If a woman hits a man is the man allowed to hit back?

[Minyatur]

This is absolutely twisted. There is nothing Law of One about justifying violence towards someone, period. No one should be hitting anyone. We should set an example of nonviolence for others, even if they inflict violence upon us. This point was made in the first reply to the OP, so yeah, I think usually the forum does a good job understanding the Law of One. Unfortunately, it's easy to twist and use it to justify anything.

42.4 ▶ Questioner: Would a perfectly balanced entity feel an emotional response when being attacked by the other-self?

Ra: I am Ra. This is correct. The response is love.

42.5 ▶ Questioner: In the illusion that we now experience it is difficult to maintain this response especially if the entity’s attack results in physical pain, but I assume that this response should be maintained even through physical loss of life or extreme pain. Is this correct?

Ra: I am Ra. This is correct and further is of a major or principal importance in understanding, shall we say, the principle of balance. Balance is not indifference but rather the observer not blinded by any feelings of separation but rather fully imbued with love.

Well first of all, you totally miss the point of it being a questionning. In itself it promotes nothing but offers an opportunity to balance your own energies that find conflict.

Then, if you expect anyone on this plane to be in a state of perfect balance, you will yourself feel nothing but disappointment for both yourself and yourself found in others. Perfect balance is an ideal that you cannot expect of anyone.

Since it is clear that no one is in a state of perfect balance, how does the material say to go at that to grow toward the Law of One?

18.5 ▶ Questioner: Thank you. I have a question here from Jim that I will read verbatim: “Much of the mystic tradition of seeking on Earth holds that belief that the individual self must be erased or obliterated and the material world ignored for an entity to reach ‘nirvana,’ as it’s called, or enlightenment. What is the proper role of the individual self and its worldly activities in aiding an entity to grow more into the Law of One?"

Ra: I am Ra. The proper role of the entity is in this density to experience all things desired, to then analyze, understand, and accept these experiences, distilling from them the love/light within them. Nothing shall be overcome. That which is not needed falls away.

The orientation develops due to analysis of desire. These desires become more and more distorted towards conscious application of love/light as the entity furnishes itself with distilled experience. We have found it to be inappropriate in the extreme to encourage the overcoming of any desires, except to suggest the imagination rather than the carrying out in the physical plane, as you call it, of those desires not consonant with the Law of One; this preserving the primal distortion of free will.

The reason it is unwise to overcome is that overcoming is an unbalanced action creating difficulties in balancing in the time/space continuum. Overcoming thus creates the further environment for holding onto that which apparently has been overcome.

All things are acceptable in the proper time for each entity, and in experiencing, in understanding, in accepting, in then sharing with other-selves, the appropriate description shall be moving away from distortions of one kind to distortions of another which may be more consonant with the Law of One.

It is, shall we say, a shortcut to simply ignore or overcome any desire. It must instead be understood and accepted. This takes patience and experience which can be analyzed with care, with compassion for self and for other-self.

When I said the Law of One I did not mean the Ra material and any of the concepts they speak about, like what perfect balance is taken out of context of the means to reach it, but the actual Law of One as a portion of their message.

My own response to the thread spoke of my own balance and why I would not promote violence as this self. Thinking that violence on Earth has no place or that it can just be overcome is what is dissonant with the Law of One, because the truth of the matter is that you are at the center of all of it and that won't disappear.