Why Hatred Is Unnecessary

[JayW]

This famous quote - "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts" which came from William Shakespeare surmises our lives very well. This has literally been validated by many experts in the metaphysical field. One such person is the renowned Dolores Cannon, a lady in her 80's who has conducted thousands of past-life regressions in the last three decades. From her cases, we know people who come into our lives appear for a reason including those who give us the most number of headaches! And the following is what she has concluded from her years of work :-

"Remember that when you were on the Spirit side, you made a plan of what you hoped to accomplish in this life. You made contracts with various souls to play various parts in your scenario on Earth. Some of your greatest enemies or challenges during your life were your greatest friends on the Spirit side. They volunteered to come and play the villain in your Earthly scenario. And some play them very well !"

As such, from that perspective, we realize there's no necessity to harbor perpetual hatred towards those whom have given us the most challenges in life. After all, at the core of those human beings, are divine souls that have the same essence of Love, that is within ourselves. Therein lies the profundity of the ancient Sanskrit greeting ' Namaste ' which is still in everyday use in India. Translated roughly, it means  "The Spirit within me honors the Spirit in you" - a knowing that we are all made from the same One Divine Consciousness. Therefore to despise others is akin to condemning our own lineage. 

The wise will not equate the act with the actor. And so... life's lessons are necessary but hatred is optional.

 

[TheRealCallie]

I have to agree with hatred is not necessary. To me, in order to hate someone, you have to have intense feelings for them. To hate someone requires a lot of energy. I don't believe any person should take that much energy from you. I think the term hate is often overused. Do you ACTUALLY hate the person or do you really just not like the person?
I used to allow myself to hate people, but as I grew older and stronger (mentally stronger, not physically), I realized that I didn't want to give a person that much of myself. They don't deserve it and neither do I.
Love and hate are 2 sides of the same coin. You cannot hate, in my opinion, if you do not love with equal intensity.

 

[Anahita]

I too think hatred is a terrible thing, and it withers and shrivels the person doing the hating. It is not always easy to overcome anger and hatred but we should all try, I think. Even that nasty persistent chipping away at other people, trying to undermine them or make them look small. There seems to be so much of that in life nowadays, scared people trying to !make our lovely world smaller and more petty.

We all have bright souls, we should do our best to make them shine, not try to stifle other people's light to make our own seem brighter.

 

[sk66rc]

Though hatred may be an unnecessary thing, I believe it's a part of natural human emotion... Determining factor is not weather we feel the emotion or not but rather, what we'd do with it that defines our character...

 

[jaguarundi]

I believe that all emotions are telling us something, including those like anger or hatred. The problem with the negative ones is when we dwell in them, feed them and let them dominate our lives.

 

[Rosebolt]

I find what you say to be extremely interesting. I can relate to that manner of thinking quite a bit. I have a bit of a weird perception of hate, though. I can vaguely remember explaining it somewhere on here, but don't remember where. So here goes.

I believe that love and hate are manifestations of the same thing. I also believe that love is the most powerful force or energy, that exists. This means that hate is equal in power to love, making them both the strongest form of energy to exist. However i believe that love is one step above. Both love and hate can destroy a human being in its material form in a matter of split seconds, if one allows it to, and even when not allowed to. People who dearly love someone can quickly have that love turned to hate, if the situation changes in such a way that it would call upon such a response in any given individual.

Hate has pretty much the same symptoms as love does, though hate uses mostly manners of thinking and acting that are generally deemed immoral by the moral majority. So does love, at times. On the other hand, hate can also spur up manners of thinking and acting that are morally acceptable by the moral majority.

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Where was i going with this, again?

 

[mónos]

Determining factor is not weather we feel the emotion or not but rather, what we'd do with it that defines our character...

Words of wisdom.

 

[ardour]

This famous quote - "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts" which came from William Shakespeare surmises our lives very well. This has literally been validated by many experts in the metaphysical field. One such person is the renowned Dolores Cannon, a lady in her 80's who has conducted thousands of past-life regressions in the last three decades. From her cases, we know people who come into our lives appear for a reason including those who give us the most number of headaches! And the following is what she has concluded from her years of work :-

"Remember that when you were on the Spirit side, you made a plan of what you hoped to accomplish in this life. You made contracts with various souls to play various parts in your scenario on Earth. Some of your greatest enemies or challenges during your life were your greatest friends on the Spirit side. They volunteered to come and play the villain in your Earthly scenario. And some play them very well !"

As such, from that perspective, we realize there's no necessity to harbor perpetual hatred towards those whom have given us the most challenges in life. After all, at the core of those human beings, are divine souls that have the same essence of Love, that is within ourselves. Therein lies the profundity of the ancient Sanskrit greeting ' Namaste ' which is still in everyday use in India. Translated roughly, it means  "The Spirit within me honors the Spirit in you" - a knowing that we are all made from the same One Divine Consciousness. Therefore to despise others is akin to condemning our own lineage. 

The wise will not equate the act with the actor. And so... life's lessons are necessary but hatred is optional.

Since you obviously believe in fate or an equivalent concept, let me ask this - what about the millions who suffer serious cruelty at the hands of others? For example women and children sold into sexual slavery. Are you suggesting it was all meant to be, and on an even more ludicrous level, that their spirits made a contract with those of their abusers to play out a role?

I suppose enemies help develop character, if that's what's meant here... still sounds like smug spiritualism though.

 

[Jazzbird]

I think hatred is just as natural as happiness or love and there's no harm in it as long as you don't let it take control of you.

I don't understand why some people are driven by hate and seek to do others harm.I mean.. we're all going to the same place,right? We're all going to rot in the dirt so what's the point of being hateful when we can make others happy and support each other?

 

[mónos]

I believe hatred is normal and that it does have its place. Just as has been said already that how we deal with hatred matters, it also matters who or what we feel anger towards.

I feel anger when I hear about **** and murder and child abuse. I am angry at those who commit such crimes and I think it is okay to have those feelings, as long as my response is not to hunt down those people and exercise my own form of justice (as much as they may deserve it). I should strive to be more constructive in how I deal with these feelings.

In the same way, I feel hatred toward those who in my past abused me and who neglected to protect me from the abuse, and so led me on the course of emotional dysfunction. Although I have these feelings, I don't act on them by trying to bring harm to those people. I am trying to find other ways to change my state of mind toward myself and toward my past, so that I can hopefully move on past it all and have a better future.

 

[Outcast]

Hate is a natural emotion (as previously stated), everyone has felt it at one time or another, but it's how we control it that really matters. Hate can lead to self-destruction. It leads to twisted logic, even to the point of destroying yourself in order to hurt your enemy. Hating someone is pointless, while you spend your time being angry at them, all you are doing is suffering, getting yourself nowhere and in some cases giving the person you hate what they want.

Hate will come back to haunt you in one way or another.

 

[JayW]

Hi Ardour

I refer to your comments as below :-

"Since you obviously believe in fate or an equivalent concept, let me ask this - what about the millions who suffer serious cruelty at the hands of others? For example women and children sold into sexual slavery. Are you suggesting it was all meant to be, and on an even more ludicrous level, that their spirits made a contract with those of their abusers to play out a role?"

I believe fate is just a divine plan  that we had a say prior to birth. I based this on the many revelations by past-life regressionists' cases worldwide (e.g. Dr Brian Weiss & Dr. Michael Newton) , near-death experience survivors (e.g. Dannion Brinkley) psychics (e.g. late legendary Edgar Cayce), clairvoyants (e.g. George Anderson, James Van Praagh, Lisa Williams), channelers (e.g. Steve Rother, Lee Carroll) as well as my work with very gifted clairvoyants who can see people's past lives appear spontaneously during the performance of reiki sessions on my clients. So, yes...we do concur with our life plan however 'ludicrous' we think it is. Not too ago, I  met a young lady who was a drug abuser and was suffering until one of my gifted friends tuned into her and revealed that in one past life, she sold opium to others and wrecked people's lives. Basically, this lifetime was part of her balancing of karma. FYI, I practise many types of reiki, and the most intense ones take place during Karmic Reiki. That's when emotions from their past lives (which exist in the form of memories within the field of energy surrounding our multi-dimensional DNAs) surface. They literally burst into tears when issues from the past are stirred up. I then advice my clients not to resist and allow the emotions to flow as that is a form of healing. At this stage, when my gifted friend is around, she could see the details of what transpired in those past lives. When they acknowledge and make peace with their past including forgiving those who harmed them in the past as well apologizing to those whom they have harmed, they return to a peaceful state.

In the end, life is all about experiences since our true being is eternal and can never die. The darkness that you perceive in life is part of the divine set-up of this world, aptly surmised by the wise ancient Taoists as Duality of Life or Yin-Yang. The darkness is the challenge and the catalyst for us to anchor the light. Without darkness, how would we appreciate the light ? All my spiritual teachers and metaphysical experts that I have come across agree that our ultimate purpose is to raise the vibrations of this world or what religious teachers would describe as - Creating Heaven on Earth. If Earth is already perfect with no darkness, our souls wouldn't have come to take an incarnation as there would be nothing for us to experience and contribute. Nevertheless, believe what you choose to believe since planet Earth is the planet of free choice and discernment is important.

I bid you a great day!

Namaste.

 

[ardour]

Lordy. The suffering referred to (****, molestation) is karma for past life transgressions. Divine will. I guess that's means empathy is also unnecessary.

You and your "gifted friends" appear to be taking advantage of the vulnerable, the gullible, the damaged.

 

[Anahita]

Lordy. The suffering referred to (****, molestation) is karma for past life transgressions. Divine will. I guess that's means empathy is also unnecessary.

You and your "gifted friends" appear to be taking advantage of the vulnerable, the gullible, the damaged. Karma indeed.

I have come across this view of Karma before, but it always seems to me that it is yet another way of trying to answer the question, "Why do bad things happen to good people."

The Christian answer has been and still is, for some but not all Christians, Satan. Other religions have other ideas.

What any of these beliefs should not do, in my opinion, is to say.. Well it was meant to be, god's will/karma or whatever, so it means we don't need to do anything about the pain and suffering of others.

I hope this isn't too religious a comment for me to make, I know that is not allowed so sorry if it is.

 

[ardour]

I have come across this view of Karma before, but it always seems to me that it is yet another way of trying to answer the question, "Why do bad things happen to good people."

However in this belief system they're not good people; the suffer justly.

So, as an extreme example, every time someone is ***** it's karma for sins in a past incarnation. Disgusting.

I would also have to include Calvinist ideas to do with God willing all events as abhorrent in this regard, although this is moving into a religious discussion, as you say..

 

[Anahita]

I have come across this view of Karma before, but it always seems to me that it is yet another way of trying to answer the question, "Why do bad things happen to good people."

However in this belief system they're not good people; the suffer justly.

So, to use an extreme example, every time someone is ***** it's karma for sins in a past incarnation. Disgusting.

I would have to include Calvinist ideas to do with God willing all events as abhorrent in this regard, although this is moving into a religious discussion, as you say..

Maybe I explained badly, but what I meant was that religions grew up often, around the idea that if you followed what they said then the gods would take care of you. So if something goes wrong but you have apparently done everything you 'should' according to that religion, and are a good person, then there has to be some other reason for it. Different religions have found different answers to this, karma being one of them.

I am not saying that I agree with any of those reasons myself, by the way. Nor the kind of thinking that says to someone who has cancer, or has been ***** or things like that ' Why are you attracting this into your life?' thus also making it your fault. . .

But this is a deviation from the topic of Hate so I will shut up now.

 

[ardour]

Okay... I didn't think you were agreeing with any of it. Moving on now.

 

[sk66rc]

Determining factor is not weather we feel the emotion or not but rather, what we'd do with it that defines our character...

Words of wisdom.

I get one of those once in a while, lol... Thanks...