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The Dhammapada

– excerpts –

What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: our life is the creation of our mind.

If a man speaks or acts with an impure mind, suffering follows him as the wheel of the cart follows the beast that draws the cart.

What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: our life is the creation of our mind.

If a man speaks or acts with a pure mind, joy follows him as his own shadow.

“He insulted me, he hurt me, he defeated me, he robbed me...”   Those who think such thoughts will not be free from hate.

For hate is not conquered by hate: hate is conquered by love. This is a law eternal.

Many do not know that we are here in this world to live in harmony. Those who know this do not fight against each other.

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Note from the writer of this site: I agree that hate is conquered by love. Or as I would put it: hate is dissolved by genuine love. That’s the ideal way to deal with evil beings.

But the cruel reality is that the U.S. military violently murders innocent children around the world, and some way must be found to stop them as soon as possible. There aren’t enough loving, enlightened people in the world to stop them through the power of love. Until there are, some additional way must be found, because real children are being cruelly murdered NOW, and we have to do something that works NOW. That’s why, in the interests of realism and pragmatism, I advocate stopping them by whatever force and power people are actually capable of, as long as it’s a non-violent force and power. When we’re all a lot more spiritually evolved (if the human race lasts that long), we’ll be able to stop evil predators purely through the mass power of love.

In spite of my own limitations I feel intuitively, and I’ve seen it too, that the power of love is the greatest power there is. So that’s why I’ve got these excerpts from the great Buddhist Dhammapada here. It’s telling spiritual truths that need to be told, for the sake of everybody.

Naturally the ideal is to “live in harmony” and “not fight against each other”. But that doesn’t mean we should be passive wimps and do nothing to stop the U.S. military as it murders innocent children and their parents around the world. We all have an absolute moral duty to protect all the world’s children. And the only effective initial way is a massive, non-violent, total non-cooperation with the murderers — such as not paying tax money to the war-criminal federal government. And for good people outside the U.S. — boycotting all American products.

As Mahatma Gandhi said:

“Non-cooperation with injustice is a sacred duty.”

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The Isa Upanishad (excerpts)

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