Zen-Haven May 30 2013
When you see ugliness, become ever more pretty, when you see racism, love and accept everyone, when people are agitated and violent, be calm and peaceful.
When they are arrogant and nasty, be humble and tender. When they are stingy and cold, be warm and generous. And when you see the fundamentalists run!
The greatest self-defense is tenderness.
If you are tender, nothing ghoulish will come your way and in that tenderness and love for humanity you are saying that while you have a compassion and forgiveness for the world of the psychopaths that are running the joint, you are not condoning their actions and buying into their nightmares and their bad karma.
Deep in your feelings you have to walk away so the tragedy of the world doesn’t become your tragedy.
Arrogance and violence will get the world killed; humility and softness will take you to a celestial place. Yin wins in the end! The goddess and Gaia and the nature-soul of the planet is more powerful than the yang, silly leaders and dusty armies.
Come now, come to softness.