March 19, 2023
The ‘erosion of free speech’ is well continuing underway since the early 2000’s. Free speech and expression is the lynchpin of freedom. If you can’t say what you believe is true, you are always a slave and controllable. The evolution of humanness is openness to dialog even if it’s a debate. It is the beginning of all wisdom that is to be humble and even admit how wrong you were.
Free speech is an American breath of life and if we don’t have it, it’s like a shortness of breath. People are reactive because of lack of information, lacking skills of communication and a sense of self love to move beyond their unresolved emotional blocks from the early years. With words, most have allowed their amount of lesser openness to selectively close in reactiveness to infinite words and gestures. Lives are literally destroyed today because of division of perceptions and inability to use the ‘skillful means’ to move from arguing to instead have a friendly dialog.
Even this advent recently of trans extremism has occurred on certain fronts. Suddenly, for example, signs reading ‘men’s room’ and ‘woman’s room’ in a church are condemned as discriminatory. Suddenly tens of thousands of people, including children, are begging strangers to give them money so they can undergo medically unnecessary double mastectomies or castrations! I even read that a loving father was jailed because he referred to his daughter as a ‘daughter’, not a ‘son’ and he used the pronoun ‘she’ rather than ‘he’! Even the word ‘racism’ is used to trigger an accusation of someone’s innocent words.
Regular people have got caught up in ‘mind viruses’, I call them ‘group mindsets’ or even a ‘mass psychosis’. We need to protect the right to say what we want and keep to ‘dialog’ rather than reacting verbally, emotionally, and worse cases, hatefully. To dialog is to speak from the calm heart and non reactive mind. Overturning our perceptions of seeing things more deeply from another’s narrative erases the bad habit of a learned inflexibility. Love, even on a practical level, needs to communicate in the light of sensitivity and compassion. Carrying anger, fear, paranoia, and deep seated traumas need the heart to be filled with the heartiest energy known to us – love. Meditation fills the heart which most have running on 1/2 empty. Fill ‘er up with love energy!
Arhata~
