A woman so strong. A woman so brave that she returned over and over to rescue her own as she saw herself in each one of them. Even the stupid among them, she was to liberate them as her view and vibrations were led by seeing herself in each of the suffering slaves. She inspires me. While violence isn’t something I subscribe to normally, I can understand why the legendary slave Harriet Tubman felt it necessary to keep a weapon of defence with her at all times just in case the snakes of betrayal loam their ugly heads along her path of escape to freedom. The gun she carried was not just to be used on the slave master’s bounty hunters but was kept ready to demolish the most lethal of her obstacles and demons among her own people; slaves turned traitors, the snakes between our mattresses, the wolfs in sheep’s skin, the enemy within.
Before each escape she made it clear to the escaping slaves that she would deal with them with fair love. Elimination if they dont love themselves. Paradox huh? She would growl on the faces of all those who wanted to escape with her in the harbor, and say to them, “If you don’t follow me when I go out, I’m going to kill you. Go forward and live or turn back and die.”. Those were harsh but necessary words. She already had used the sword effectively with love and no one dies.
And this reminds me of the simple teacher from Galilee who in my mind was equally crazily daring to say things like “Turn the other cheek, and let them strike you again! Give them love in return for hate. Then Iam thinking, yea geez, its coz you are half God. Its not always easy to love suckers who do you wrong. But since you insist and I respect you, then may be I will always force myself to do so.
Well at least I have been feeling fair towards this teachings from the carpenter's son, especially when I understood that if you must take up the sword, then do it in great reluctance, and only after you have stepped aside time and time again. Remember that I bring you not peace, but a sword,for this Path will separate you from your families and friends, and your enemies will persecute you in their ignorance.”
Yo! remember moses in the wilderness. He had to master his emotions to survive leading a bunch of hebrew runaway slaves. No sooner had they almost found their freedom from their captor than they began little whispers, murmuring and throwing tantrums about being hungry and preferring their slave pumpkins and their captors pallets to the harsh desert conditions they now faced (Exodus 16:3). Men! human beings never cease to amaze me....I will be writting more on this subject matter in a future blog....
But for now, I wonder what kind of a man Moses had to be as I would have kicked some ass and damn them back to slavery if that’s what they wanted. I am so sure Moses may have complained to God about these ungrateful bargers, but, surely, wouldn’t moses have mobilized his lieutenants and colonels to smark the heads of the devious among them, dump them behind or single out the weak quiters and exhausted complainers who did not “get it”? Perhaps dissuade the runaway fugitives from turning back and betraying the entire crew to Pharoah’s army about the whereabouts of the Hebrew camp somewhere in the wilderness? I dont know about you? but that what Iam thinking. what you think?
Who am I kidding, I came to learn that Moses was operating from a vibration higher than the emotions evoked by the complainers. Perhaps he was ahead of the game and knew the old wisdom that every organized group, family, movement, relationship, comradeship will always have wolves in sheep’s skin, traitors, quiters, turncoats, defectors, betrayers, venomous snakes under the mattress and people who will never get it. To hate such people is to betray wisdom and to reflect back on them the very same defeatist low vibrations they emit is not love. That makes me feel better now.
Of course, we must urgue that in a not so primitive civilization, everyone has a right to change heart and to express their convictions even if that means sharing the views of the oppresor against their own kind. They can join the enemies camp if they care as that’s their freedom, will and choice. For, don’t we all prop those that serves our interests and shun those that don’t? At least I do. Most of the time.
In the end, no one makes enemies unless they see what they hate about themselves being reflected in others. Hate is a reflection of what inside of you that stirs your stomach upside down. You cannot love if you have no love inside of you. This gets to be a really challenging battle. How can you do good to and love someone who has just said words about you intended to wound and destroy? How can you not feel anger, and fear, and the hate that rises so easily from them?
Once again I found some pretty useful words from somewhere…. “Love your enemies, or you will not lose them; and if you love them, you will lose enemies while reforming them;” “The mental arrows shot from another’s bow is practically harmless, unless our own thought barbs it. Damn, thats cool stuff.
Indeed it is our pride that makes another’s deed trully pricky and offensive, our big ego that feels hurt by another’s person’s self-assertion and expression. Who is this enemy that you trully should’nt love ? Is it a creature or a thing outside thine own creation? Can you see an enemy, except you first formulate this enemy and then look upon the object of your own conception? whats inside of you I ask? What is it that harms you that resides outside of you?
The wisdom that lay beneath Jesus demand of loving the unlovable is therefore revealed. That If you wish to punish your enemy, you should make him or her hate somebody.For when you hate you suffer. In this context, raise your vibrations to a higher dimension; actively love your enemies even more but ensure you passively eliminate the anger and fear from your own heart by wishing them well while still opposing them.You will be detached from the low vibrations and you will therefore not get hurt by something not attached to you.
It means finding ways of doing good to them, while simultaneously holding unattached love in your consciousness completely without rancor or judgment, and while also resisting the injustice they represent. This way, who wins? In the battle of love and hate, there are no winners or losers, just pure vibrations of beings existing at the dimension they belong to.
I remember this young boy during the presidential campaigns; he stood still planted a gaze on president Obama and asked, “Why do people hate you?” Would it have been a beautiful spectacle if the president’s response went something like, ”well, little son, i dont know why you think people hate me, because I only feel loved. Everywhere I go I see love and feel really loved and blessed than any other time i can remember son! Now go get some good grades, my government is here to support you and to listen to you at all times. Thanks for the question son”.
I think that’s real turning of the other cheek; and the result, the eater becomes the eaten. Perhaps better still would have been for Jesus to announce, hey y’all! I know those suckers are your enemies, which is cool with me. I don’t expect it to be easy goal as y’all human and frail of wisdom sometimes, you all suckers for pride, anger, ego, misjudgment, misinterpretation, misunderstanding, mistake, and all the other foibles and associated crap humans are subject to; but hey I have been around and I know what works really good, trust me on this one; Loving your enemies is as good as speaking the truth. Get behind being too egoistic, bless them and shame the devil that may as well be a resident inside of y’all. Trully I say unto you, all that love heaped onto thy enemies bossoms, you will have shot them for your own good. So why y’all not shoot your enemies with Harriet’s Hubman gun? I mean, Kill them with kindness, damn suckers!
Harriet Hubman made nineteen trips as a “conductor”, risking her life every time, and successfully freed about 300 slaves. She carried a gun and threatened any slave who wanted to turn back.
Yes, kill them with kindness. Silence the damn suckers with kindness. Heap hot coals on dem haters; why? Here’s a “selfish” reason. It’s for our own good.
Hugs to all of you, especially the enemy within me, I salute you.
Wambo
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