Throughout the framework of the World Humanist Discussion board 2022, the Intentional Group Abriendo Futuro (Opening the Future) presents and proposes :
THE DEVELOPMENT OF “NONVIOLENT INTENTIONAL COMMUNITIES”: The Observe of the Golden Rule for the decision of conflicts and the convergence of diversities.
And why is that this observe so essential?
- To construct a nonviolent world, we should first admit that we’re violent.
- Violent after we hurt ourselves or enable ourselves to be harmed.
- When we don’t take cost of our feelings and don’t work on them.
- Once we enable this self-neglect to hurt our family members or strangers in an limitless chain of struggling.
- Day-after-day we do violence to ourselves in a thousand and one methods.
And this psychological violence that’s inside us is among the many types of violence that exist, and even when it doesn’t present itself or if we consider that it solely considerations ourselves (which is unattainable), it’s, in any case, the supply from which all different types of violence spring.
Violence that we are able to solely overcome if we first study to beat our personal violence.
There’s a sensible means of overcoming violence that isn’t to be present in books or within the great phrases of nice philosophers or thinkers. Behind these phrases, there was a piece of statement of the world and of your individual expertise that additionally, you will must do to internalise and observe all this knowledge.
There are lots of methods to work for a greater world. Right here is an train, a observe that shall be helpful in any state of affairs that anguishes, paralyses or demoralises you. An train that you are able to do at any time and that can change your way of thinking, orient your actions and your life in a coherent course.
You’ll assemble your individual smart phrases, the aphorisms that can information your life.
Nonviolence just isn’t resignation, it’s not passivity, it’s not weak spot, quite the opposite, it’s going through the duty of motion for change. It’s BUILDING a brand new actuality.
Textual content by Susana Gomez Cacho
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The Golden Rule of Nonviolence: Studying to deal with others as we wish to be handled
The Golden Rule represents the imaginative and prescient of a brand new and nonviolent mannequin of human relations, proposing that it’s attainable to realize peace, however solely “if we stock that peace inside ourselves and carry it to others.”
It’s from this imaginative and prescient that humanity will develop and evolve, in contradistinction to the mannequin of the violent system by which we grew up, the place many consider within the rule that claims that as a way to finish violence it’s essential to reply with equal violence. This unfavorable and mistaken imaginative and prescient results in perpetual cycles of violence and destruction.
With the intention to carry peace to the world it’s important to “deal with others as we wish to be handled”, studying to transcend our private and social struggling, experiencing that we’re a part of a significant and customary course of that conjures up us in the direction of one aim: humanizing the earth.
This goal of humanizing the earth means believing within the intentional evolution of humanity, having religion in a non-violent future we assemble collectively. When people lose religion sooner or later, life loses which means, confusion and worry grows, and leads us to violence and mutual destruction.
We consider that the spiral of violence ensuing from unfavorable beliefs, prejudices and mutual destruction, may be overcome and reworked into coherent motion and nonviolent habits, by way of the non-public and social reconciliation produced by the observe of the golden rule.
With the appliance of this rule in our life, we’re capable of overcome compulsive behaviour, modify our feelings right into a non-violent course, and select to deal with the opposite as we want to be handled, as a substitute of responding to mistreatment in a mechanical and harmful means. This implies abandoning violence as a legitimate response instrument. On this means, from coherent and unitive actions, a participatory and decentralised society may be constructed with out coercion, with freedom of concepts and beliefs, valuing range and towards all types of discrimination, inequality, and injustice.
That is the precept that orient the creation of our intentional communities based mostly on the golden rule, aiming on the transformation of violent techniques and proposing the imaginative and prescient of an common human nation, that can develop not by indoctrination, however by resonance from a number of people to all.
The Golden Rule doesn’t impose a habits however slightly proposes a really perfect and a mannequin to comply with, the place on the identical time that we advance within the data of our personal life, we perceive that in every one among us lies the longer term and future of human beings, all the time never-ending and eternally rising.
