Being a Voice of Non-Harm (Ahimsa)
And if we truly understand the nature of yoga and of ahimsa, forcing anything on anyone is antithetical to the practice. And this also kind of gets to the core of how do we know truth? And I think in part truth is it can be known in a spiritual sense, in an embodied sense. But I also think science, as someone that advocates for science and public health, we have these methodologies of science that enable us to see truth in as least biased of a way as humanly possible
And all of us as individuals are operating within a particular time period. We have a particular perspective at a particular place or time in our lives. And so we don't necessarily see the world the way that other people do. And just recognizing ultimately that this practice, that this daily lived, embodied practice of calling out harm, of naming harm that we see occurring in the world, may simply serve the purpose of planting a seed in someone's mind that may not bloom until much later
So thank you very much for doing that. I think it's very enlightening. But while I said that we have come a long way since the days of public beheading and so on, but at the same time on Swell itself. There is a separate conversation going on about rolldale's books and how these words are being changed and so on
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I do think it's partly media related and of course, I don't think that we should be ignoring real war, but at the same time, I don't know what would be a more nonharmful way of trying to combat the harm happening and the real harm happening in the world. That's a hard question to answer. And yeah, I just come back to what I said. I don't think that we can. There's this Buddhist idea of extinguishing suffering like blowing out a candle