Ahimsa...flip side of the coin

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Harsha wrote:

>Ahimsa above all others yamas (restraints or rules of conduct)...

Ahimsa (the state of non harming) is always the first principle to

abide by. The notion of Ahimsa has deep meaning and is not a

gimmick. Peace cannot be obtained by enjoying victory over others.

I wrote: Om, shanti, shanti, shanti...

and I meant it, on a global level. Then I get off my little fantasy

ride and go downstairs. Ahimsa...non-injury, not harming others,

whether by word, thought or deed. So I believe in world peace. So I

am worried about world peace right now as my own country pushes

towards war and genocide. What about my own little world? My

reality, if you will pardon the expression.

>This is a spiritual and psychological truth. Those who win by taking

things from others by force or who create fear in others >cannot help

but harbor fear in their unconscious that the same can happen to them.

 

They should be afraid, shouldn't they? Looking at the flip side of

the proverbial coin (thank you for that analogy, Harsha:-), ie, the

effect on the other as well, when you take by force or by creating

fear, you indeed sow the seeds for the same plant to grow as that

which is now flourishing in your own self. So it becomes a

self-generating phenomenon, feeding off of itself.

Fear has many faces. Force has many methods. Words...sword. So now I

am back in my everyday life...I am immersed in a battle against my

desire to strike back every time my husband strikes. Our paths have

diverged, mine in a striking and apparantly abrupt manner. I go away

for a weekend seminar, and, according to him..."the person who came

home was not my wife."

I am doing ok with the general world, but two of my inner wolves, one

of pain, the other of anger, are pitted against each other almost

constantly in my home. The victor gets the spoils. If I strike back

in anger, then I will get a good dose of the same. Pain is so

vulnerable :-) So I realize another, sobering aspect of this new

word, Ahimsa, as I struggle with the reality of the ideal. Splat!!!

Love,

Joyce

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