Turning the other cheek

[Guest guest]

" But I tell you, Do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you

on the right cheek, turn to him the other also. " -- Matthew 5:39

 

What the heck is Jesus talking about here? Watchin the news today we

can read about a suicide bomber killing over 100 people in Iraq. How

insane isn't that? On an eartly level we can see that such act is

outrageous. On a divine level we don't know. But on a rational sane

level such act is clearly not good.

 

So what did Jesus mean by turning the other cheek? Should we let

people rob us, trample on us? Clearly not. We must come to a divine

realization, a realization of that we and the enemy are one and the same.

 

This is perfectly illustrated in the third Matrix movie where Neo,

after having fought agent Smith in a titanic battle, says: " You were

right Smith, it was inevitably " , and with that Neo surrenders and he

lets agent Smith do what he wants to. Agent Smith turns Neo into

himself, thereby obliterating Neo. After that agent Smith himself (and

all his clones) becomes obliterated in a flash of light.

 

Neo turned agent Smith the other cheek, and they were both

obliterated, or integrated if you will, by _embracing_ the enemy by

turning the other cheek, because he then knew he and agent Smith was

the same entity; thus Neo transcended himself.

 

/AL

[Guest guest]

Nisargadatta , " anders_lindman "

<anders_lindman> wrote:

>

> " But I tell you, Do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes

you

> on the right cheek, turn to him the other also. " -- Matthew 5:39

>

> What the heck is Jesus talking about here? Watchin the news today

we

> can read about a suicide bomber killing over 100 people in Iraq.

How

> insane isn't that? On an eartly level we can see that such act is

> outrageous. On a divine level we don't know. But on a rational sane

> level such act is clearly not good.

>

 

 

G:One of the " difficult " things about the bible is that it promotes

a form of psuedo-psychology. It offers vague fragmented sentences

and people develope entire sects around it with fear tactics and

guilt trips damning those non-conformist/non-believers to hell or

rewarding them to heaven. Not to mention that the bible is so full

of contradictory statements (one example is the topic of faith vs

grace) that the believers little heads are spinning and their caught

up in the obedience factor thereby relinquishing their ability to

reason and see these contradictions.

These sort of ideas (scriptures) offer little to nothing in the way

of providing actual useable coping skills whereby allowing fear and

obedience to be replaced with common sense using cause and effect

and choice. I don't usually read your posts AL but I like your

analogy of the Neo/Smith Matrix 3 movie. I'll have to watch that

now.

 

~*~ G.