Dealing with hate and intolerance

It’s easy to hate, we all know that, negativity is like the least common denominator.  Constantly going downhill you can hate only to lead yourself to the lowest point of humanity.  Your primal state where you only care about one person, where you only understand one person, where you only listen to one point of view, YOUR OWN.  In that lowly place at the bottom you will be accompanied by other haters, others who like you slipped down without much effort and are there for you to bounce and reinforce your small thinking, your ideas of self-righteousness.  Ignorance is not the result of lack of love, but lack of effort to apply what makes us human to begin with.

Dividing us is easy, we enjoy differences, we enjoy having someone to look down to, someone to consider the ‘enemy’, it takes away from our efforts to improve our own shortcomings.  We coat these divisions with great terms like ‘nationality’ which sugar coat the poisoned minds within our skulls.  Religion, race, nationality, and culture divide us, so easily we are willing to pile on to the negativity that surrounds us.

We all desire our thinking our understanding to be fully accepted by others.  Instead of being challenged we surround ourselves with those who think like us, who will reinforce our mentality.  Who wants to be constantly challenged, that would require work, and it may lead to growth or expanding our understanding!  Most would rather just take the easy way, make a larger group so you never have to hear any other point of view.

Our world constantly is drowned by these individuals, you look online, and you can look in the circles we surround ourselves with.  Anyone who is different than us is open for ridicule, humiliation or disrespect, it’s easy and who doesn't like throwing mud either for fun or to solicit reaction.  At the very list we have tried to tilt the peace of mind of the individual who was the target of our onslaught.

This is where compassion is overpowering.  When hate is thrown your way, it is expected that your response be of the same caliber, hate/negative.  The person who is full of ignorance expects your response to be at their level, and for this they are ready with another reply, to engage you in a battle which leads you down to the same mud/filth they are swimming in themselves.

When egos are attacked we become defensive, angry and argumentative.  We lose our proper judgment to understand that our reaction is not only facilitating to our anguish it is also rarely solves any of the problems we are trying to ‘fix’ to begin with.  Your anger will only lead to either making the situation worse or making your mental state more unstable yet that is the route most take when dealing with ignorance and hate.

However when hate is responded to with compassion that provides two very intriguing benefits:

• The first is that your own peace is not altered; you absorb the negative energy and are able to respond with a clear and conscious state of being.  

• The second it is not something a negative person is used to seeing, so they at times do not have a response.  

They see you as the other, but you see them as a brother, that is when humanity begins to show how powerful love is.  When we overlook the faults of another we practice overlooking our own, when we forgive others, we find it easier to forgive ourselves.  When we realize that nobody is perfect, we understand how far from perfection we ourselves are. 

The truth is when we love others, we love humanity, and we begin to see things not from our ego’s standpoint but somewhere above where we can understand that accepting another is actually just accepting ourselves.