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“Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.”
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When you look at this picture who are you?
Which person are you?
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[size=115][b]My thesis for this thread;[/b] The last brave man, knowingly, gave his life for his belief; his philosophy.
Philosophy can be thought to be a subject; words in a book.
Or philosophy can immerse you; can take you beyond your [i]self.[/i]
Nonviolence must be practiced inside of you. You must practice nonviolence towards yourself in order to travel towards [i]The Philosophical Spirit of Non-violence.[/i]
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I’m not of the mindset to conclude that all violence is bad.
It’s like saying all guns are bad.
Sometimes people have justified hate. Well actually, they do it all the time.
Justification is a wide subject, allot of people justify things, one way or another.
You justify non-violence. Not everyone does.
They have their own reasons usually.
One common type of mental violence is condescension. It is used, often, as a way to avoid getting angry. Why get angry at someone who is not on your level, who is not your equal? Which ends up being another thing to look down on people for: their honest, direct and ultimately more respectful expression of anger at being looked down on can also be looked down on. Poor stage 2a types.
Another similar kind of violence is to provoke people as part of some noble purpose - iow to make them feel bad while pretending this was not the intention. IOW one doesn’t really know what one is really up to.
A third kind of mental violence is spiritual smugness, sometimes of the holier than thou kind, sometimes as a kind of unwarranted sympathy. The latter ‘feeling’ connects to the first form of mental violence, though it is even more about self-image, which in this case is very much tied to being better and seeking followers.
It’s funny. Some people do not notice how they judge and what effects this has. They cannot understand how their ‘honesty’, ‘compassion’ and ‘spiritual advice’ are rejected. Oh, they are still at that resistent stage, and the would-be guru shakes his head, overwhelmed by the power and glory of his own wistfulness. This sense of overwhelment is so powerful they often are completely impervious to learning from others, which is likely for the best, sigh, head shake, the beauty of it all.
