Tuesday, September 21, 2021

Justice

For the psychologically mature person, the ills and injustices of life are handled by counter aggression, and which one makes an effort to eliminate the injustice and create justice. Often such efforts are dictatorial, full of anger and self-righteousness. 
In spiritual maturity, the opposite of injustice is not justice, but compassion. Not me against you, not me straightening out the present hill, fighting to gain adjust result for myself and others, but compassion, a life that goes against nothing and fulfills everything.

Always our practice must be the basis for actions. An appropriate and compassionate response does not come from a fight for justice, but from that radical dimension of practice that "passeth is all under standing." It's not easy. Perhaps we go through agonized weeks or months of sitting. But the resolution will come. No person can provide this resolution for us, it can be provided only by our true self if we open wide the gates of practice.

Justice pages 53 to 54, Nothing Special by Charlotte Joko Beck

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