01-21-2013, 08:29 PM
People are not trash no matter what they have done. Please find more compassion. People who hurt others in this way are suffering somewhere inside. Somewhere along the way something happened to them that caused them to be this way - We could have ended up like them very easily, and maybe we secretly are one of these "types" of people.
But we are more than that..
If someone doesn't believe in your God, it doesn't mean they don't have ethics or know the meaning of Love. Love and Truth translate into every belief system. God is a name we have given to something we feel, not something we understand. Allah, HaShem, Ahura Mazda, Queztalcoatl, Biame, Bregedal etc.
What we identify with / how we label our self is not what we really are. Every being has a different way of making peace with the world -
Thich Nhat Hahn.
The First Mindfulness Training:
Aware of the suffering created by fanaticism and intolerance, we are determined not to be idolatrous about or bound to any doctrine, theory, or ideology, even Buddhist ones. Buddhist teachings are a guiding means to help us learn to look deeply and to develop our understanding and compassion. They are not doctrines to fight, kill or die for.
Human life is more precious than any ideology or doctrine. In the name of ideologies and doctrines, people kill and are killed. If you have a gun, you can shoot one, two, three, five people, but if you have an ideology and stick with it, thinking it is the absolute truth, you can kill millions. This mindfulness training includes the admonition not to kill in its deepest sense. Humankind suffers very much from attachment to views. "If you don't follow this teaching, I will cut off your head." In the name of the truth, we kill each other. The world is stuck in that situation. There are people who still think that Marxism is the highest product of the human mind, that nothing can compare with it. Others think it is crazy, and that we have to destroy these people. We are caught in this situation.
One of the most basic teachings of the Buddha is that life is precious. Peace can only be achieved when we are free from fanaticism.
But we are more than that..
If someone doesn't believe in your God, it doesn't mean they don't have ethics or know the meaning of Love. Love and Truth translate into every belief system. God is a name we have given to something we feel, not something we understand. Allah, HaShem, Ahura Mazda, Queztalcoatl, Biame, Bregedal etc.
What we identify with / how we label our self is not what we really are. Every being has a different way of making peace with the world -
Thich Nhat Hahn.
The First Mindfulness Training:
Aware of the suffering created by fanaticism and intolerance, we are determined not to be idolatrous about or bound to any doctrine, theory, or ideology, even Buddhist ones. Buddhist teachings are a guiding means to help us learn to look deeply and to develop our understanding and compassion. They are not doctrines to fight, kill or die for.
Human life is more precious than any ideology or doctrine. In the name of ideologies and doctrines, people kill and are killed. If you have a gun, you can shoot one, two, three, five people, but if you have an ideology and stick with it, thinking it is the absolute truth, you can kill millions. This mindfulness training includes the admonition not to kill in its deepest sense. Humankind suffers very much from attachment to views. "If you don't follow this teaching, I will cut off your head." In the name of the truth, we kill each other. The world is stuck in that situation. There are people who still think that Marxism is the highest product of the human mind, that nothing can compare with it. Others think it is crazy, and that we have to destroy these people. We are caught in this situation.
One of the most basic teachings of the Buddha is that life is precious. Peace can only be achieved when we are free from fanaticism.
"What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning" - Werner Karl Heisenber