If anyone strikes you on the cheek,
offer the other also.
—Luke 6.29
Do not confuse turning the other cheek
with telling someone else to.
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Assume this koan is a way to confront evil,
not to tolerate it.
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The act is not simply to suffer the evil,
but to expose it.
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Even as we pray for those who abuse us
we name the abuse and act to stop it.
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You can resist violence in ways that risk,
but not that harm others.
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We overcome evil not by superiority
but out of our powerlessness.
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The cross
is God’s other cheek.
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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
www.unfoldinglight.net
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