the apostle, if Milarepa the mass murderer could become a most revered spiritual teacher, would it have been impossible for Hitler to become Mother Teresa?

Anyway, what could one man do? If Hitler was not inside the people of Germany, could they be so easily persuaded and manipulated to do what they did? In fact, Hitler is inside everybody. Which man, if he dares to look deeply within, will not find Hitler lurking inside him? If he did, however, he will also find Mother Teresa inside him.