Completing the cycle of destruction
I refer to the letter London blasts: An open letter to the killers .
The bombings were basically a kind of communication for a correct social order, a way of letting the other party know that they have transgressed and therefore a method of preventing violence and not causing it.
But there is never any justification for violence. There is no justification for hatred. There is no justification for murder. The reaction in anger can be the most arousing and therapeutic emotion under these circumstances
Those who indulge in violence for whatever reason are themselves changed, and the purity of their purpose adultered.
In our society, the natural communication of aggression has broken down. We have confused violence with aggression and restrain the communicative elements of aggression while ignoring its many positive values, until its natural power becomes dammed up, naturally exploding into violence. Violence is therefore a distortion of aggression.
Behind them, we will almost always find an inhibited impulse, or many of them, that motivated us to move in some ideal direction - to seek love or understanding so idealised in our minds that it seems impossible to achieve. Then we are left with the impulse to strike out.
Some people are only aware of, or largely aware of, impulses toward anger, because they have inhibited those natural impulses toward love that would otherwise temper what seemed to be aggressive impulses.
Hate creates destruction on earth and until the lessons are learned, destruction follows destruction. In the terms of other systems, that kind of destruction does not exist - but we believe that it does, and the agonies of dying are sorely felt. It is not that we must be taught not to destroy, for destruction does not actually exist. It is that we must be trained to create responsibly.
The weapons of destruction are the obvious things that we see. The counterparts are not so evident, and yet it is the counterparts that are important: the self-discipline learned, the control, the compassion that is finally aroused, and that final and last lesson - the positive desire for creativity and love over destruction and hatred.
When this is learned, the cycle is finished.


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