I don't think it is wise to love your enemies regardless of the motivations of the enmity. It is wiser to forgive him of his mistakes, provided that first he repented them.
I agree with you on this, I am not religious at all but I do believe that Jesus was one of the greatest teachers, he was most likely a real person but the church has made him into something holy and unrealistic. I'll read the tomorrow's theme and see if I can add something of value.
I've recently been leaning toward the teachings of the Buddha - not in a religious context, being that this was not his original intent. My wife and I did a 10 day silent retreat where we learned to do vipassana; the type of meditation that the Buddha did in order to reach enlightenment.
What I found most interesting was how the teacher taught us to forget about the traditions, rituals and nonsense of all religions and focus on the science of observing the sensations on the body while not reacting.
After many sometimes agonizing hours of this introspection, some amazing things begin to happen. For one, you begin to realize on a fundamental level that everything is impermanent. Most notable pain and fear. You also learn that fear can always be broken down to lack of understanding.
The sheer act of observing the sensations of things like fear and pain without reaction eventually causes them to subside. Over the course of a lot of time meditating, you one by one eliminate the attributes that enslave you, such as cravings and aversions.
What you are left with is pure love and understanding with profound wisdom. Well, I hope to attain that someday but still have a long way to go!
Learning to guess less of a fuck about people that you dislike is probably a good thing to do, forgiving even better, but actually showing them real love might just be a step too far.
Hmmmm, it is a very strong one. To love your enemies and those who hurt you or do you wrong... It is not easy but with God's grace it can be achieved, I do keep grudges before. I was a pro in keeping grudges and having this revenging spirit always at alert not until my dad called me one day and said to me when you revenge does it change anything.I also learnt keeping grudges only makes you heavy and unable to move forward. It is not easy but I always pray God gives me the strength to love my enemies, forgive them and forget what they did. Nice post, thanks
Once I learned to love my "enemies" I realized I never had ones. In german we call them "Arschengel" (badass angels), because they mirror me where I am doing wrong.
Wow what a great piece, well just like you said it's never easy to love your enemies but as the Bible has instructed us we have No excuse. Permit me to come this way please "it's 100percent possible that we will never be appreciated enough for our good works but we just don't have to look at what the world can offer us but what we can offer the world" for if everyone should have this mindset and share the view the world well truly be free of hate and will become a better place for us all.
I really like it..... you spread great wisdom, cheer, and spirit all over the Steem blockchain and hopefully someday it will echo all over the internet!
I love the Martin Luther King Jr. Saying:
"Love is the only thing that can turn an enemy into a friend"
I usually have a quiet time of just being, meditation and prayer when I first awake in the morning. This morning I was running late and hadn't done that yet when I saw your touching post.
I believe that, even though very hard at times, we can all be kind. However rich or poor we are we have kindness that we can share.
There's just too much hate in today's world and we can each help to dilute it with one on one love for all creatures.
My good friend, I agree with you in all you said about love. I also want to add that 1 Cor. 13 says that love does not count wrong, it is patient and kind, it bears all things and most importantly, love does not end and that is why God loved us with an everlasting love. Thanks for sharing.
Am so happy I could find posts like this, where people can talk about God and his lavished love and how we are to be a reflection of him. At first I thought the platform was all about steem, and stuffs. But am more comfortable now knowing there are lovers of God. Thanks for the nuggets.
On loving our enemies, in as much as it seems a difficult thing to do, our desire should be to obey God and please him. For he God loved we world and gave his only son even when we would have been termed enemies.
This is why we have the holy spirit. That is part of his ministry. It's not something we can do by our own might
This right here was what i needed to read at this point. Loving people who go out of their way to offend you,is one i am yet to master. Thanks for sharing your struggles and thoughts with us
This is truly inspiring. So much good can come if we learn to not focus on our hatred but of our love for the world. Even if you aren't religious so many good principles of equality and forgiveness can be learned from it.
Yeshua (Jesus) certainly had great knowledge that he bestowed upon humanity. The challenges are there for testing and to help us grow if we so choose to do so. Growth is a very difficult thing because many would rather be comfortable than go through the uncomfortable process of change. Love certainly is a great answer. Even he gave a simple answer to SO many laws that were given to the Jewish people and summed them up to "loving God/loving each other," since they cover the rest of the laws. Great post!
@hanshotfirst this is such a sweet post. '"Jesus, and many other great teachers, taught that people should love everyone." This is the greatest lesson of life in my opinion. Something I heard recently is that comfort kills dreams, so creating challenges for ourselves I believe is a must. For example I had always wanted to start a blog..and talked about it too, I came across this platform and didn't do anything for a while, until I decided to put my doubts aside. This was the best decision for me in 2017. Hoping to start a video blog...now that's a totally new challenge. Really loved this message.
Re- esteem :) Best wishes.
Love is God's gift to mankind, the fulfillment of having to light up someone's life is amazing.. We all need to show love and be kind to man. Thanks for this awesome post.
@hanshotfirst - loving your enemy might often sound a bit too utopian, and it's often ont possible humanly to simply decide to love somebody one fine day and then do it. BUT, there's one thing that we can do - we can definitely forget that person - and forgiving somebody for a wrong they did not only helps us move forward but also helps us cast all negativity from our mind and give us the peace that would evade us otherwise.
Love an enemy? Maybe not Practical, but Forgive? Definitely possible though it is challenging.
One of the best way to kill your enemies is being a friend of them so that we know their weaknesses and we can teach them that we are not as bad as the think..
Thanks for sharing such a unique moral post I am impressed to read it
Well I want to ad here that it is very difficult to love your enemies but not impossible so keep on loving guys and enjoying loving to all so you will get more and more love. Wonderful effort @hanshotfirst keep it up
Love an enemy? Maybe not Practical, but Forgive? Definitely possible though it is challenging.
Thank you for this amazing and inspiring post, dear @hanshotfirst! This is a topic I philosophize and meditate a lot about! True love dosen't expect anything in return. True love just exists. Loving your enemies is very, very hard as our ego is vulnerable and wants to defend itself. But if we overcome it and are able to love our enemies, wonders can happen! I am not a religious person as well, but I consider myself as a spiritual person. Jesus and a lot of other spiritual teachers inspire us to reach this precious state of unconditional love for everyone. And it is something I work on every day! :) It's very inspiring and motivating to see that there are other souls out there who feel the same! Thank your very much and be blessed! :)
Thank you for this amazing and inspiring post, dear @hanshotfirst! This is a topic I philosophize and meditate a lot about! True love dosen't expect anything in return. True love just exists. Loving your enemies is very, very hard as our ego is vulnerable and wants to defend itself. But if we overcome it and are able to love our enemies, wonders can happen! I am not a religious person as well, but I consider myself as a spiritual person. Jesus and a lot of other spiritual teachers inspire us to reach this precious state of unconditional love for everyone. And it is something I work on every day! :) It's very inspiring and motivating to see that there are other souls out there who feel the same! Thank your very much and be blessed! :)
Love is the ultimate gift of God to human kind.
God's greatest love for us is endless and unconditional.
Thank you for a great opportunity to share in the word of God.
Loving enemies and people who hurt us can be a very hard thing to do. I've been there. But there's no escaping it, we just have to forgive and let go. In turn, freeing ourselves.
Impossible is nothing! Accept the challenge and take it on...
I might have a thing or two to contribute on tomorrow's theme. Wait for it...
Thanks for sharing Sir
BTW, please where can I get the link to tomorrow's video? The website?
Several community members have already followed @gavvet's lead and have created #lighttheworld posts of their own. Now we need someone from the community to inspire others on day 9. Tomorrow's theme is: "I was sick, and ye visited me. " You can find more information here.
According to Jesus Christ,He says that we must love everyone even our enemies. According to the story of the good samaritan, the samarian man help the wounded sojourner without knowing him.....
I guess it's more of a duty to create humanity among people. This not only benefits them, but change a lot within you.
The least I can do is to create a post #9. I'll recommend same to all. The more we do this, more harmony is created :)
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Thanks so much @hanshotfirst for bringing to us this message of love: love for God, neighbors and especially those who despise us. A big challenge as said, but we shall try our best to do our best.
I don't think it is wise to love your enemies regardless of the motivations of the enmity. It is wiser to forgive him of his mistakes, provided that first he repented them.
I think forgiveness is a great first step... and one that I can actually do.
I agree with you on this, I am not religious at all but I do believe that Jesus was one of the greatest teachers, he was most likely a real person but the church has made him into something holy and unrealistic. I'll read the tomorrow's theme and see if I can add something of value.
I think the "unrealistic" part all depends on faith.
"In Lak'ech Ala K'in"
Ancient saying from the Mayans. Translated roughly to "I am you, and you are another me."
A beautiful step toward treating your "neighbor" as yourself. They are you.
Great post!
That is beautiful! I have never heard that.
More challenging than loving your enemy? Well, there's: Setting up an IOTA wallet (I know, that's profane)
https://steemit.com/iota/@rockwellontherun/imagine-iota-would-have-a-wallet
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I love this saying. If we treated everyone like this there would be less hatred and misunderstandings leading to hostilities.
No sailor became expert by a calm sea...
very wise! thank you!
I've recently been leaning toward the teachings of the Buddha - not in a religious context, being that this was not his original intent. My wife and I did a 10 day silent retreat where we learned to do vipassana; the type of meditation that the Buddha did in order to reach enlightenment.
What I found most interesting was how the teacher taught us to forget about the traditions, rituals and nonsense of all religions and focus on the science of observing the sensations on the body while not reacting.
After many sometimes agonizing hours of this introspection, some amazing things begin to happen. For one, you begin to realize on a fundamental level that everything is impermanent. Most notable pain and fear. You also learn that fear can always be broken down to lack of understanding.
The sheer act of observing the sensations of things like fear and pain without reaction eventually causes them to subside. Over the course of a lot of time meditating, you one by one eliminate the attributes that enslave you, such as cravings and aversions.
What you are left with is pure love and understanding with profound wisdom. Well, I hope to attain that someday but still have a long way to go!
But it is a journey worth taking!
Learning to guess less of a fuck about people that you dislike is probably a good thing to do, forgiving even better, but actually showing them real love might just be a step too far.
Perhaps... but how much can one improve by making the attempts to achieve such a seemingly impossible goal?
Hmmmm, it is a very strong one. To love your enemies and those who hurt you or do you wrong... It is not easy but with God's grace it can be achieved, I do keep grudges before. I was a pro in keeping grudges and having this revenging spirit always at alert not until my dad called me one day and said to me when you revenge does it change anything.I also learnt keeping grudges only makes you heavy and unable to move forward. It is not easy but I always pray God gives me the strength to love my enemies, forgive them and forget what they did. Nice post, thanks
Once I learned to love my "enemies" I realized I never had ones. In german we call them "Arschengel" (badass angels), because they mirror me where I am doing wrong.
Wow what a great piece, well just like you said it's never easy to love your enemies but as the Bible has instructed us we have No excuse. Permit me to come this way please "it's 100percent possible that we will never be appreciated enough for our good works but we just don't have to look at what the world can offer us but what we can offer the world" for if everyone should have this mindset and share the view the world well truly be free of hate and will become a better place for us all.
Thank you for this encouraging post @hanshotfirst
I really like it..... you spread great wisdom, cheer, and spirit all over the Steem blockchain and hopefully someday it will echo all over the internet!
I love the Martin Luther King Jr. Saying:
"Love is the only thing that can turn an enemy into a friend"
Peace ✌, Hope 🙏, & Love 💖!
Loving your enemies is one of the hardest Jesus' teaching that is only possible obey by Love. Love wins.
I usually have a quiet time of just being, meditation and prayer when I first awake in the morning. This morning I was running late and hadn't done that yet when I saw your touching post.
I believe that, even though very hard at times, we can all be kind. However rich or poor we are we have kindness that we can share.
There's just too much hate in today's world and we can each help to dilute it with one on one love for all creatures.
That is why I love this initiative. It is all about kindness.
My good friend, I agree with you in all you said about love. I also want to add that 1 Cor. 13 says that love does not count wrong, it is patient and kind, it bears all things and most importantly, love does not end and that is why God loved us with an everlasting love. Thanks for sharing.
Am so happy I could find posts like this, where people can talk about God and his lavished love and how we are to be a reflection of him. At first I thought the platform was all about steem, and stuffs. But am more comfortable now knowing there are lovers of God. Thanks for the nuggets.
On loving our enemies, in as much as it seems a difficult thing to do, our desire should be to obey God and please him. For he God loved we world and gave his only son even when we would have been termed enemies.
This is why we have the holy spirit. That is part of his ministry. It's not something we can do by our own might
This right here was what i needed to read at this point. Loving people who go out of their way to offend you,is one i am yet to master. Thanks for sharing your struggles and thoughts with us
Me either. It is incredibly difficult. But maybe by trying it helps.
What an awesome article that was truly awesome and yeah love is the only thing that bring peace !!!
This is truly inspiring. So much good can come if we learn to not focus on our hatred but of our love for the world. Even if you aren't religious so many good principles of equality and forgiveness can be learned from it.
yeah...
you are right. But now a days peoples are busy to fight each others without love each others
If we love each others we can make a beautiful world.
I Agree. Sometimes we are so caught up in the rat race of our everyday lives, that we don't see the hurt in others that are right next to us...
Yeshua (Jesus) certainly had great knowledge that he bestowed upon humanity. The challenges are there for testing and to help us grow if we so choose to do so. Growth is a very difficult thing because many would rather be comfortable than go through the uncomfortable process of change. Love certainly is a great answer. Even he gave a simple answer to SO many laws that were given to the Jewish people and summed them up to "loving God/loving each other," since they cover the rest of the laws. Great post!
@hanshotfirst this is such a sweet post. '"Jesus, and many other great teachers, taught that people should love everyone." This is the greatest lesson of life in my opinion. Something I heard recently is that comfort kills dreams, so creating challenges for ourselves I believe is a must. For example I had always wanted to start a blog..and talked about it too, I came across this platform and didn't do anything for a while, until I decided to put my doubts aside. This was the best decision for me in 2017. Hoping to start a video blog...now that's a totally new challenge. Really loved this message.
Re- esteem :) Best wishes.
Good luck! I think you came to the right place.
Thank you :)
I think challenge is very important for progress, it keeps you motivated and when you finally make it the satisfaction is always higher.
Love is God's gift to mankind, the fulfillment of having to light up someone's life is amazing.. We all need to show love and be kind to man. Thanks for this awesome post.
Thank your very much for this wonderful and amazing post, to be loved you must love your self, then its easy to love people and to be loved !
@hanshotfirst - loving your enemy might often sound a bit too utopian, and it's often ont possible humanly to simply decide to love somebody one fine day and then do it. BUT, there's one thing that we can do - we can definitely forget that person - and forgiving somebody for a wrong they did not only helps us move forward but also helps us cast all negativity from our mind and give us the peace that would evade us otherwise.
Love an enemy? Maybe not Practical, but Forgive? Definitely possible though it is challenging.
I agree 100%. Forgiving is one of the best things we can do for others... and ourself. But it is not easy.
One of the best way to kill your enemies is being a friend of them so that we know their weaknesses and we can teach them that we are not as bad as the think..
Thanks for sharing such a unique moral post I am impressed to read it
Well I want to ad here that it is very difficult to love your enemies but not impossible so keep on loving guys and enjoying loving to all so you will get more and more love. Wonderful effort
@hanshotfirst keep it up
I like your post .I believe that Challenges make us stronger.
Love an enemy? Maybe not Practical, but Forgive? Definitely possible though it is challenging.
Thank you for this amazing and inspiring post, dear @hanshotfirst! This is a topic I philosophize and meditate a lot about! True love dosen't expect anything in return. True love just exists. Loving your enemies is very, very hard as our ego is vulnerable and wants to defend itself. But if we overcome it and are able to love our enemies, wonders can happen! I am not a religious person as well, but I consider myself as a spiritual person. Jesus and a lot of other spiritual teachers inspire us to reach this precious state of unconditional love for everyone. And it is something I work on every day! :) It's very inspiring and motivating to see that there are other souls out there who feel the same! Thank your very much and be blessed! :)
We are on the exact same page. Thank you for the thoughtful response.
Thank you for this amazing and inspiring post, dear @hanshotfirst! This is a topic I philosophize and meditate a lot about! True love dosen't expect anything in return. True love just exists. Loving your enemies is very, very hard as our ego is vulnerable and wants to defend itself. But if we overcome it and are able to love our enemies, wonders can happen! I am not a religious person as well, but I consider myself as a spiritual person. Jesus and a lot of other spiritual teachers inspire us to reach this precious state of unconditional love for everyone. And it is something I work on every day! :) It's very inspiring and motivating to see that there are other souls out there who feel the same! Thank your very much and be blessed! :)
Love is the ultimate gift of God to human kind.
God's greatest love for us is endless and unconditional.
Thank you for a great opportunity to share in the word of God.
Loving enemies and people who hurt us can be a very hard thing to do. I've been there. But there's no escaping it, we just have to forgive and let go. In turn, freeing ourselves.
Impossible is nothing! Accept the challenge and take it on...
I might have a thing or two to contribute on tomorrow's theme. Wait for it...
Thanks for sharing Sir
BTW, please where can I get the link to tomorrow's video? The website?
Several community members have already followed @gavvet's lead and have created #lighttheworld posts of their own. Now we need someone from the community to inspire others on day 9. Tomorrow's theme is: "I was sick, and ye visited me. " You can find more information here.
Thank you Sir
Im glad i found your post.
I felt lead to contribute to the day nine challenge
https://steemit.com/lighttheworld/@growlittleseeds/lighttheworld-challenge-9-when-i-was-sick-ye-visited-me-matthew-25-36
From
Persephone
According to Jesus Christ,He says that we must love everyone even our enemies. According to the story of the good samaritan, the samarian man help the wounded sojourner without knowing him.....
I guess it's more of a duty to create humanity among people. This not only benefits them, but change a lot within you.
The least I can do is to create a post #9. I'll recommend same to all. The more we do this, more harmony is created :)
exceptional article to motivate people.
Thank you for the most inspiring post ultimate gift of God.
Best thing to read Today wow.. simply magical your words and thoughts+ every single words is Inspirational...you made my day by sharing and writing this... thank you so much.. Beautiful.. again👍😀💐👏👏👏👏👏👏
Jesus is teach are the greats teach that can transform and kind both economically and spirituality
Great post, very inspirational
that,s the bravery and a great positive step toward peaceful living and the willingness of almighty Allah. incredible article!
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yes, It's difficult to showing love to enemy. but its very important to win. #lighttheworld
love couldn't stop Martin Luther King Jr's killer from pulling the trigger ...
Great post
Niceeee post..
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Thanks so much @hanshotfirst for bringing to us this message of love: love for God, neighbors and especially those who despise us. A big challenge as said, but we shall try our best to do our best.
How do i get tommorow's video i need to participate
Sorry for the delay. All of the videos can be found here
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Excellent I definitely want to get into that project, by the way, I'll follow you.
True but God will never put you in a predicament you can't handle