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===Topic: ''Unintended Encounters with Malice''===
===Group: [[11:11 Progress Group]]===
==Facilitators==
===Teacher: [[Andrea|Primary Midwayer, Andrea]]===
===TR: [[George Barnard]]===
==Session==
===Lesson===
Andrea: “[[Imagine]] you are in a bank to make a deposit and while you are in line, robbers enter the place and you end up being a [[hostage]] in their hands, having your life threatened if they don’t get what they want. Let us call such incidents ‘Unintended Encounters with Malice.’ [[Malice]] is the [[intent]] to do [[evil]] to others. Malice is the origin of [[sin]] and the driving force of [[iniquity]]. Why do such situations happen to [[innocent]] people? Is it fate? Is it [[karma]]? The rationale behind it can’t explain it all, but it helps you to [[understand]]. Consider these three elements in encountering malice . . .
'''Chance'''. [[Chance]] is the possibility of something happening. As the saying goes, ‘Anything is possible.’ Chance deals with the [[potentiality]] of events. They become [[facts]] when they enter reality. The possibilities for chances are indeed numerous. To avoid chance to happen it is [[necessary]] to think ahead, preventively, but it’s almost impossible to cover all possibilities. Instead, there are two more efficient ways to prevent bad chance from happening. First, seek for and stay on [[the will of God]]; second, be [[sensitive]] to the [[Ta|small voice of Spirit Within you]]. He/She knows the potentials and may [[guide]] you to avoid them.
'''Exposure'''. Sometimes you unintentionally cross the [[path]] of malice, [[exposing]] yourself to its agents. You may expose yourself to evildoers’ malice because you fail to exercise [[caution]]. Caution says that certain people, places and occasions need to be avoided since they increase your exposure to acts of malice. However, exposure to malice may also happen by your trying to help people where malice may be present. In these cases, pray like [[Jesus]] in the [[Lord’s Prayer]]: ‘And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.’ God may help you from falling into the evildoer’s temptation by releasing you from evil.
'''Deception'''. Finally, sometimes malice starts in the [[form]] of [[deception]], and sets a trap so the innocent falls into it. When deception is present, malice is already active. Trickery is [[ancient]], but nowadays many types of con-men with refined kinds of [[fraud]] abound to harm innocent people. These evildoers play with people’s [[naivety]], greed, and mental deficiency. In deception, malice is hidden until the damage is done, then, on many occasions it is too late. [[Eve]] fell for [[Caligastia]]’s deception. The best protection about trickery deception is good sense. If something is too [[good]] to be true, it generally is.
===Closing===
“Thus, my [[friend]], it is not easy to understand why innocent people so often fall [[victim]] to the malice of the evildoer. The instances here mentioned are attempts to [[explain]] it, but additional questions may remain: Is it [[fair]]? Is it [[just]]? Fairness and justice from an evolutionary perspective are always [[relative]]. To experience evil is never a pleasant experience, but it is, without [[doubt]], always a learning situation. Even when evil terminates your life in [[this world]], your faith in [[soul]] survival will have the last laugh. The day will come when you will better understand this. I am Andrea, your [[Primary Midwayer]] friend.”
[[Category: The Teaching Mission: Dialogues]]
[[Category: 11:11 Progress Group]]
[[Category: Andrea]]
[[Category: George Barnard]]
[[Category: 2017]]
[[File:Teaching_buddha_small.jpg|right|frame]]
==Heading==
===Topic: ''Unintended Encounters with Malice''===
===Group: [[11:11 Progress Group]]===
==Facilitators==
===Teacher: [[Andrea|Primary Midwayer, Andrea]]===
===TR: [[George Barnard]]===
==Session==
===Lesson===
Andrea: “[[Imagine]] you are in a bank to make a deposit and while you are in line, robbers enter the place and you end up being a [[hostage]] in their hands, having your life threatened if they don’t get what they want. Let us call such incidents ‘Unintended Encounters with Malice.’ [[Malice]] is the [[intent]] to do [[evil]] to others. Malice is the origin of [[sin]] and the driving force of [[iniquity]]. Why do such situations happen to [[innocent]] people? Is it fate? Is it [[karma]]? The rationale behind it can’t explain it all, but it helps you to [[understand]]. Consider these three elements in encountering malice . . .
'''Chance'''. [[Chance]] is the possibility of something happening. As the saying goes, ‘Anything is possible.’ Chance deals with the [[potentiality]] of events. They become [[facts]] when they enter reality. The possibilities for chances are indeed numerous. To avoid chance to happen it is [[necessary]] to think ahead, preventively, but it’s almost impossible to cover all possibilities. Instead, there are two more efficient ways to prevent bad chance from happening. First, seek for and stay on [[the will of God]]; second, be [[sensitive]] to the [[Ta|small voice of Spirit Within you]]. He/She knows the potentials and may [[guide]] you to avoid them.
'''Exposure'''. Sometimes you unintentionally cross the [[path]] of malice, [[exposing]] yourself to its agents. You may expose yourself to evildoers’ malice because you fail to exercise [[caution]]. Caution says that certain people, places and occasions need to be avoided since they increase your exposure to acts of malice. However, exposure to malice may also happen by your trying to help people where malice may be present. In these cases, pray like [[Jesus]] in the [[Lord’s Prayer]]: ‘And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.’ God may help you from falling into the evildoer’s temptation by releasing you from evil.
'''Deception'''. Finally, sometimes malice starts in the [[form]] of [[deception]], and sets a trap so the innocent falls into it. When deception is present, malice is already active. Trickery is [[ancient]], but nowadays many types of con-men with refined kinds of [[fraud]] abound to harm innocent people. These evildoers play with people’s [[naivety]], greed, and mental deficiency. In deception, malice is hidden until the damage is done, then, on many occasions it is too late. [[Eve]] fell for [[Caligastia]]’s deception. The best protection about trickery deception is good sense. If something is too [[good]] to be true, it generally is.
===Closing===
“Thus, my [[friend]], it is not easy to understand why innocent people so often fall [[victim]] to the malice of the evildoer. The instances here mentioned are attempts to [[explain]] it, but additional questions may remain: Is it [[fair]]? Is it [[just]]? Fairness and justice from an evolutionary perspective are always [[relative]]. To experience evil is never a pleasant experience, but it is, without [[doubt]], always a learning situation. Even when evil terminates your life in [[this world]], your faith in [[soul]] survival will have the last laugh. The day will come when you will better understand this. I am Andrea, your [[Primary Midwayer]] friend.”
[[Category: The Teaching Mission: Dialogues]]
[[Category: 11:11 Progress Group]]
[[Category: Andrea]]
[[Category: George Barnard]]
[[Category: 2017]]
