It is going to be tough to decide how to respond to the US government in the coming months. Do we wait and see or do we act out of fear and prepare for the worst? I believe that a time is coming where people who are aware and wanting to do the right thing will be severely challenged with balancing the letting go with right action.
I really don’t feel I can sit idly by and watch terrible things happen. But at the same time, I don’t really always know what I can do to change things.
I watched one of the protests in the days after the election. It was a demonstration of white supremacists. The two sides basically just had a stand off in the street where they were yelling at each other. I wonder what was the final tally of the cost of the police protection?
And then on one of the nights I watched as the police in riot gear unloaded on the street in front of my building. I felt a tremendous anger with authority at that moment. The demonstration that particular night did not seem any different than on the previous night.
It has all been a learning experience for me. I have witnessed people who are very serious about these demonstrations and are perhaps the type of people who would resort to violence in just a few seconds’ time. Those people exist on both sides of the issues.
So what is the appropriate response from a purely spiritual perspective? A nonviolent approach would most certainly be called for and perhaps there is some room for a wait and see approach. I do think those who choose the wait and see approach need to be careful that it is not in reality just the path of denial.
Things can change very quickly in this type of environment and we do need to be prepared.
Perhaps the path is one of wait and see and vigilance. Pay attention, pray your prayers, ramp up your practice just a bit. We can make it. Love has to be on our side. Justice has to be on our side. The Truth has to win out.
Peace
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