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burmese military junta
July 2009 
Releasing the need to punish
Posted on May 14th, 2008
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lightenup
lightenup
How everyone can help Myanmar - release the need to punish.
This short podcast reflects a huge step forward that humanity can take as power is removed from those who have wielded it to harm others, to truly bring peace on earth.
http://media.podcastingmanager.com/90716-83959/Media/burma.mp3
This short podcast reflects a huge step forward that humanity can take as power is removed from those who have wielded it to harm others, to truly bring peace on earth.
http://media.podcastingmanager.com/90716-83959/Media/burma.mp3
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Very necessary to be in healing and not in punishing mode. Thanks for this, lightenup. In the recent posts on Teh Power of Light pod, there may be much that resonates with you. I have added a link to your blog here.
The only problem I see with your approach is the right for self-determination by the military junta. We don't have the right to usurp their authority.
Thanks for the link Meenakshi. Healing mode, yes, for all.
Thanks for dropping by heemes.
Understanding why people do horrible things to each other goes a long way towards losing the reactions of hatred and the accompanying desire for revenge and punishment. I would just like people to look at their “requirements” for punishment in order to understand where they come from.
When I spoke of the power being removed, please understand that I meant it as an eventual consequence of ALL the people in the world finally becoming fed up with governments of greed and personal power, not a particular political action. Remember my goal….heaven on earth.
Isn't “getting fed up” a personal decision resulting in action? We can't control others; just ourselves. Autonomy is law.
Ever hear the story of Gandhi and sugar? Spoke volumes to me.
“Mahatma Gandhi and Sugar
A lady brought her son and said he ate too much sugar. She wanted Gandhi to tell him to stop. Gandhi said to bring the child back the next week. The next week she brought the child and Gandhi said “Stop eating sugar child”. And the child did. A month later the lady came back and said “My child has done what you asked, but why could you not have spoken to him the first time I came.” “Lady”, said Gandhi, “a week earlier I was still eating sugar”.
Personal decision? I would say more a personal revelation.
Each has a responsibility for their own decisions, except where they have handed off their sovereign responsibility to others and metaphorically “washed their hands” of their own complicity (a rather famous example comes to mind here……)
I believe getting fed up is something that will happen naturally as people realize how much of their own power they have given away unwittingly to “authorities” that then go and do things with it they would rather not have done. Helping with the realizing part is what I glady do with my poetry, blogs and prayers, and any other which way.
: )