Re: CREDO CLV Injustice

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Hear hear! This is so true and so necessary to hear. Thank you.Jim

 

 

 

 

CREDO CLV

Injustice

 

            Pearl Buck, the writer, who lived in China, wrote this memory of waiting on a  station platform with a Chinese grandmother and her grandson and daughter. The kittle boy did something naughty and blamed his sister. The grandmother spanked the little girl who protested her innocence in vain. Buck could not refrain from telling the old woman the truth. She shrugged it off saying, “It doesn’t matter, it is more important that my grandchildren learn early that injustice falls, sooner or later,  justly on us all,” The train came and the trio left Buck with a new insight.

 

            I learned that when I was three in my grandfather, Basil King’s house in Cambridge, Massachusetts. My nurse Nanny accused me of wiping my bottom, pointing to the toilet paper in the bowl. Apparently, I was too young to do this properly. She always did this for me. I was innocent but got scolded fiercely, and the awful truth that grownups could be fallible dawned on me at an early age! I had thought them omniscient. Never again!

 

            As I am now almost 90, you can see how profound a revelation this was! Since then I have suffered unjust punishments over and over, as I am sure my readers have as well. Perhaps they make up for the things we get away with.

 

            I wrote these conclusions once to console a friend who suffered a false accusation and was deeply hurt and offended. I wish I could thank her for making me aware that this is an archetypal human condition. That Chinese grandmother was very wise.

 

            These days, the news brings us tale after tale of horrible injustices, leaving us with  the agonizing question of why so much suffering has to be? False imprisonment abounds. The Greeks, I believe, though I am not certain,  sculpted a woman holding the weighing scales for measurement. She is blindfolded. Justice is blind.

Some would argue that this is karma but if that is so, we should benefit by the Chinese grandmother’s conclusion:

Injustice falls justly into the lives of us all.

 

 

           

           

           

[Guest guest]

There is the enigma - are we to merely accept injustices because we wish to be excused of the ones we have committed? Some of us do learn "from the equation" and try not to put ourselves in the position of being in the proverbial glass house. And so do from time to time cast a stone. For me only after looking in the mirror. To: JUNG-FIRE Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 4:28 PM Subject: Re: CREDO CLV Injustice

Hear hear! This is so true and so necessary to hear. Thank you.Jim

CREDO CLV

Injustice

Pearl Buck, the writer, who lived in China, wrote this memory of waiting on a station platform with a Chinese grandmother and her grandson and daughter. The kittle boy did something naughty and blamed his sister. The grandmother spanked the little girl who protested her innocence in vain. Buck could not refrain from telling the old woman the truth. She shrugged it off saying, “It doesn’t matter, it is more important that my grandchildren learn early that injustice falls, sooner or later, justly on us all,†The train came and the trio left Buck with a new insight.

I learned that when I was three in my grandfather, Basil King’s house in Cambridge, Massachusetts. My nurse Nanny accused me of wiping my bottom, pointing to the toilet paper in the bowl. Apparently, I was too young to do this properly. She always did this for me. I was innocent but got scolded fiercely, and the awful truth that grownups could be fallible dawned on me at an early age! I had thought them omniscient. Never again!

As I am now almost 90, you can see how profound a revelation this was! Since then I have suffered unjust punishments over and over, as I am sure my readers have as well. Perhaps they make up for the things we get away with.

I wrote these conclusions once to console a friend who suffered a false accusation and was deeply hurt and offended. I wish I could thank her for making me aware that this is an archetypal human condition. That Chinese grandmother was very wise.

These days, the news brings us tale after tale of horrible injustices, leaving us with the agonizing question of why so much suffering has to be? False imprisonment abounds. The Greeks, I believe, though I am not certain, sculpted a woman holding the weighing scales for measurement. She is blindfolded. Justice is blind.

Some would argue that this is karma but if that is so, we should benefit by the Chinese grandmother’s conclusion:

Injustice falls justly into the lives of us all.

[Guest guest]

Responding to 'injustice' toward oneself with anything except introspection and learning is simply attachment to the way one thinks one is - the point is that one is NOT only what one thinks one is but also everything that everyone else (and indeed every thing) takes one to be too.

Responding with compassion and even 'righteous anger' (as long as fueled by compassion and kindness for everyone involved including  the perpetrator) when someone else is treated unjustly is useful training in letting go one's own ego-centred vision of the universe and realising that every other he, she, it, you and them, is also an 'I' as far as they, themselves, are concerned.

This, i think, is more what Alice is trying to point out.-- mirror facing mirror

nowhere else 

~ Ikkyu

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