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Originally Posted by avyaktam
All is one is very true.
But on our range of levels of experience there are definitely enemies.
Christ advocated the sword. The Baghavad Gita is about Krishna teaching Arjuna to slay his enemies. I believe in slaying enemies, but in slaying without hatred. If everybody would just had loved Hitler, we wouldn't be writing here now! Just sitting 'loving' while the baddies take over the world, what a silly idea.
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I agree avyaktam, it's not necessarily a choice to have enemies, often they choose us. Should we love them, and what does mean? We can love their essence, but that shouldn't be confused with the overlays who would take our freedoms or kill us.
I've always said that if someone threatened my family and I determined that the threat was real, I'd kill them without regret. If someone chooses to cross the boundaries into our space, claim it as their own, subjugate and kill, they've chosen the paradigm and it's our duty as sovereign entities to stand our ground. The idea that enemies are our own darkness reflected back at us, while being true in some instances, is not true in every case. I'm aware of my darkness, and it's not that which is threatening this planet....however I do agree that there may be manifestations of my past darkness that may be, and this also needs to be taken into consideration.
The bottom line is that we cannot love evil to the light. It has to find its own way back the whole. We do it no favors by naively pretending that it's ourselves when it's not, or by laying down and meekly surrendering to tyranny. We have to resist being drawn into a state of disempowerment and victimization, though this always carries with it the risk of becoming the tyrant. As always, there is the necessity for balance.
We need to remember where we are. We can dream higher consciousness into this reality, we can have full knowing that we're all of One consciousness, but if we're not clear about the rules of engagement at the frequency in which we find ourselves, we'll be eliminated simply because of threat inherent within the knowledge we carry.