COMBAT AND COMPASSION
People are generally as programmed in their behavior as any cat or dog. Acknowledging that fact makes forgiveness a little easier. Perhaps the role of spiritual practice and well-practiced religion is to liberate people from their programming. The fear and anger and lust and stupidity abide, but we are empowered to at least slightly temper them, to take some nominal responsibility for our actions, or better said, to submit our course of action to a higher influence, something more noble than genetic programming and parental abuse.
In exploring that potential, we see the Christos
in all, in the paradoxical opportunities for a Creation based on claw and
combat to give rise to decency, compassion, and Love.
Copyright 2021 Don Ray. Feel free to print and share.
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