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So, using this line of thinking, when others hurt us, they’re actually hurting themselves, and by not responding to them, we’re allowing them to hurt us and themselves—and we’re not stopping them from hurting us and themselves.I’d say so, though of course in a relatively small way.
But I don’t know if we share the same metaphysics
in my reckoning:
1. all there is is the field of mind and everything in it is all the same godhead at the bottom of it
2. we therefore share a common identity between all of us, so what we do to another we do ourselves
3. given the principle of mentalism in point 1. Thoughts and feelings are a type of action. Kindness at the level of thought is kindness, violence is violence
But because we are the same being, we do the violence to ourselves
and then there’s the more practical down to earth way this is true in that it’s only our own system we’re polluting with the stress of anger and negativity
edit: that said—there is a time and a place for violence, we just have to be aware that we are hurting ourselves to the same degree we hurt another
Hmmmm… I think it’s just something—and forgive me for saying this—that’s pointless, isn’t it?