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Have you noticed all preparation for peace is resulting in War. it’s strange but true. Any preparation for Peace should have resulted in quite and calm environment. We decide unless we attack someone then there is a threat to peace. Unless we wage war on certain group of people then there will no peace.
Unless we fight certain countries then there is no peace to our religion! in the name religious peace we terrorize countries! What rubbish! We have been fighting more wars in the name of Peace than War itself.
It looks like we need to change the definition of Peace, may be peace means War itself!
The same is the case with you. Your search of happiness is the reason for your unhappiness. Your frustrations and anger collectively forms a Society. And vice versa is true also. it is a vicious circle where individual influences society and society influences Individual. Very few have been able to break the shackles of society and stand on their own. A Christ here- a Krishna there -a Mohammad here -A Buddha there .
Society is nothing but a collection of individuals. All revolutions fail because of this. Only evolution has a long lasting effect because it works at a individual level. Unless a certain change starts happening at each family in terms of non-violence, peace and awareness it is difficult to stop War. The choice is yours. You may think that by practicing peace at your level What can happen?. Trust me! Meditation has a atomic effect.
Meditation of art of fighting bullet with Rose, Meditation is a courageous journey of non-violence. To me it takes bigger guts to be non-violent than to be Violent. Meditation is a way of responding fire with compassion and love.
Love
Suresh
“If your opponent strikes with fire, counter with water, becoming completely fluid and free-flowing. Water, by its nature, never collides with or breaks against anything. On the contrary, it swallows up any attack harmlessly. “
~ the Art of Peace by Aikido founder Morihei Ueshiba whom I really believe was history’s greatest martial artist. His biography in a book by the same name is really fascinating. He could defend himself from a lot of attackers, but most amazingly – without causing any harm to the attacker! How could he not be the world’s greatest martial artist when he says things like…
The divine beauty
Of heaven and earth!
All creation,
Members of
One family.
(Aikido classes have really been fun, and the core teaching is to always act from our center)
I think that the biggest difficulty in accepting Non-violence is because we tend to associate it with weakness, complacency or cowardice. Its an almost incredible truth it takes bigger guts to be non-violent than to be Violent but those who give it a genuine fair trial would definitely attest its truth without any shadow of doubt! 8)
Brilliant link ! Sanjay! thanks.
I request readers to click on the link
http://www-cse.ucsd.edu/users/paloma/Aikido/artpeace.html
And there is a lot to learn and enjoy!
The book contains a more detailed biography in addition to those words. It has been one of the best investments I’ve ever made. I’d read them a couple of years ago and had liked it a lot. But now I went and read the same thing again, and those same words were stunningly much more beautiful and had much more depth than I could recall. It was like I was hearing them for the first time all over again
The sadness of war is that it brings up every base instinct of humanity; aggression, hate, intolerance, injustice, violence, etc. A true man of peace is a spiritual warrior. And thanks for the information about the the Aikido book
I will have to get it.
Ya Haqq!
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