My answers to those questions at the end. 1. It does through our efforts because we are not separate from the universe. 2. It doesn't say movements have to wait for those who aren't finished with their inner work, that's an ever deepening process. Those who are exposed to, and engaged with lifelong practicioners of Non-violence can be inspired and moved internally by them; the way wood catches fire very quickly when it's right next to a fire. 3. I say absolutely not. Fearlessness IS complete acceptance of whatever happens and doesn't suffer. So to follow a directive about acceptance is not possible, one becomes accepting only through inner practices not external principles or beliefs. Most people aren't completely fearless, so this principle has to rely on courage which is part fearlessness and part fear, with enough fearlessness to override the fear part. Not having clarity around a direct action of NV is doubt and it could increase the fear part. The question also betrays an outcome oriented mentality instead of means or process orientation. 4. "Resist not evil." "What you resist persists." "There is no way to peace, peace is the way." Attacking evil is to embody love, which is no attack at all. 5. It's not human nature to be greedy and create conflict, that's human conditioning and/or human thinking. All thoughts and beliefs that oppose our true nature create suffering like, "I'm not going to have enough money" or "I'm going to run out of money". That kind of thinking can feel unnatural because it typically is. 6. This is another false premise. NV, as demonstrated so often in the past, has shown that the NV activist regularly awakens or transforms the other by returning violence with love. Killings happen in NV struggles but they occur in dramatically lower numbers than in violent struggles. Being non-violent, to me, is acting out of our true nature and that can mean looking violent like when Gandhi had poisonous snakes killed to protect children in the community he and others built in South Africa. It was a NV act if those who killed the snakes held an unmovable peace within while killing the snakes, so NV is an internal state that can appear either way.
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My answers to those questions at the end.
1. It does through our efforts because we are not separate from the universe.
2. It doesn't say movements have to wait for those who aren't finished with their inner work, that's an ever deepening process. Those who are exposed to, and engaged with lifelong practicioners of Non-violence can be inspired and moved internally by them; the way wood catches fire very quickly when it's right next to a fire.
3. I say absolutely not. Fearlessness IS complete acceptance of whatever happens and doesn't suffer. So to follow a directive about acceptance is not possible, one becomes accepting only through inner practices not external principles or beliefs. Most people aren't completely fearless, so this principle has to rely on courage which is part fearlessness and part fear, with enough fearlessness to override the fear part. Not having clarity around a direct action of NV is doubt and it could increase the fear part. The question also betrays an outcome oriented mentality instead of means or process orientation.
4. "Resist not evil." "What you resist persists." "There is no way to peace, peace is the way."
Attacking evil is to embody love, which is no attack at all.
5. It's not human nature to be greedy and create conflict, that's human conditioning and/or human thinking. All thoughts and beliefs that oppose our true nature create suffering like, "I'm not going to have enough money" or "I'm going to run out of money". That kind of thinking can feel unnatural because it typically is.
6. This is another false premise. NV, as demonstrated so often in the past, has shown that the NV activist regularly awakens or transforms the other by returning violence with love. Killings happen in NV struggles but they occur in dramatically lower numbers than in violent struggles.
Being non-violent, to me, is acting out of our true nature and that can mean looking violent like when Gandhi had poisonous snakes killed to protect children in the community he and others built in South Africa. It was a NV act if those who killed the snakes held an unmovable peace within while killing the snakes, so NV is an internal state that can appear either way.