Why it is better to convince than to conquer
by Pablo Saz
In personal relationships we tend to help each otherbut even with those closest to us, conflict arises, a disagreement in which we want to be right and in which we think that the other is unfair to us, that he abuses or attacks us.
Then our being revolts, our body is filled with adrenaline and prepares for the fight.
It is something quite everyday, although sometimes we don’t want to see it: a reality that we sometimes stumble upon or in which we even ask for help.
You have to understand the enemy
To resolve these conflicts nails, arms, fists, bites, sticks, stones, knives, guns, bombs are used. We have generated an astonishing capacity to destroy.
However, there have also been warriors who have raised other ways to resolve the conflict: approach the fight with the intention, not of harming the enemy, but of touching his soul, of reaching an understanding with him and reaching an agreement.
Great fighters such as Christ, Gandhi, Martin Luther King or Moriei Ueshibathe creator of aikido.
Is it about slipping away, running away? To hit back or hit it twice? To fall on your knees and ask for forgiveness?
To call on justice to condemn beatings, imprisonment, life imprisonment or death, or to proclaim war? No, it’s not about any of that.
Nonviolent struggle is a firm attitude of facing the other, knowing that they will not let go until the conflict is resolved.
Animated by the force of justice, enter and fight without doing harm, understand the reasons and justice of what is in front of youanalyze your truth, your lies and your own.
How to resolve a conflict without violence?
It is about do not destroy to save one’s own truthto respect the truth and the life of the enemy, and to care for all life to save life.
The conflict is resolved by reaching an agreement when both win at the same time and are convinced. It is about overcome and find the truth together.