I agree that peace begins inside, and then in one's immediate environment, at home.
But one only has to look at the lesson of the northern Indian tantriks and tantrikas being overrun by the Mongols, whom they greeted peacefully, to know that sometimes, one has to stand and fight for what one believes in and what one holds dear.
In regard to your statement:
We don't need to let the world know we don't approve, the whole world knows this already.
If only it were possible for me to believe that. Unfortunately, I think you are overly optimistic about world opinion. The world knows us by our actions. They can't see into our heads and audit what we are thinking. We are represented to the world by the actions of our elected leaders. When those actions are not consonant with our individual beliefs, it's time to stand up and be counted for what one does believe. And that's one of the main reasons I march. To not do is to give tacit approval to the unconsciounable actions of our democratically elected leaders.
I understand the aggression of the Mongols and the desire to meet with peace. But are we to take from this that the answer to violence and hate is to meet it head on with violence. I live out here amung the Native Americans who still to this day preach the words of peace and yet still claim that violence was the only way to meet the whiteman.
This is the inner struggle in me. To fight for what I believe in when what I believe in is not fighting.
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But one only has to look at the lesson of the northern Indian tantriks and tantrikas being overrun by the Mongols, whom they greeted peacefully, to know that sometimes, one has to stand and fight for what one believes in and what one holds dear.
In regard to your statement:
We don't need to let the world know we don't approve, the whole world knows this already.
If only it were possible for me to believe that. Unfortunately, I think you are overly optimistic about world opinion. The world knows us by our actions. They can't see into our heads and audit what we are thinking. We are represented to the world by the actions of our elected leaders. When those actions are not consonant with our individual beliefs, it's time to stand up and be counted for what one does believe. And that's one of the main reasons I march. To not do is to give tacit approval to the unconsciounable actions of our democratically elected leaders.
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This is the inner struggle in me. To fight for what I believe in when what I believe in is not fighting.
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