For my t-shirt hobby (it's far away from a business
https://schrondweiler.teemill.com/), I was looking for ideas to create a T-shirt about non violence.
I first arrived on the web site of the King Center that have an interesting glossary
http://www.thekingcenter.org/glossary-nonviolence where I kept 2 key words :
- Ahisma, which means more or less non violence (« a » for non and « hisma » for violence)
- Satyagraha which is best defined by a quote “Satyagraha is literally holding on to Truth and it means, therefore, Truth-force. Truth is soul or spirit. It is, therefore, known as soul-force.” M. K. Gandhi
When googling both words, I followed different links and had the feeling that in Gandhi’s concept, holding on to the truth seems more important than non violence. Non violence would be to be the way to act, but holding the truth is the corner stone that is required if non violence is to be used.
About satyagraha, I found 2 interesting links,
Here are some quotes
"Gandhi believed in the scientific method of:
- accumulation and presentation of evidence;
- review of the logical processes employed for arriving at a conclusion;
- joint examination of these processes and evidence;
- replaying that tape by which one has arrived at a conclusion so that one may detect the point where divergence commenced;
- investigating whether the refusal to see evidence and logic is the result of ego-centric attitudes and perceptions and if it is found that this is what leads to intransigence, then
divesting oneself of ego-based considerations that have only a limited place within the unalterable paradigm of interdependence that rules humanity; - reassuring the “adversary” that the effort is not to deny his needs and interests, while promoting introspection in the adversary through love and the readiness to suffer (voluntary suffering).
In spite of all these efforts on one’s part, one may not be able to dissolve intransigence on the other side. Such a situation where all efforts of persuasion seem to have failed would demand Direct Action."
"Nonviolent non-cooperation and Civil Disobedience can be effective only if operational conditions are controlled to prevent the outbreak of violence, and loss of control by the leadership of a struggle. Gandhi firmly believed that two antagonistic forces could not work to supplement each other. »
I just wanted to say that it looks like we are doing a good job, that it is important to go forward. I feel that always more people are aware that things have to change. I believe that we are right, that we have to hold to it and that, walking the walk, we are somehow doing a direct action to change the game. Let's continue.
