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Originally Posted by Myplanet2
We simply select different perspectives, or ways of viewing, from one another. Neither is right and neither is wrong. They are both right and they are both wrong. It's all a matter of perspective.
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As beings we are able to take as many viewpoints as we want . The more viewpoints we can take the smoother life is .
The point of view we can't take is the limit we set in our own space reducing therefore our freedom and hence the other's freedom too .
Things are becoming uneasy when we get stuck in our points of view so badly that we feel then the need to defend them so strongly that we make others wrong to assert our " rightness " .
People have been burned on a stake for this and wars are fought daily .
I agree with you My Planet2 there is neither right nor wrong in opposition. These concepts arise in the context of rules that some have established where what is right for one may be wrong for the other .
The truth therein is a relative one and yes as you say a matter of perspective.
Therefore we can only turn within to our own truth.. the truth that we are as a being outside the set patterns and bounderies of mental concepts .
There we can find we are one and equal with every other being and judgement no longer exists in terms of right and wrong for we have transcended all dual mechanisms and are now in our Heart. And there lies real freedom . Not something to fight for but a natural state of being when we come to realize we are the observer and there is only Now.
From that place dialogue can take place and peace shared by all .
On Freedom
Kahlil Gibran
At the city gate and by your fireside I have seen you prostrate yourself and worship your own freedom,
Even as slaves humble themselves before a tyrant and praise him though he slays them.
Ay, in the grove of the temple and in the shadow of the citadel I have seen the freest among you wear their freedom as a yoke and a handcuff.
And my heart bled within me; for you can only be free when even the desire of seeking freedom becomes a harness to you, and when you cease to speak of freedom as a goal and a fulfilment.
You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care nor your nights without a want and a grief,
But rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound.
And how shall you rise beyond your days and nights unless you break the chains which you at the dawn of your understanding have fastened around your noon hour?
In truth that which you call freedom is the strongest of these chains, though its links glitter in the sun and dazzle your eyes.
And what is it but fragments of your own self you would discard that you may become free?
If it is an unjust law you would abolish, that law was written with your own hand upon your own forehead.
You cannot erase it by burning your law books nor by washing the foreheads of your judges, though you pour the sea upon them.
And if it is a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed.
For how can a tyrant rule the free and the proud, but for a tyranny in their own freedom and a shame in their own pride?
And if it is a care you would cast off, that care has been chosen by you rather than imposed upon you.
And if it is a fear you would dispel, the seat of that fear is in your heart and not in the hand of the feared.
Verily all things move within your being in constant half embrace, the desired and the dreaded, the repugnant and the cherished, the pursued and that which you would escape.
These things move within you as lights and shadows in pairs that cling.
And when the shadow fades and is no more, the light that lingers becomes a shadow to another light.
And thus your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom.
Peace to all
mudra