Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Real equanimity, real peace

It's amazing, really, how ferociously people will often defend the "right" to have enemies, to believe that is is somehow right to see others as enemies. Here's another way:

If there is love, there is hope to have real families, real brotherhood, real equanimity, real peace. If the love within your mind is lost, if you continue to see other beings as enemies, then no matter how much knowledge or education you have, no matter how much material progress is made, only suffering and confusion will ensue.

-- The Dalai Lama

1 comments:

  1. Anonymous4:47 PM

    This is such a clear, gentle and beautifully written admonition...to be careful. Thank you for this offering.
    annie c

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