Good morning!
We have a peaceful and harmonious Sunday morning after sittings and service as usual. We don’t, however, know what will happen next. About this time on a hot summer morning seventy-one years ago the first A-bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, claiming tens of thousands of people’s lives instantly, creating a hell scene with ghosts screaming and straying everywhere. The second one fell on Nagasaki and the dead mounted to more than scores of thousands by the end of the year. The radiation still tortures and deaths continue even today.
The most imminent catastrophe we can have is nuclear holocaust any moment, even by a man by mandate, madness, mistake, terrorism, or by natural disaster. Human civilizations have never realized equality and democracy, but are rather vested with the fivefold calamity of delusion, bondage, discrimination, exploitation, and destruction. Obama recently visited Hiroshima and said, “Death fell from the sky.” Humans create Death and conquer it by conquering karma with the five blisses of awakening, freedom, equality, love, and peace.
This year’s Hiroshima Peace Proclamation quoted Obama’s address there: “We must have the courage to escape the logic of fear,” a world free from that “absolute evil,” that ultimate inhumanity. The fear comes from the delusion of a separate self, individually or collectively, which comes from karma. Anyone can sit still, still karma, see dharma, serve and save all with the fivefold bliss, living limitless light, liberation, love, likeness, and life, making every day a good day, freed from fallacy, fear, and failure.
Lt. General Leslie Groves, head of the Manhattan Project, acted on fear of failure of the Project and planned the success of the bombs’ effectiveness against Truman and Stimson, who feared outdoing Hitler’s atrocities. We must make ourselves free from fear personally as well as making the paradigm shift from the pyramidal power civilization to a cyclical life-net culture socially. Please read the free resourceful book Nuclear War by Raymond Wilson, whose chapter, “Workable World Peace Plan” I forwarded to our listserv.
8/7/16
Note: Raymond G. Wilson, NUCLEAR WAR: Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and A Workable Moral Strategy for Achieving and Preserving World Peace is available free in pdf format here:
http://sun.iwu.edu/~rwilson/PNDclass.html
