LOVE IN ACTION

I would love to hear your feelings on love and non-judgment v love in action in the more challenging or difficult moments of your life.

Here is my story.

I have been on the Bodhisattva Path of Love and Compassion for a long time now so I practice “I am You, You are Me” and this is certainly not without its challenges! On the spiritual path I know each of us has their own secret way of BEING with the mystery of I AM and this is very unique and never judged. However, to test the reality of this, I have had to confront a man with a knife (who tried to kill my secretary in a business I was running) a man with a gun (who tried to break into my house to kill myself and my girlfriend) a man who assaulted (who, when drunk, punched me in the back and put me in hospital) and in each case and many others I was forced to draw on resources I didn’t know existed at the time. In the ‘Man with Knife’ I placed my hand on the man’s heart and was very still inside and by the Grace of God he put away his knife and came with me elsewhere (He had dreamed of being a piano player in a pub and I made that dream come true for him until the police came to arrest him). In the ‘Man with Gun’ I had to use very elaborate language which I will not repeat here for risk of offending and use some old martial arts training with a didgeridoo as defense to ensure my girlfriend was protected (there were police all around, he had a shotgun, was an escaped prisoner on the run, and with helicopters overhead warning us of the danger it was a very touch and go spur of the moment survival instinct kind of thing). In the ‘Man Who Assaults’ I could not respond as I was trapped in a crowd of Japanese in a train and he was very angry at foreigners generally (it was after the 2011 earthquake) so this was a good test in life as I ended up with injuries with no way of protecting myself. In the first case stillness love and compassion truly healed the assailant who was not known to me, in the second, fighting fire with fire was the only way of ensuring the protection of those dear to me which was the path I took which I call ‘active compassion’ and in the third I truly had to forgive deeply a rather blatant violent case of racism and prejudice which I did after the hospital operation mostly because I could not think clearly beforehand. Practical examples are always very useful I feel, I hope they provide some useful food for thought. I would love to hear your feelings on love and non-judgment v love in action in the more challenging or difficult moments of your life.

Thank you to Evie Blanks for the wonderful prompt!