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Love your enemies. Bless those who curse you.

Nonviolent Responses to Terror & Injustice
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Friday 3 February - Week 1, Day 5

Non-Intervention

"The very softest thing of all
can ride like a galloping horse through the hardest of things.

Like water, like water penetrating rock.
And so the invisible enters in.

That is why I know it is wise to act by doing nothing.
And how few, how very few understand this.

People teach in the world what I know to be true:
if you live violently, that is how you will die."

Lao Tsu, Tao Te Ching

Sometimes when we want to intervene in a conflict situation, we bring our own anger to bear, and want to impose our will, our solution. By holding back, by non-intervention, we can release our anger; when we do take action, it can flow with the natural course of events, not against it - wei wu wei - doing without doing, effortless action.


Today

Pause before you intervene in situations today and consider the option of non-action, of observing and of waiting until your purpose is clear.

Find out more about Lao Tsu, his teaching and philosopy when and where he lived, and about the Tao Te Ching - The Way of Nature and its Virtue.

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As salamu alaykum wa rahmetullah wa barakatu hu
May Peace be upon you and the infinite mercy and blessings of Allah

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