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My friend, while I agree with the spirit of what you have said here, I caution you to keep your anger in check. Do not become that which so angers you, because when that happens, when that rage overcomes you, the pain you feel now will pale in comparison to the regret you feel afterward. Continue to resist this evil presence, but please, do not become it in the process.
Quoting: Rising Son Rage has its place. There is such a thing as appropriate anger and violence. Do you see it taught anywhere today? It is - for the police and military. For everyone else, anger and violence is treated with "zero tolerance." By "non-responsible administrators." You know what that creates? Ultimate violence. Calm, dispassionate, rule-following, slaughter. 200 million people butchered in the last 100 years by their own governments, according to the rule of law, following every administrative process, done with efficiency and perfect calm, by people who went home at night to their families. Proper anger is not taught to The People for a reason. I rage when rage is appropriate. When, for example, someone calmly appropriates the highest spiritual wisdom to use as a political cover for moral depravity and cowardice, and the surrender of conscience to the collective, all in the name of peace, love and understanding. I rage now - openly - so that another 200 million dead bodies don't pile up at the feet of these cool and calm bureaucrat operatives. I rage so that physical violence is avoided, made unnecessary, because the crushing grip of politically correct silence is broken, the hypocrisy and lies are exposed, the extreme danger they represent are brought to light, and the foul, calculating potential murderers whispering surrender in everyone's ears are exposed and neutralized without a shot being fired. THAT is the purpose of the proper expression of rage. And yet - you play it calmly, and I also recognize and acknowledge the value of that approach. In turn however, I ask that you examine your own presumptions about anger automatically equating loss of control or evil. Furthermore, I suggest to you that the fact that you are quite willing to dial 911 and have other people indulge in the level of anger, rage and violence necesary to save your skin, means that you're not being quite honest with yourself about this issue. My friend, I am sorry - I made the same mistake a did a few posts ago. I responded to my caution rather than responded to my hope. What you are talking about is very tricky, and I hope that you see my point - there is no place for rage, because rage does not seek any solution other than destruction. With that being said, it is okay to be angry when you are offended by something that you know is morally wrong. In that respect, your anger is justified - as an EMOTION. When that emotion turns to action, your anger is personified for all to see, and there is no happy result to that endeavor. What I believe you are experiencing is passion, and that is passion for the truth and justice. You have known what is evil for a very long time now, and it frustrates you beyond no end why people have no issues with the horrific violation of those principles. Please do not let your passion extend to rage - because rage knows no purpose other than death, and I know you are a better person than that. That trickyness is the essence of maturity and wisdom - and avoiding it is moral cowardice. We are responsible for our actions. And we are also responsible for our non-actions. In my experience, evil exploits the fear of either of these requirements - it does not care. There is a time for all three aspects of life: creation, preservation and destruction. This cannot be avoided. The only requirement is to know which is required, when. That can be very tricky, but it cannot be avoided without horrific results. Facing that truth is maturity. And the more people face it, the more people who accept the personal responsibility for it in their lives, then the less times it has to result in violence or outright destruction. But when a people resorts to denial as an absolute, to non-violence as morality itself, then the enemy reaps a toll of hundreds of millions of lives. This is plain history - and history repeated many, many times. Zero tolerance has created a world where predator drones may vaporize anyone at any time with no due process of law, and a public that can do little more than gape before turning back to their smartphones. The thing about zen masters is that they do not deny the reality of violence - they are ready to be destroyed rather than fight, and know it can happen. But they likewise do not impose their spiritual choice upon the rest of the world, to die at the hands of evil for their conceit. Some of the greatest warriors came from the dharma traditions of the past, precisely because those tradditions acknowledged a place for all things. So - in this modern world, where everyone wants a say in everything, then everyone has to be willing to fight if necessary, too. Otherwise the system becomes a farce, and predators move in - both human and drones. I wish you peace, and if you ever need it, the protection of violence - including any necessary rage - that others are willing to do to save your life from evil. And if you don't accept such a wish, then please pass it on to one of the 1.3 rape victims each minute in the U.S. who will dearly wish she had it to protect her. Please do not misunderstand me, what I was talking about with respect to anger or rage is tricky in that it is deceptive, and those that seek to strike you down from the side of evil want to deceive you likewise. When you give yourself over to rage, you have joined the armies of darkness. Fear is only the belief in what you do not know to be certain, in essence it is the absence of faith. With the common societal understanding and definition of faith, I will leave it at that, and hope and pray that you know there is no place for fear in our Father's Kingdom. With regard to the threat of human life, what are you holding out for? If what you hold as truth here in life is indistinguishable with that of death, where does your fear originate from? If you in your human form are morally justified in opposing all of that which is evil, then I am not worthy to be speaking to you now. I would caution you, however - if there is any part of you that exists within the sovereignty of the darkness, then you stand no chance against the armies of the wicked.
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