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Breaking Down Evil

When you have been treated unjustly or personally harmed, the natural emotion is anger. If this anger can’t get out, it festers and grows in the shadow. Lashing out when holding it back no longer works; this anger leads to a cycle of violence. Guilt can make you feel like a bad person simply for having an impulse or entertaining a thought.
This is a kind of double blind: If you lash out and return the harm done to you, you have done something evil, but if you keep the anger inside and harbor it, you can feel just as evil.
Yet violence can be tamed by breaking it down into manageable bits. Negative emotions feed off certain aspects of the shadow that are very manageable.
The shadow is dark. Everyone has a shadow because of the natural contrast between darkness and the light.
The shadow is secret. We store impulses and feelings there that we wish to keep private.
The shadow is dangerous. Repressed feelings have the power to convince us that they can kill us or make us go insane.
The shadow is shrouded in myth. For generations, people have seen it as the lair of dragons and monsters.
The shadow is irrational. Its impulses fight against reason; they are explosive and totally willful.
The shadow is primitive. It’s beneath the dignity of a civilized person to explore this domain.
A secret, dark, primitive, irrational, dangerous, mythical evil is much less convincing if you break it down into one quality at a time. But this process of bringing evil down to scale won’t be convincing until you apply it to yourself.
Adapted from The Book of Secrets, by Deepak Chopra (Harmony Books, 2004).
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add your comment »Oh dear - Suzanne O's comments are disturbing. I hope your negative thoughts don't attract violence towards you. I moved away from Cape Town 13 yrs ago and mostly remember a more positive side of life there - and my family members are still happy there. There are many more places in the world which are far more dangerous than CT. You are blessed with beautiful surroundings, great weather and hard-working, fun-loving people! Perhaps if you joined peace-loving groups for meditation, volunteering help, even yoga, you may feel better enjoying the company of like-minded people. I certainly hope so as you would heal through giving and receiving love. My Mom used to say: Wherever you go, there you are! I wish you well, Suzanne ... Namaste
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If you are hurt it means you are a live, normal human being. If you don't hurt when people hurt you it means either you have grown immune to bad treatment or you're drugged. I choose to not be drugged and to feel hurt so as to know that I am still alive. Don't ever accept that when somebody hurts you it is your fault. It's just that they are not sensitive to what you are about.
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IF THERE IS ONE THING ABOUT MYSELF I WOULD LIKE TO CHANGE IS THAT I HURT TOO EASILY, ESPECIALLY WHEN PEOPLE SAY THINGS ABOUT U THAT IS NOT TRUE. I AM ASKING GOD TO HELP ME AND TO REACH THE POINT TO PROVE THAM WRONG.
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Breaking down evil. Hmm. It's uncanny, I have no trouble whatsoever speaking,on a stage,in groups etc.(Pat Henry,jr.) Graduated HS in 3 1/2 yrs,can communicate. Perfect attendance nursery-college. Don't have an addictive personality (My husband's family was the opposite). My parents never had company, never drank and worked out as best they could. I watch 4 diabetes(Mom's side)she's blind/she never took a drink. The oldest,11yrs sr. would go to bar/restaurants to meetup in the 60s (and throughout life) in NYC, it was a way of life (Pete Hamill, "A Drinking Life" explains the harder core bar socializers). Sometimes I would get out of the "prison" and get to go. We even saw concerts in Central Park. The parents disallowed company for privacy issues. Their house, their rules,np. I see that lack of socialization is evil. When people don't confer, it breeds secrecy which is very dark.Estes. Solitary confinement & no social discourse is evil work. It happens in prison.If people don't make friends in a gym or library, compete at work, where? A higher class pub/restaurant. BUT, if you are more interested in lifting weights,like me, where do people go to make friends? Where do we go to socialize? If you're "forced" not to have friends when you're blessed w/the miracle of having them, imagine what happens. When are we "allowed" to have fun, have friends? Who's in charge of this prison? How much time's served b4 being released? WHEN GOING THROUGH HELL, KEEP GOING.
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All this creating a peaceful space is fine in a relatively peaceful country but where there is violence, it won't stop soldiers and other gangs from coming into that space and doing what they do best, shattering that peace (to say the least).
It reminds me of a comedy (sadly) where a Buddhist monk was asked what he would do if someone came up and stabbed him with a fork, he said he would not retalliate or even defend himself. Then he was asked what he would do if the attacker continued stabbing him repeatedly and the smiling monk said "I am waiting to die". We all have a choice in violent situations (or places), mine would be to remove myself from that place of violence as soon as possible.
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Suzanne, for your own sake, leave the country, as soon as you can. Get yourself to one of the western countries. You will never find help or peace where you are. By the way 'leftist' is the wrong label for violent people. In the rest of the world leftists are pacifists (remember hippies and flower-power?) and right wing fascists are the violent ones, ie: WW11 Nazis and Neo-Nazis.
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Suzanne we live in this world surrounded by all kinds of different energy. If it exists it's here. The trick is to make yourself invisible to energy that you know is harmful to you. Your life and body will become sanctuary and spa for you. Have you noticed that whatever is on your mind with emotion inevitably pops up into our world? It sounds to me as if you have become too thin skinned. The salt scrubs I previously mentioned will be helpful for you. Is your diet good and balanced? Do you find yourself hearing people think? If you are psi-talented along these lines your first job is to learn how to make it a matter of choice, to thicken up your personal boundaries so that the world isn't just leaking in and it's your choice to listen or not. Do you have regular patterns of physical exercise?Anything that makes you put your attention into your body is grounding. Breathing deliberately, focusing your attention on each breath as it enters and leaves your body is a good way to staying in the present. The challenge is yours to master and the first thing you should do is create a space for yourself that is private,just yours, and nobody's energy can enter unless invited. This should be a mental space, always accessible from wherever you're at at any moment. You must demand your own space in your own head and own it. Then when you are totally aware of what your own mental voice tastes like you can tell the difference between your thoughts and others. All talents demand mastery.
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i suffer from psycho-abuse terrorisation , bullying, evil & can not find effective help/intervention . it is now an intl war being played out in me by these bad people. the govt etc is encouraging killer bloodsport & worse , no-one will take my side ; even counselling groups no longer exist that much in cape town . congo xenophobics at the car park , at the hike spot - they mind-rape & terrorise, harrass, voodoo the whole mountain, let air out my car tyres, steal my mind & take me into the congo - & our officials are enjoying & allowing that they do this to me ; in fact , the leftist males who hate women would like to forbid women to walk or have legs , on any mountain or beach nowadays ; but even the local people are all going this same evil way now.
no-one says 'stop it' , not even my own mother or family , not even the new elitist natural health crowd or meditators or yoga cliques - they all are like this evil way now.
i am not prepared to go to a court & stupid perverse magistrates.
i feel high evil rape or bullying is worse than murder because it wastes away the spirit soul & skin etc etc & these evil types prey on one secretely telepathically all the time long distance. but the u.n. or whoever - big joke.
so i feel people like me should be granted
something like meditation retreats to attain real physical immortality , with one's pets or animals in sanctuary , because i now need to get a new body & birth all by myself fo
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Try and focus on the beautiful things around you flowers, animals beautiful scenery. I used to say a dustbin has beauty when I was painting LOL! When darkness starts to overtake you thing of a blue sky and a beautiful flower, a green hillside, AU outback with salt bush and emu. What ever is beautiful to you, where ever you live, just focus on it a while. God gave us the wonderful gift of beauty. Love to you all.
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We all walk through valleys where the shadow of death dwells, but we have a choise whether to remain in the valley habering the evil response to get even, even intertaining murder. Ps. 23 says we walk through the valley in to the welcoming arms of Jesus who is in the light. He is the only One that remove the pain and give us new life in Himself. Michael with love.
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