We are currently facing challenges in teams, everyday life, our jobs as well as in trials, sessions, and meetings. Where justice should prevail something entirely different is taking space. Nevertheless, people still think that the law can’t hurt them, that it is just and is used justly. And in the end they find themselves in emotional turmoil: righteous, indignated, frustrated. Why is that so? Where does this lead and how could things change?
Background
A while ago I attended a construction hearing, a legal procedure here in Austria including all the neighbours and interested parties. Some filed their others resigned themselves to having no say no power.
And the third group was made up of those who thought themselves safe because they trust the law. They trust that legal rules are equal for all. And this is where craziness begins. Law is not justice—and for years now human law is on a downward spiral that’s going further and further down. Law is an instrument to assist the strong, not those who need help and protection.
Human law gives a lot of room for interpretation and wiggling. One major exception is speeding. But in all other areas it largely depends.
A friend told me her colleagues were keeping important information from her, information needed for her work. Another that leads were distributed unfairly among the sales team.
All this leads to frustration, disappointment, resignation or even rudeness. Because when gloves come off, joy flies out the windows.
Blessed are the meek
Yes, ut comes to mind. Yes, but how can one survive, go on? How can one be free of playing hardball?
By turning to true wisdom. In ancient Greece, the goddess Pallas Athena was the goddess of justice, as well as the goddess of wisdom, truth, weaving (and hence he working women), beauty, and peace. Her father was Zeus, leader of all the Gods, and her mother Metis and together they created a being who was far above others.
Right now she assists all those who have to fight off unfair treatment and—together with Archangel Michael—she serves as tool of light whenever balance needs to be regained.
What is injustice?
Is it unjust to drive 32 km/h in a 30km/h zone? Or is it unjust tp get a ticket for doing so?
Human law does have its place. It is meant to help all understand and follow the rules. Rules based on consent and meant to make the weak ones equal in a fight. This is not to say that one is free of being self-responsible. It means you do what you can do. Only what is beyond you should be a matter of the courts. For example, a tenant is meant to take care of the object he lives in and to behave accordingly. But he does so, but the landlord decides to hassle him, then the courts should mete out justice. And how many landlords are into hassling?
Tribes, in the olden days had a very interesting system in place: whenever injustice occurred, it was both parties who had to learn something. Or as a business consultant once said: in bullying, both (parties) have to go.
But nowadays, the balance has tipped so far to the other side that such situations hold no space for learning. It’s no longer about togetherness, nor balance—it’s more about intrigues, dividing, and rulership.
The short end of the stick
When you are not careful, you may as well draw the short end of the stick, be thrown underneath the bus. But life’s too sly to leave us helpless.
Intrigues are situations in which you are blamed for no reason. You are being targeted, simply because you exist. The resulting stress is often monetary in nature. Because if you are being excluded, how can you survive? Burnouts, depression, early retirement may be the results.
This is when you learn to rely on your innermost strength. The strength of sage patience and the power of nonchalance.
When intrigue comes knocking at your door, so shall it be. Do not make the mistake to let yourself be driven by it. Do not react. Some evil-doers succeed in driving others in fron of their intrigues. But wise people know that everything shall pass. When one door closes, another opens. God’s mill is ever-grinding.
The force of nonchalance or aplomb is useful in such situations. Don’t chase money and t will chase after you. If you want to be valued, make yourself scarce. These phrases are representative of a far deeper truth.
God’s law
Because above human there is the godly or universal law. And everyone is seen through it, the king and servant.
After all, in every human being lives the urgent desire to be good. We want to prove ourselves. Not to other people, but to our own moral compass. For this is the only way to successfully complete our incarnation. There is so much at stake: the soul itself, happiness in life, peace within ourselves and with others. We want all of this.
Whenever we violate this, we hurt ourselves. This is what Buddhists mean when they say that being angry with others is like drinking poison and hoping that the other person will die from it.
Evil is currently fighting for everyone. For everyone. Including you. If you get involved in petty human games, you have defeated yourself. You have checkmated yourself. Yes, intrigues hurt. Yes, it is annoying how unfair the world is and what a distorted image justice has become. I cried and mourned for many months that what is most sacred to me is so defiled.
That is why I can tell you today: justice is an expression of divine love. Those who stray from it lose everything that matters. Because what matters is love.
