fighting....

Anything can be or become a fight. Anything can be and is a stress. All may be happy, funny, light, etc.. etc.. The same things can be sad, harsh, heavy, etc. etc. Judgements, bothers, rewards, punishments. Things are the same and things are different based upon the observer and his/her perception which is based on many, many factors.

We make distinctions and sometimes those distinctions are judgements which we feel or think. They are emotional or intellectual. In any case - the more judgements the less indifference and indifference is the great evil. The content go to hell. Those who don't care are without any cares! As long as we make judgments the more we are actively relating to what is beyond ourselves. We may describe or analyse something in an apparent neutral way but in any case they are judgements at some level. Something is more blue than green. Something is 100 degrees F. and that is hotter than something which is 80 degrees F. More or less hot. More or less blue. The less we judge the less we relate. The more indifferent we appear and become. Indifference is a way of rejecting relating. Indifference is the ultimate rejection. Or so it may seem.

I have felt and thought that indifference sucks. Silence and indifference is rejection. Is Silence Golden? Silence IS peaceful. The dead do not make much noise. The dead are rejected. Do they also reject? Suicides are said to reject! How does it feel when one is ostracized? When one is excommunicated? When one is not listened to? When respect is not given? Do such thing suck? Do they feel badly?


OR.... AND... ETC.....:

There are several posts I have written but which are now in "draft". I will probably go back and publish or delete them... BUT today? --- why not publish. And about what? Well.... I have been thinking - what is peace? What is silence? What is love? What is hate? And then what are people's responsibilities to each other and to their communities? Ah... but peace IS THE THING/GOAL and silence is soo often recommended. Keep silent. Don't respond. Don't argue. Don't fight. Don't even bring any difficult things up... no matter how tactful. Really !!! that is what is soo often recommended. And then Rabbi Nachman says - be happy. Don't be depressed. Don't get into a dark space.