Good morning!
We have a bright sunny Sunday morning in peace and truth after our sittings and service.
All over the world, however, we have dark days of death tolls – 129 killed and more than
a few hundred injured by the terrorists’ bombs and shootings in Paris. We may see
vengeance after vengeance – an endless tit for tat, by all means.
The Buddha said, “enmity is never appeased by enmity, but by non-enmity. This is the
eternal truth here.” So long as we remain in the karma realm, we want to conquer the
enemy – enmity endures for eternity. He said, “Better than conquering thousands upon
thousands is conquering one-self. This is the true conqueror.”
He provided the way to still our karmas and see the dharmas of unconditioned peace
(nirvana) and unsurpassed awakening (bodhi) in perpetual peace and total truth. It is this
sitting and stilling bodily, verbal, and mental karmas (actions, functions, habits,
heredities). Anyone can cultivate and verify it.
Karma creates me-ism, materialism, militarism, and money-ism, causing wars, warming,
extinction, etc. with delusion, bondage, discrimination, exploitation, and extermination.
Dharma donates limitless life, light, liberation, and love, delivering peace, prosperity, etc.,
with awakening, freedom, equality, love, and peace.
11/15/15
