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Originally Posted by impaul99  I mean I can come up with any number of examples where I take something you care about (your kids, your safety, your peace, your freedom, etc.) and threaten to take it away, injure it, etc. Are you saying you would always react with love now that you've chosen to be a lightworker? |
These are scenarios you concocted in your mind. They are no more real than the movies on TV. What Steve experiences has to do with his own beliefs and such, and what you experience has to do with yours. Whether he will ever face these situations have more to do with his own internal state, and if he does, then he'll know or learn what to do according to his own internal state at that point in time.
One thing we do is think we know what it is to be in someone else's shoes when in fact we never can know such a thing. We would have to think exactly like that other person which we cannot do unless we are that person. Ultimately you experience reality through your own filters, and you will act accordingly.
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I'm sorry, but I just see that both sides are still needed in life for as long as we still have any snippen of an EGO within us. Once we truly transcend EGO and become perfect and enlightened like Christ or Buddha or something, then we might be able to be a pure Lightworker and act from love always and forever. Until then, why do you practice martial arts? So that you can learn how to love the people that try to hurt your family? I doubt that.
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Once again, I think you are trying to project yourself into the minds of Jesus, Buddha and Steve. Clearly if you studied martial arts it would only be to defend yourself or others. Nothing wrong with that. For others, there is more to martial arts than self defense. In fact most martial arts (but not all) are based on self-discipline first (not self-defense) which includes not harming anyone unless you are being attacked. Some martial arts use the enemy's force against himself (thus would not quite work unless you are being attacked).
The way I understood polarization is that it is a perspective, a mindset. Something horrible might have happened and you might be after righting the wrong. How you handle the situation, what you think and feel throughout the process has to do with your mindset even though you might be taking the same actions! For example "blame" is a very common game most people play and it is a "fear" based response. But not blaming (=acceptance) does not have to mean no action at all! Like I said, you will most likely act similarly whether you want to act from love or fear, but your internal state would be different throughout the process. And that internal state makes all the difference!