Gandhi’s
teaching about non-violence and peacebuilding is truly non-violence itself.
Gandhi wants us to finish with ourselves first, then we can do or spread the
non-violence to others by Satyagraha, Ahimsa and Tapasya, the real values
deep-rooted from Hindu’s teaching.
To facing
injustice and violence repression from others, those three values consequence
us for finishing ourselves first. Gandhi implies that we have to be aware for
violence and repression as part of ours, so we do not need to reject it, but we
need to confront and reduce it. Much violence occurs because we are usually
busy for looking our enemy as different part of us. We consider that our enemy
is always wrong, cruel and dangerous.
It is not for
Gandhi, because our enemy is like mirror for ourselves, we can see ourselves
there, in order to define that our enemy is not different from us. This
perspective will make us comfortable to see that their action of non-violence
and injustice is bad, so we have to give something good for solving it.
After finish
with ourselves, the next our duty is about consistently spreading and doing it
in our daily life. This duty will challenge us to do it without non-violence
action, especially in the social and political life. Gandhi has taught us by
many different types of rebellion such as negotiations, peace demonstrations,
civil disobedience, and other non-violent forms of non-cooperation.
The concept
of Gandhi’s rebellion is an antithesis for Hobbes’s philosophy about power.
Hobbes tends to imply that politics is merely about the power, material and
control of violence. Hobbes, with his Leviathan theory argues that individual
as an isolated, and self contained being will be selfish, controlled by desire
and greedy. Because of that, people will be animal for others; the strongest
will control the whole life.
Gandhi’s
philosophical and action for peacebuilding and non-violence movement will be
the most powerful energy for creating a world with peace and non-violence
there. Gandhi’s concept from Hinduism ethic is the answer for many critical and
skeptical role of religion in peacebuilding. This teaching treats us to be wiser
by looking our enemies as a part of ours, and trying to fight them by
non-violent action.
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