241218 What I learned in my studies this morning 5*

Today's Meditation(s):

Tao Te Ching, 80 (Deng Ming-Dao and Jane English)

Leave each other in peace....

Why does this seem so hard for people?

Leaving others in peace is one of my foundational principles and I think I do it rather well (though there's always room for improvement).

It's why I so loathe politicians. It's why I don't even want to be manager / supervisor over others at work.

I want to be left alone to pursue my peaceful practices and I offer the same courtesy to everyone else.

Ask me for advice? I'm happy to help in whatever way I can. 

Ask me to order others to do things, with the everpresent threat of coercion that must accompany all 'orders'? Yeah. No. Piss right off with that.

I don't want to be forced to live as others would have me live. And I will not be party to forcing peaceful people to live as I would have them live.

My life is not theirs. Their lives are not mine.