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A different point of view as regards violence
The weaker the man, the more brutal his weapons
Man naturally takes his arms if he feels weak and inferior. Strong men often show an impressive peacableness and gentleness. You as well are using your weapons only if you feel endangered, physically or psychically. There is nothing ‚evil‘ in it, it just shows that a man feels fear and anxiety. Therefore, the use of weapons just seems to be self-defence. Before a man takes his arms, the society has failed to see or simply neglected lots of signals of emergency. Those signals and signs are often seen too late, as the ability to feel has decreased during the last centuries. The same is true as regards man’s relation with nature. Man has always felt inferior to nature and therefore tried to master it. It would have been possible, but not in this way. And as he hasn’t been able to master nature, he began to destroy it. Then the same pattern was used for human relations. Most people are always in the state of war or at least of alarm. Under strained conditions a harmonic relation is not possible, neither to people nor to nature. I fear that the end will be inevitable if man continues like that: with death and decay.
Death and decay are in opposition to inspiration and transformation.
Transformation of violence happens through acceptation of violence, through acceptation, loving and understanding of the laws of creation, through practice of love of the enemy and through the realization that there are no opponents, but only partners.
Weapons are not only just pistols, bombs, knives and cannons. There are weapons that can injure much more, the psychological ones. You can injure or torture your opponent much harder and longer-lasting by psychological means. The weapon that is most used by man is psycho-terror.
Nearly the whole mankind lives in fear and with a feeling of weakness.
They look for anybody who is weaker, misuse their power and claim their own weakness as strength. As the neighbour is only vulnerable where he is weak, a battle of special brutality begins. Wounds and bruises are always hit again. The presumed conqueror are often astonished themselves how big the damage is that they have caused. Then they may be sorry, then the wounds begin to heal. Healing would not be necessary if wounds hadn’t been caused. But one thing is for sure: You always wound yourself, as you and your neighbour are one! Therefore, my dear, don’t raise your hand against your neighbour, it isn’t worth it! Don’t raise it either against the animals, it isn’t worth it! It would be really wiser to turn the other cheek, in order to stop violence. But - as I already said - this would need more courage than to fight.
An appeal to the good sense:
The good sense is the virtue to estimate the combination of mind and heart higher than the
emotions.
We are one family
The conscience of peace and family is a universal task
Charity means that you shall love your neighbour. As you can’t pretend love, most people restrict their charity to family members, their partner and their closest friends. For most people charity ends there. For me this kind of love is just an extended self-love. Usually it is not yet charity, as charity is unselfish. This step comes immediately after the natural love between a child and its parents. First of all, of course, comes a mother’s love.
It is neither difficult to love one’s own children nor one’s partner, friends or those that love you. This answer comes automatically and there is always selfishness in it. Of course, you should love them anyway, but don’t believe to be a great man or woman of charity just because you love five or ten persons.
To love your neighbour means to love the whole creation and all life within it. This comes automatically. The more you extend, the farther your vibrations go, the more you will love everything that you meet, visible and invisible, everything that is connected with you and your extended heart. If, at any time, you are not able to love somebody, just connect with him. This connection creates such a good understanding of the character of other parts of the creation, that love will automatically arise within you. It is an unconditional, close and binding love that arises. You don’t love for special reasons, but just for the reason of life. You will love everything and everybody just because they exist. Just their existence will be enough to feel enormous love. In my opinion, charity is a love for no reason at all.
All the other reasons for love or hate come from valuation. The normal, usual love is a valuating love.
Valuating love can permanently change, if the other person changes and then doesn’t meet your valuation any more. Love for no reason at all can’t change. Love free from valuation is so beautiful, because it is a calm and clear love, free from emotions and limits. It can always be exchanged from both sides and under all circumstances, because it happens on another level, from origin to origin.
Just imagine how it is to be loved unconditionally. Not to be loved because you do or are anything, but just because you exist. Nothing is expected from you and nothing that you do can be wrong. ... And imagine that you could love (not just accept) others as they are. Not because they are like you or different, but just because they exist. ... Of course, you would immediately live in a completely different world. You would find yourself on the highest level of human being, without doing anything else!
There is no offer that is more effective or easier. Nevertheless this huge love to everything that exists begins very simply, between you and your neighbour. You should not wait until your neighbour makes the beginning and you should not put any conditions for your reconciliation. Be peaceful in every situation, knowing that the other one doesn’t know what he does or what he has done. Solve all violations of your frontiers and all infringements as fast as possible, adjust to your new way and act accordingly. Either this adjustment leads into a common future, if you are corresponding to your partner’s way, or it doesn’t. You shouldn’t be afraid to go your new way alone, if necessary. You have nothing to lose, your love can continue on your side only. Love doesn’t need an answer if it is without any conditions. We don’t want to say that you should leave your partner after the first difficulties, but it doesn’t make sense either to remain in a partnership that is without any perspective. Only you can decide at which point it is. We often see that people don’t estimate their situations correctly, either too dramatically or too harmless. By their wrong estimation they try to avoid a change of their situation that will come sooner or later. More understanding would be helpful.
Only those who have the courage to understand their situation have a perspective in their life. At this point you will find out if your partnership remains alive or slowly begins to die. Dead partnerships end in anger or indifference. The ‚together‘ from before turns into an ‚against‘. This is also true for
nations.
Those who are not able to love their enemies in the end, are not able to realize charity in its highest quality. Peace on earth will remain an utopy for a dreaming mankind. Let us wake up and make our inner peace to a universal peace for all people, races and religions.
Peace on earth can begin now. It is now that you can rebuild peace within yoursel. Don’t begin tomorrow, as it could already be too
late.
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