{"id":1972,"date":"2013-04-05T21:32:01","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T19:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.matthieuricard.org\/non-violence-is-not-weakness\/"},"modified":"2013-04-05T21:32:01","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T19:32:01","slug":"non-violence-is-not-weakness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matthieuricard.org\/en\/non-violence-is-not-weakness\/","title":{"rendered":"Non-violence is not weakness"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry_content\">\n<p>When we are the object of abuse or injustice, it is absolutely legitimate to use whatever means might be appropriate, including any necessary force; but <i>never <\/i>with hatred.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nDeep within ourselves, it&#8217;s important to maintain invincible compassion and inexhaustible inner strength.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s not a matter of either passively submitting to the mercy of anyone who attacks us, or trying to eliminate them by force (there&#8217;ll always be more to come), but of discovering that our main enemy is the wish to harm others\u2014something we&#8217;ll need to combat mercilessly.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n That&#8217;s what we have to understand and, as much as we can, get others to see, too.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we are the object of abuse or injustice, it is absolutely legitimate to use whatever means might be appropriate, including any necessary force; but never with hatred. Deep within ourselves, it&#8217;s important to maintain invincible compassion and inexhaustible inner strength. It&#8217;s not a matter of either passively submitting to the mercy of anyone who&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matthieuricard.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matthieuricard.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matthieuricard.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthieuricard.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthieuricard.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthieuricard.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matthieuricard.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthieuricard.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthieuricard.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}