Fighting For, Not Against
Here are some timely words of wisdom from the American spiritual teacher Adyashanti (to hear his words straight from him, watch this YouTube video). The Iranian Greens have internalized this; it’s one reason why they’re such an inspiration!
Gandhi’s whole message…he constantly said “I am not against the British! That’s not what I’m doing! I’m for Indian sovereignty! It’s what I’m FOR.” He was always telling people “we are not against“. And this shows his consciousness was not in a divided state. And so he acted, and spoke, and more importantly transmitted into the collective, an undivided state of consciousness. This one little man got the biggest colonial empire kicked out of India. The key here is that his state of consciousness was not divided. That’s what has all the power!
It’s like….”I love the trees!” Fine! It’s good to love trees! But do I hate the loggers? Do I hate the politicians? [If so] then we’re just putting divisive energy into the whole.
There are a lot of people, more than at any time in our history, really working to stop destructiveness and violence, and what does our world look like? Seemingly a little more destructive and violent every day. I would suggest that one of the reasons is that when we’re doing good works with a divided heart, we are part of the war. We’re giving birth to it in the heart.
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I am with HUMANITY, and with all the humans !!!
I am with FREE-PALESTINE and with all the Palestinians.
I am with the jews and have lots of them friends visiting me all the time !!!
BUT,
I am against the RACIST ZIONISTS and will fight them with every possible mean I have !!!
dear,
Can you say I am with GOD but I have nothing to do with the DEVIL?
I cant… simply because I cant be but anti-nazist and anti-fascist and anti-zionist…. but I am with HUMANITY !!…… simply because I am with our GLOBAL village but against any and all racist ideologies !!!
Sami, the bedouin/
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Sami, so you’re saying that you are firmly NOT against those who you happen to not be against. That you LOVE everyone you don’t despise. That you wish the very best to those you don’t wish the very worst.
That really doesn’t sound like much of a courageous leap to me, though it sounds like you were feeling pretty noble as you typed that.
It reminds me of a friend’s negotiations with her brother as they divided their father’s estate. She offered him, with dramatic loving generosity, everything she didn’t want. And she felt just GREAT about herself as she did this. So generous! Who could ever say she was selfish when there was SO MUCH she was giving? She just gave and gave and gave (all the stuff she didn’t want)!
Those things she did want, naturally, she was utterly unyielding about. She bared her teeth and hissed. Threatened lawyers. Complete psycho.
Humanity. Sigh.