This document summarizes a presentation about using spirituality and forgiveness rather than litigation and revenge to resolve conflicts. It notes that while the U.S. employs many lawyers, it employs far fewer clergy, and files millions of lawsuits per year. Looking back, religions traditionally used mediation and community practices to restore relationships, rather than financial penalties. The presentation argues that reconciling justice and mercy through forgiveness and viewing lawyers as peacemakers could help people experience their underlying oneness and find more peace.
This document summarizes a presentation about using spirituality and forgiveness rather than litigation and revenge to resolve conflicts. It notes that while the U.S. employs many lawyers, it employs far fewer clergy, and files millions of lawsuits per year. Looking back, religions traditionally used mediation and community practices to restore relationships, rather than financial penalties. The presentation argues that reconciling justice and mercy through forgiveness and viewing lawyers as peacemakers could help people experience their underlying oneness and find more peace.
This document summarizes a presentation about using spirituality and forgiveness rather than litigation and revenge to resolve conflicts. It notes that while the U.S. employs many lawyers, it employs far fewer clergy, and files millions of lawsuits per year. Looking back, religions traditionally used mediation and community practices to restore relationships, rather than financial penalties. The presentation argues that reconciling justice and mercy through forgiveness and viewing lawyers as peacemakers could help people experience their underlying oneness and find more peace.
A few definitions Law: set of man-made rules that orders relationships between our separate physical bodies and mediates conflict between them.
Spirituality: that unseen which is common to
and unites the whole of humanity despite the separate physical bodies and circumstances [] sense of transcendent oneness
Justice: Equity and Fairness (the manifest
state of oneness, or spirituality) - in our society: used as synonym for revenge, retribution, payback and vengeance - manifest state of separateness - opposite of equity and oneness (Spirituality) A little story for you A few facts In the name of Justice:
we employ 700,000 lawyers - but only 36,000
clergy
we file 36 million lawsuits against one another
every year
we confine more than two million people in our
prisons
we have a justice system that costs us more
than $650 billion annually
we have waged two wars that have killed
thousands of people since the terrorist attacks A little look back
Water Ordeal - By Diebold Schilling the Younger
Religion as a way to deal with conflict
Indulgences - pay for your sins
Mediation and Community - idea of shared values
and community cohesion, restoring personal relationship with the divine through spiritual practices
But then revolution and separation between state
and church Analogy between court room and cathedral How will people look at us 500 years from now The Tree of The three columns are called Life Mercy
Severity
Mildness
"Said the Holy One, blessed be
He: If I create the world on the basis of mercy alone, its sins will be great; on the basis of justice alone, the world cannot exist. Hence I will create it on the basis of justice and of mercy, and may it then stand." Thus we see that Chesed (mercy) and Gevurah (justice) are primary The Non-Justice System
Reconciliation between Justice and Mercy
Suing for peace rather than revenge
Lawyers as peacemakers rather than
mercenaries.
Forgiveness The choice is yours revenge = denying your spirituality (your oneness with others)
peace and happiness = acknowledge
and restore your spirituality (Oneness).
By reuniting Law and Spirituality, we
restore the means by which separate human bodies restore peace and happiness and experience their true oneness. Thank you!