Ahimisa Council - Linda

[Guest guest]

> "Linda Callanan" <shastra

>[...]

>

> The point you have brought up about well-intentioned celebration in memory

> of victims is a very good one. Sometimes it is forgotten just how powerful

> thought can be, I for one, never really gave much thought to the various

> celebrations that we have honoring war, victims and war heroes

> but what you

> say makes sense. Being a ripe old 48 I was fairly horrified when

> in my 30s

> I watched the resurgence of neo-nazi attiitudes in some young

> people. What

> I realized was that Hitler's thoughts were still very much alive in the

> universe and just waiting for the proper minds to latch on to them. If

> those thoughts can stay alive we must all practice using our own

> thoughts to

> present ahimisa - those thought projections also survive in the

> universe and

> can act as a counterbalance.

>

> Linda

 

To my knowledge, history is full of atrocities. There have been many

migrations of entire people and this wasn't always due to food shortage.

Knowing some of the atrocities the Dutch imposed during the early years of

colonizing Indonesia, my conclusion is that "Hitler's thoughts" were very

much alive then, as they were in the times of the inquisition with its

devices, invented for the sole purpose of torturing. Having been subjected

to illegal interrogation myself, I can only say devices and methods have

kept up with technology.

 

The only periods of peace have been on the Indian subcontinent and

invariably during a regime where the ruler was familiar with Ahimsa. Once I

heard an interview of an archeologist who had written a dissertation on

"life as a slave in ancient Rome" and this life was filled with more

"well-being" than that of the average US worker but for obvious reasons

it is kept out of all history books.

 

In the long run, there isn't a choice but to globally adopt Ahimsa.

Population is expanding, soil is eroding, climate isn't changing for the

better and fossil fuel will become scarce. "No choice" usually denotes a

spiritual dimension...

 

Jan