Bottom Line:
The key strategic import, for the Unviolent Warrior, by whatever
name is: Clearly conceive, construct, and carry out any and every
"action" against evil, EXPLICITLY as Delivering Love, usually brutally
Tough, to the Target. Will doing so radically and obviously change the
characteristics and apparent nature of all actions? No, not
"obviously." But Fundamentally. Is it "obvious" a bomb carrying a
nuclear device, vs one that carries something else? Not to me. But it
is fundamentally different in Truth and impact, none the less.
Were
I to do another Hunger Strike, I would need to understand it as
explicitly as I could as a delivery of Love to the target. I don't
think I've ever thought of it in that way. If I did so, that would
directly alter everything, including my Communication, Spirit,
interactions, intended targets.... and I'm Certain it would make any
future Hunger Strikes of Vastly more promise.
For now, I probably can't be more clear, or specific, tho I'll keep trying. :-)
Continuing...
The following may be obvious for years, to you, but it is massively new, Transformative Clarity, to me.
Through the undeserved Grace of the Creator, the Forces of Creation, my inklings of how to defeat Evil, so called nonviolence, what better is called Unviolent Warfare, Waging Love... has taken a fundamental leap for me in recent weeks, the greatest leap in maybe a decade, despite my daily practice and study of the issue all that time.
Surely Gandhi is the father of what the best understand as any worthwhile ideas of unviolent warfare these last 70 years or so. Many don't know who Gandhi's primary source of wisdom, Teaching, was. Jesus, by all accounts, as Jesus was discovered to Gandhi by the writings of Leo Tolstoy - "The Kingdom of God is Within You," in particular, and then many years of personal correspondence with Tolstoy, who Gandhi considered the greatest living example of Nonviolence (Unviolent Warfare).
Well, much of the time I had when able to focus during the recent 2 weeks of recovery from surgery has been a re-immersion in those same Tolstoy writings that created Gandhi.
Frankly, what I learned through this most recent re-study of these Tolstoy writings is NOT what Tolstoy concluded about Jesus teaching. I'm certain that Tolstoy got it wrong, or rather, that he understandably, did not take what he saw through all the way to it's correct end. I say this by way of full disclosure, and so as not to lay at Tolstoy's feet the following. I do not say this to diminish Tolstoy's writings on Jesus, writings that I consider to be the most important works yet available to man - that if deeply understood by thousands, or millions, would more than anything else I can see, Save humanity from the Ecocide and/or larger Technocice that is otherwise in the final stages of dooming all future humans to Earth as Living Hell. ("The Kingdom of God is Within You," "The Gospel in Brief," "The Law of Love and the Law of Violence," these three in particular."
What Tolstoy seems to say as Jesus most central and important point of all, of everything he taught and lived is that - The #1 Path to Humanity, Goodness, Personal Joy, Collective Heaven on Earth... the true, concrete victory over Evil is - DO NOT RESIST EVIL.
As far as it goes, this is patently wrong, incorrect, absurd, WRONG. And let me be clear again, I view Tolstoy as probably the most important intellect for Humanity since Jesus himself.
The shooter in Newtown should not have been stopped? Should not have been resisted? OBVIOUSLY, "Do not resist evil" is NOT what Jesus meant. OBVIOUSLY. Even in Tolstoy's writing:
* Jesus fashioned a whip and drove the money changers from the temple.
* Told the Apostles to secure swords, tho immediately admonished Peter for using one.
* Interposed himself, opposing the evil of those that would have stoned the woman....
And Gandhi's actions, based on Tolstoy's rendering's of Jesus' teachings, too, imply a perception that on it's face Tolstoy, and today's so called proponents of "non-violence" (willful "cowards" in my view, as I've written)... got it totally wrong.
Clearly what Jesus taught was NOT - Do not resist Evil - but rather -
A. RESIST EVIL!!! OF COURSE!!!! HOWEVER, DO NOT RESIST EVIL... NEVER, NEVER, NEVER...WITH EVIL!!!!!! DO NOT RETURN, DO NOT RETURN, DO NOT RETURN... Evil for Evil!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND FURTHER -
B. RETURN GOOD, RETURN GOOD, RETURN GOOD... FOR EVIL; WHEN EVIL IS DONE TO YOU YOU, OR TO ANY OF OUR GLOBAL NEEDIEST FAMILY, OR TO ANYONE, OR TO ANY OF CREATION !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is what Jesus meant, and demonstrated throughout his life; and so with Gandhi, Diane Wilson, Rachel Corrie, MLK Jr.... AND THE FIRST RESPONDERS IN NEWTOWN!!!!! Huh, most would say! They used Violence! NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Violence is that which VIOLATES the Good, what is Right, Loving. YES, had the first responders acted out of Hate, intending do the Evil of Harming.... But no reports indicate this! They were putting their own Lives in the way, for GOOD. If I had been the crazed Lanza, SHOOT ME! For Good's sake, STOP ME! For LOVING's SAKE, SHOOT ME. PLEASE!!!!!! Right????? BUT OUT OF LOVE, COMPASSION, UNDERSTANDING... INCLUDING FOR ME AS LANZA, THE CRAZED KILLER!....
Despite a lifetime, and most intensely, more than a decade now of single-minded study and practice of Unviolent Warfare, I didn't see this until just 2 weeks go, deeply pondering Tolstoy's writing. This opens up huge avenues for me to refine approaches that I've taken, or considered; but now refined with what I can imagine will be Geometrically more hopeful prospects of success, than anything I've yet understood!!!!
This is the stuff of ALL, ALL, ALL... Unviolent, Nonviolent Actions: LOVING BOMBS. CARPET BOMBING WITH WEAPONS, WITH RESPONSES, OF 'TOUGH,' OR NOT-TOUGH LOVING, AS THE SITUATION DEMANDS. PERIOD. PERIOD. PERIOD. (Think cancelling out anti-matter with a sufficient amount of matter!)
Of course there is no expectation that any one such 'Loving Bomb' will suffice. Duh. But that it is vastly more the correct type of, characteristic of weapon, of response, of action than I've yet understood to become, to deliver... YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now, Jesus Gospel is this, His Teaching is this as I've recently shared -
***** vlog 'May I Teach You Jesus' Gospel? I 'get it' now.' Loving. Of the two categories of Spirit (psycholgically, neurologically speaking) within us, the Spirit of Loving is our True, DNA intended, Spirit to be dominant, ALWAYS, EVERY SECOND, over the alternative Spirit of Flesh (Selfishness); purely for reasons of optimal capacity, optimal adaptivity for the individual, and optimal adaptivity for the species, under EVERY, EVERY... circumstance; every breath, every second. Silly? This is just EXACTLY to say that in every instance, every breath, every second it is more adaptive, more advantageous for:
* Sanity (Loving) to Reign over Insanity (Loving being Clinical Sanity; Selfishness being Clinical Insanity - anti-social characteristics, even if our societal norms don't so say).
* Maximal INTELLIGENCE (Heart) to Reign over lower intelligence (Flesh/Head).
* Maximal VISION, INCLUSIVENESS of VISION (Loving, Solidarity, Brotherhood, Compassion, Understanding) to Reign over Narrowness of Vision (Animosity, Hatred, Ignorance of, Divorce from, Lack-of-Understanding of).
This new understanding will inform all of my future planning and actions; as I hope it has, and does, yours.
Pre-Emptive, and Re-active LOVING - Waging the Toughest Imaginable, most Relentless, NEVER Ceasing War of Loving against all evil, against EVERY evil act, EVERY evil circumstance, for the INFINITE JOY and HOPE of it, and for the certain, absolute Victory that only such weapons can and would bring.
