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Heaven #3840 Become a Rose
Posted May 16th, 2011 by Normand Bo...
Dear Gloria,
in http://www.heavenletters.org/become-a-rose.html
3rd paragraph from the end
"If someone snaps at you, the last thing I want you to do is to snap back at them", there are different "degrees" of snapping from being angry to go as far as hitting somebody violently. Which intensity of snapping is meant by God here?
Thanks
"If someone snaps at you,
"If someone snaps at you, the last thing I want you to do is to snap back at them. Anyone can do that. Everyone has done that. It has been automatic. It has been a lazy habit, a spineless response, an infraction of good manners."
Here's how I understand it, beloved Normand:
Yes, there are different degrees of snapping. In this sentence, however, I believe he is talking about generic snapping in all its shapes and sizes. He just does want us to do it in any shape or form. He doesn't want us to give a dirty look, or stamp our foot, or yell, or punch, or curse, or anything at all!
Loving you and thanking you for translating and pinning things down!.
I understand the generic
I understand the generic idea. I was just wondering that people (including myself) might ask serious questions about what to do when you are seriously physically attacked. How should you react? Let yourself beaten to death?
I am horrified at the very idea of hitting anybody, even an ennemy. Where do self protection starts and end?
"self protection"
You can always walk or run away, but I think God doesn't mind at all about "what to do". Running away, hitting back or even killing are the same in themselves, in fact they are all fiction as they all come from the premise that there is a "self" who runs or hitts or kills. The question is not what to do and how and when and to what degree, the question is always and only one: to be or not to be.
And, of course, this applies
And, of course, this applies to death...
Of course.
Of course.
The same logic applies to
The same logic applies to the famous sense of sacrifice. Since we only give to ourself, there is no sacrifice. We could laugh at all the forms of sacrifice including pain, loss, sickness, grief, poverty, death... Accepting not to be a victim is removing the thought of being a victim. It still has to be experimented.
experiments
Well, it is not "logical", but it applies.
Physical violence is just
Physical violence is just not in our range, is it? May we never have to know.
Somehow, just my opinion, I can't imagine that God would tell us not to protect ourselves and our families or anyone. I also can't imagine hurting anyone like that. On the other hand, I don't suppose we know what we would do in such a situation.
I heard a story once of an Indian saint. A murderer came into his room. The saint, knowing that this was ordained, kindly told the invader to go ahead and do what he came for. And so he died.
To snap at someone really
To snap at someone really only has the rather harmless meaning of making a quick and irritable remark or retort.
You see, there is nothing so
You see, there is nothing so bad in the action of "snapping at" in itself, but the problems start with "snapping back at them", that is to say with our reactive, authomatic, unaware behaviours before what we see as someone else.