Our own peace and world peace begins within. It starts with the observation that the hot emotions of anger, fear, and the media-fed perceptions of hatred create our own suffering. This awareness can be quite difficult as the popular culture tells us to look elsewhere for enemies and for someone else to blame! Once we realize that “they” are really just like us, we can soften our own rigidity and begin to gently help others become aware that violence, against ourselves and others, is never a solution.
As Buddhist writer Pema Chodron notes: “War and peace begin in the hearts of individuals.” Individual anger leads to collective anger and then to suffering.
A stream flows onward
Without anger or hatred.
Anger leads to war.
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