Thread by @LivingSamsara

If you really want to make a change in the world, do something hard like #nonviolent #resistance. Read up and learn #satyagraha or change. It takes #strength & #courage; physical force is forbidden even in the so-called most favorable circumstances.

satyagrahafoundation.org/satyagraha-the…

If your cause is #righteous, Gandhi believed, the movement would speak for itself.

My personal justification for it is #psychological/#neurological (#CNS/#HPA).

If you use #violence, well the one with the biggest #ego or the biggest ego-extension (guns, tanks, war) will win.

Removing tools of violence (words, arms) from the equation, you form a mirror.

It's not easy though. You'd have to refine/drop/manage/elevate past your own #ego.

People - depending on personal history & psychology - sometimes become enraged at what they see in the #mirror.

If you've ever been in an argument with someone elevated past their #ego (for the moment or chronically; or maybe you've been the one who was playing mirror); you may notice the burning out of your #anger, your #samskaras, and you eventually got to "They are right."

This scenario is a smaller scale of #Satyagraha.

The #consciousness must be moving in this direction for #righteous change.

If not, #violence continues ping-ponging and some countries decide on a wannabe #fascist dictator who, at least, keeps them safe "feeling."

OR an uprising of #violent #citizenry keep law-abiding citizens down and shackled (think here of the Mexican Cartel).

So. My argument for #Nonviolence is here and it can be used anywhere in life and I hope we consider it before it's too late.

#CivilDisobedience #Activism

PS. Colin Kaepernick was engaged in #TakingAKnee & #NonviolentResistance and it wasn't a hint; it was #TheWay.

Looking to others like to #MLK and #Gandhi for success in #change... Learn some damn #history through the #privilege of #Google at your fingertips.

@threadreaderapp unroll please and teach these fools a thing or two