Mt. 13:24-30 The 27th Day of the Fast for Non-Violence, The 18th Day of Ramandam
I spent most of my life struggling with putting on a front, and gradually I have realized there are two sides of me–the wheat and the weeds. I see this in my guys on the street–always trying to be black and white, good and bad–there is a story a Native American grandfather told to his grand kids: ” There is a fight that goes on inside of us between two wolves. One wolf is bad and evi–creates anger, fear, envy, despair, greed, arrogance, guilt lies, false pride, resentment, competition. The other is the good and noble wolf–generates, love, peace, hope, joy, hope, humility, kindness, friendship, generosity, truthfulness and compassion to me. And the children asked, “Which one will win?” And he said, “The one you feed.”
If we feed violence, hatred, pettiness, our greed–we feed the weeds in our life. We become the way we live our lives, we become what we put into our minds and bodies. It is our choice. Will Tuttle has a sumary I like:
To awaken from the cultural trance of omnivorism we need only remember who we are. We have neither the psychology nor the physiology for predation and killing, but due to the culturally indoctrinated mentality required by our daily meals, we eat like predators.
We become desensitized, exclusivist and materialistic, forgetting that we are essentially consciousness manifesting in time and space. As consciousness, we are eternal, free, and benevolent.