Good morning!

Even though it is unusually, unseasonably chilly, we have now a fine, quiet daybreak and a warm spring day.

We have different ways of understanding and acting depending on individual judgments, social justifications, and natural justices.

These may collectively and correspondingly become dictatorship, democracy, and dharma, natural law.

Killing without due legal recourse is dictatorial; killing beyond the boundaries of states is undemocratic; and killing without insight and far-sight is unnatural.

The news of killing a person has created a global sensation, but the news of a young lady, found and identified, who saved many lives from the tsunami with her mortal broadcast, didn’t.

The Buddha said, “Better than conquering thousands upon thousands in wars is conquering oneself. This is the true war conqueror.”

Killing a person without the due course of law is misjudgment, beyond national boundaries is beyond social justification and, much more, beyond the natural law of justice.

Killing by whatever claims calls for enmity, escalation, and endless struggles and suffering, without truly secure safety, satisfaction, and solution.

There is no killing in the due course of dharma: we should not and need not kill anyone, but rather keep truth, peace, harmony, holiness, and happiness for all, forever.

5/3/11