Man while upon the earth weeps
and cries out to God for His Justice!
To the Nations of the LORD, we fly
for redress of this awful plight,
for Man's plight is suffering.
Man suffers evil upon the earth
because he is Man...
Because Man is by first principle a victim.
I never understood the power of non-violence until I read a short essay about it in "War Talk" by Arundhati Roy.
I never understood what I now understand because I never was able to fully apprehend the profound connection it had with violent resistance.
Non-violence is actually the purest form of dissent and when it is given ear, speaks its message clearly and simply - even gently, resounding like a bell.
When it is given ear... for Ahimsa always needs a partner to the dance.
The thing is, when non-violence, especially in a democracy (particularly in an emerging Country like ours - still awakening to the growing strength of its wood), becomes itself a prisoner to popular indifference, we unwittingly abandon a necessary part of our political process by default to violent resistance.
And who wants to dance with that?
Dissent and overcoming dissent is an integral part of the national dialogue. We are free to express our disagreements to a government who is also free to express its disagreements.
How skillful the dancers are define how graceful the dance of the politics of those and every time besides and in a democracy, we have to dance - else, we would reap no results and the nation will grow hungry for the truth. And so we are in constant need of these partnerships - to hope to fully realize each dream within everybody's dreaming, that our forever may be full.
I believe an integral part of our civic freedoms is to adequately understand what constitutes "peaceful protest" - small or large - and I put forward to you, my brothers and sisters of the Promise, that this is Ahimsa.
People Power was also Ahimsa...
Yes, we know this dance, we just have to recognize that we do.
And should always give preference to it.
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and cries out to God for His Justice!
To the Nations of the LORD, we fly
for redress of this awful plight,
for Man's plight is suffering.
Man suffers evil upon the earth
because he is Man...
Because Man is by first principle a victim.
I never understood what I now understand because I never was able to fully apprehend the profound connection it had with violent resistance.
Non-violence is actually the purest form of dissent and when it is given ear, speaks its message clearly and simply - even gently, resounding like a bell.
When it is given ear... for Ahimsa always needs a partner to the dance.
The thing is, when non-violence, especially in a democracy (particularly in an emerging Country like ours - still awakening to the growing strength of its wood), becomes itself a prisoner to popular indifference, we unwittingly abandon a necessary part of our political process by default to violent resistance.
And who wants to dance with that?
Dissent and overcoming dissent is an integral part of the national dialogue. We are free to express our disagreements to a government who is also free to express its disagreements.
How skillful the dancers are define how graceful the dance of the politics of those and every time besides and in a democracy, we have to dance - else, we would reap no results and the nation will grow hungry for the truth. And so we are in constant need of these partnerships - to hope to fully realize each dream within everybody's dreaming, that our forever may be full.
I believe an integral part of our civic freedoms is to adequately understand what constitutes "peaceful protest" - small or large - and I put forward to you, my brothers and sisters of the Promise, that this is Ahimsa.
People Power was also Ahimsa...
Yes, we know this dance, we just have to recognize that we do.
And should always give preference to it.
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