Going Low, Going High, and the Three Gates

On the subject of dealing with aggressive force without being corrupted by it, Phillip Fellman said:

“(To act without) malice, no hatred, just calm action in the moment. Often the mechanics of the situation simply play out by themselves. You absorb, deflect, reflect the ego-driven energy directed at you as the situation requires. It rarely requires that you suffer to satisfy the infantile needs of that voracious, destructive ego. It may require you to extinguish the source of malevolent, destructive, anti-life energy. The nature of the energy itself…