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Friends, the true, potent activist, the INSHE Warrior, is in the miracle
business. Huh? Well, think about it - ousting Mubarak was a
miracle, impossible, objectively, truly.
As were every major human rights struggle won you or I can think
of. Not some metaphysical miracle, an
objective, the impossible made to happen, miracle. This is the work that needs to be done, and
this is what the True activists throughout history have devoted themselves
to. The miracle business. The part of our nervous system, head and
flesh, these are so primitive, so weak, they are not the place of miracles. Oh,
they have a major role to be sure. But
Miracles, when they come, regardless of the field, come not from our Head or
Flesh, but from our Heart, the 80% of the nervous system Einstein observed we
don't use - the seat of intuition, vision, unity, solidarity, conscience,
wisdom, insight, courage...
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All warfare is a psychological, wars of violence, wars of
Unviolence. Whoever wins in the psyche
wins the war.
In wars of violence when the opposing forces in their within
their nervous system, decide they've had enough, they 'surrender.'
In wars of unviolence, like in the civil rights movement,
when the Kennedys, when the citizens the United States, decided they'd
witnessed enough undeserved suffering, that they'd seen enough suffering, they didn't surrender, they 'converted' to
the new way of being, more in solidarity, brotherhood, sisterhood... than
before. Humanity exercised, and
expanded.
The battle of violence, which is to violate that which is
the other's, to bring them to submission, the battle of violence is directed at
the head and the flesh of the nervous system of the opponent. It is designed to cause the head and the
flesh to submit; the head to see that no more suffering made sense ,no more
destruction is acceptable; the flesh to find itself unwilling to bear any more
pain.
All Unviolent warfare worthy of the name ,with the promise
of success, is directed from the heart to the heart. A wonderful line from Gandhi movie Gandhi
"I'm asking you to fight, to fight against their anger, not to provoke
it." He was all about conversion,
being what the world needed to be, and converting people to that view through
largely through his example of selflessness, otherishness, giving of self, that
is the language of the heart. The heart
only knows community; the heart only knows universal solidarity; the heart only
knows universal love. And the Potent Activist,
being of the heart, those observing, often cannot help but have their own
hearts aroused, engaged and exercised and then the battle is two thirds
won.
The weapons of the Unviolent warriors ,self immolation,
hunger strike , death fast, done from the heart ,are the bunker busters, today
it's the death fast, are the bunker busters of the heart, when done from the
heart. The heart does not know physical
violence. It does not know how to do
it. It's only knows that it's
wrong. The heart is the highest form of
human intelligence, is the only seat of courage, it is only universal, never
conditional. The entire focus of the
Unviolent warrior is to always have their own heart, in charge, and to be in a
way that invokes the heart, which is sanity, the only sanity, in the apparent
opponent.
And that's not to say that Hitler would've been converted;
that's not to say that Harper in Canada would be converted; or George Bush or
Dick Cheney. That doesn't matter. The onlookers are what matter. Converting enough of the onlookers, and some
of the opponents.
It appears that in apartheid South Africa, was de Klerk, was
converted. To some degree, the British
in India were converted. To a profoundly
degree, racist Americans were converted by the heart directed, heart targeted,
Unviolent warfare of the respective Unviolent warriors.
Unviolent warriors are not people of metal
masturbation. They're not people of
self-indulgence of the flesh, they don't have time. Because their hearts are engaged, not there head
in their flesh, their hearts are devoted every waking breath to the needs of
those with whom they are in solidarity -= those who are suffering, those who
are tortured, those who are at risk of death.
'Gandhi what is it you're counting on, what is what is it
you're trying to leverage?' Heart
force. Satyagraha, Soul force, Truth
force. 'What do you mean by that
Gandhi.' 'I mean the love of mother for
her child.'
That's the love that engages the Unviolent warrior, and
that's the love that the Unviolent warrior attempts to engage in the opponent,
and when it's engaged, 99% of the battle is won. The rest is details, and outcomes that just
happen when the Hearts are engaged, like spring flowers follow rain.
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