Combatting violence
Since a couple of days, rather since I watched the movie The Accountant, I m having difficulty when I close my eyes. I see violent images and then I try the power of shifting thoughts to positive events which I want in my life to happen. The afternoon short naps are very dear to me and though I gave the opportunity, I have been unable to catch those 20 winks.
Violence has always bothered me like it does to most of the population and since a couple of years I have been avoiding watching it on television and have stopped reading newspapers .
I am hopeful that most of us will take to mediation and create a generation which does not resort to violence for little or big things. However deep down I am also aware that this is not possible as our DNA system is designed to survive and the fight and flight is the basis of this computer programming called humans. If u ponder on the title of today's topic, it is as contradictory as my anti violent dreams.
While I would not want to watch violence and have infact stopped visiting Facebook because I am not able to watch the gory videos of animals being tortured , I realize that if I see a mosquito , I think of how it will harm me with a disease like malaria or dengue and instinctively I want to destroy it. I am sure I shall even turn equally violent if my loves one is hurt by someone and I wonder will all the mediation and the desire for peace in the world let me forgive the person instantly who has hurt my near and dear one.
It is a question I pray I do jot have to face ever.
However , I feel that meditation will help me deal with the fear of pain, deal with the hurt caused by someone causing pain and at least help me make my contribution on this earth by encouraging people to think from the neo cortex rather than the limbic brain . Respond rather than react.
I do feel that more movies should be made where people win a battle with intelligence and good arguments like the movie pynk rather than win battles with killing people and animals and shedding blood. There should be more movies on how peaceful the world can be when decisions are based on intelligence rather than when decisions are based on instincts . The question here is who will watch those movies .
With Magical Love
Salma Prabhu
Violence has always bothered me like it does to most of the population and since a couple of years I have been avoiding watching it on television and have stopped reading newspapers .
I am hopeful that most of us will take to mediation and create a generation which does not resort to violence for little or big things. However deep down I am also aware that this is not possible as our DNA system is designed to survive and the fight and flight is the basis of this computer programming called humans. If u ponder on the title of today's topic, it is as contradictory as my anti violent dreams.
While I would not want to watch violence and have infact stopped visiting Facebook because I am not able to watch the gory videos of animals being tortured , I realize that if I see a mosquito , I think of how it will harm me with a disease like malaria or dengue and instinctively I want to destroy it. I am sure I shall even turn equally violent if my loves one is hurt by someone and I wonder will all the mediation and the desire for peace in the world let me forgive the person instantly who has hurt my near and dear one.
It is a question I pray I do jot have to face ever.
However , I feel that meditation will help me deal with the fear of pain, deal with the hurt caused by someone causing pain and at least help me make my contribution on this earth by encouraging people to think from the neo cortex rather than the limbic brain . Respond rather than react.
I do feel that more movies should be made where people win a battle with intelligence and good arguments like the movie pynk rather than win battles with killing people and animals and shedding blood. There should be more movies on how peaceful the world can be when decisions are based on intelligence rather than when decisions are based on instincts . The question here is who will watch those movies .
With Magical Love
Salma Prabhu
Comments
But I have the feeling that violence and self defence are quite different... To me violence is the action resulting out of the desire to hurt or harm someone. If someone harms one of my beloved ones my reaction would be defending them - but not out of the wish to harm the offender but to protect the victim... one could still call it violence but if it comes to the root of people's actions I feel that one should distinguish between those two...
As for revenge I also pray that I will never be in the situation to feel a desire like that... I feel that right would be to pitty the offender for his sick attitude and depending how far his attack went to put him in a place where he can't harm anyone anymore...But never to harm him equally...(As for all ideals the problem would be the realization - we still have to obey to the law of our countries and sometimes the so called justice doesn't seem justified...or even more simple: how to catch a mosquito without harming it and where to put it that it can't bite anyone anymore?)
But it's hard to make a general statement on that topic...
Battle with intelligence and good arguments are needed..will love to watch such type of peaceful, intelligent movies.