How to love your political opponents?

[enchanted]

 

Here's 2 mins of conservative tears that show how much political opponents can be feared and hated. Dems do the same thing. 

How can this hate be resolved? Or is this hate and fear something that's a healthy and drives political change? Can love solve everything or is hate a practical tool in our politics? 

Edited yesterday at 05:20 PM by enchanted

[aurum]

Hate won’t resolve until people want truth more than political victory.

And even then, you will still have disagreements and conflict.

[integral]

I'm surprised anyone with that name got votes, But it looks like people are so desperate to get away from Trump that they would vote for anyone.

 

[enchanted]

1 hour ago, aurum said:

Hate won’t resolve until people want truth more than political victory.

And even then, you will still have disagreements and conflict.

Ya true, I agree with your profound and high-level thought. 

I wonder, can we start to love our political opponents, in our own minds, solely to increase the love in the world and to decrease the hate in ourselves? Even though they seem very misguided, unconscious, unintelligent, greedy, and selfish? 

Edited yesterday at 06:32 PM by enchanted

[enchanted]

1 hour ago, integral said:

I'm surprised anyone with that name got votes, But it looks like people are so desperate to get away from Trump that they would vote for anyone.

 

El-Sayed has so many other redeeming characteristics (Captain of football team, is a doctor, a great speaker, presentable, altruistic, etc) that I think many people are willing to look past the name. He is also such a charasmatic speaker that he is able to change the perception of what a Muslim can shown up in the world.

[aurum]

36 minutes ago, enchanted said:

But can we start to love our political opponents, in our own minds, solely to increase the love in the world and to decrease the hate in ourselves? Even though they seem very misguided, unconscious, unintelligent, greedy, and selfish? 

Yes, but not without truth.

Truth and love are a packaged deal.

[enchanted]

14 hours ago, aurum said:

Yes, but not without truth.

Truth and love are a packaged deal.

No one is arguing over absolute truth.

People are arguing over relative truths. Others argue over lower vs higher truths. 

[Schahin]

Listen to the Dalai Lama and what he says about having compassion with difficult people and even your enemies.

 

But at the end of the day the more you Deal with polítics and politicians especially from the right, the dumber you become. That is the truth

[enchanted]

25 minutes ago, Schahin said:

Listen to the Dalai Lama and what he says about having compassion with difficult people and even your enemies.

Got a link? 

25 minutes ago, Schahin said:

But at the end of the day the more you Deal with polítics and politicians especially from the right, the dumber you become. That is the truth

Interesting 

[Schahin]

2 hours ago, enchanted said:

Got a link? 

Interesting 

 I heard various interviews of him. One of them is when he talks about the meaning of life. And he says the meaning of life is being happy and happyness comes through compassion especially when helping others or being compassionate towards others.

Then he goes on saying, that being compassionate towards people that are easy to deal with is the easy part, but real compassion comes in being patient towards difficult people and even our enemies. 

It's better to listen to his interviews directly, because he explains it much better and in a much more impressive way.

Just consider that the Dalai Lama is considered to be an incarnation of the great Boddhisattva Avalokiteshvara who helps everybody that calls upon his name and has entire Sutras that talk about his immense compassion and amazingness and how he can incarnate in every kind of being in order to help the people

Edited 6 hours ago by Schahin

[Leo Gura]

@enchanted Are you asking how you can love them, or how to get them to love you?