Questioner:  I have a question regarding \"total acceptance\". How does one totally accept the people in this world who commit acts of violence, murder, rape, etc.?

Umi: This is how the mind avoids that which is really happening.  The real question is, \"How do I totally accept the people in this world who commit acts of violence, murder, rape, etc.?\"  This is what is really happening.  You are not able to accept  \"...the people in this world who commit acts of violence, murder, rape, etc.\"  Whether you accept them or not, acts of violence, murder, rape, etc. will continue.  Mankind has been trying for thousands of years to stop this, and it hasn't lessened at all.  The real question is nothing about stopping these acts, the question is, \"What is happening in you?\"  Now see the violence that is in you, this that you cannot accept.  It is because of your conditioning to be 'good' that it is difficult to even look in and see this, let alone accept it.  As long as you cannot accept the violence that is inside you, then this violence inside you, will emerge in your actions, even in very subtle ways.  But the violence will be there.  The mind is very cunning.  The violence may seep out, or may poison your body, or it may suddenly explode.  All these manifestations are simply the results of not accepting your own inner violence.  And the pain that you feel when you see these unconscious actions from others is still the pain inside you.  Pain comes from resistance.  With acceptance the pain dissolves.  Acceptance is not about allowing or not allowing, acceptance is accepting that all that is happening is an expression of Consciousness, God, Existence, The Whole, and that includes your non-acceptance. Simply feel the reactions in the body.  Be here in each moment and accept all the physical sensations.  This is living in the Truth.

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Umi