Well I can see my comment was totally wasted on all the “fix-it-the-way-we’ve-always-done-it” and “evil-must-be-met-with-evil” drones here. Go ahead, keep on “fighting back” and meeting violence with more violence, justifying it with tales of jihad planes flying into buildings and suicides by innocents who got bullied too many times.“An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind” – Mahatma GandhiEnjoy your dark, sightless reality.
This is the most un-Zen-like answer to the problem of violence. Shame on you.
Those above who condone this response (the “officer of the law” and the military “Those who do violence must be dealt with using violence.” responders,) are speaking from the old paradigm of reality, the same paradigm that the violence comes from. Responding with revenge & violence will only beget more revenge & violence, EVEN IF violence seemed to be the only choice & response to violent people.
The only way to permanently end this cycle is to birth a new paradigm where everyone changes, even bullies. And it is the spiritual people of the world, the Zen folks and other light-bringers, whose job it is to birth that new paradigm.
Well I can see my comment was totally wasted on all the “fix-it-the-way-we’ve-always-done-it” and “evil-must-be-met-with-evil” drones here. Go ahead, keep on “fighting back” and meeting violence with more violence, justifying it with tales of jihad planes flying into buildings and suicides by innocents who got bullied too many times.“An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind” – Mahatma GandhiEnjoy your dark, sightless reality.