Hope for the Human Race. The Sound of One Hand Clapping “Not everyone responds to the pushes from the environment with a struggle and a fight … a defensive stance. Not everyone is unbending to the world. Granted, that is what we learned right in the beginning, at birth: We learned that we had better push back or we will die. But that is not “human nature,” that is an experience we had that left an imprint on what we thought, from then on, life was like.” “…not everyone reacts defensively to being pushed. The Zen way is non-resistance to being pushed; as they say, the rigid tree breaks in the wind, the supple tree bends and does not break.” “…the Tao of Funny God is much the same way, as well: One does not take up guns, or fists, against an aggressive force but responds creatively (turning it, moving it, directing it back), using the resources of one’s soul, not one’s muscles. One responds with humor, art, reason, love, truth, deflection, comedy, and above all, non-violence to an aggressive act …” “normal, usually competitive interactions and communications are being transformed into synergistic, harmonious modes of relationship and information-sharing in the Occupy movement. Attend any general assembly of theirs to see what I mean.” “This other attitude, this relative non-defensiveness toward experience is the way of Funny God and is consistent with the lunar theologies as well.” “…confronted with the unusual and unexpected, it is a response of receptivity and learning … not defensiveness….” https://facebook/notes/michael-adzema/hope-for-the-human-race-the-sound-of-one-hand-clapping/10152530766158138
Posted on: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 05:15:36 +0000
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