This post is so appropriate to be read again since we have a Whitehourse full of “haters” for the next 4 years at least. I wish for them a change of heart before to much damage is done to the world! In gassho, Shokai
In The Dhammapada (1936) translated by Irving Babbitt it says, “Whatever a hater may do to a hater, or an enemy to an enemy, a wrongly-directed mind will do us greater mischief (page 9).” We have had some terribly “wrongly-directed” minds in 2012—minds that have killed and minds that have kept legislation from being passed to help create jobs, feed the hungry, take care of the poor, the elderly, the disabled, our veterans, women’s healthcare, and more. At this Christmas time it would behoove us to review our thoughts and actions to evaluate their intentions and their consequences.
Have you had thoughts of hatred toward others this year? Have you created “mischief” in your life and theirs by the actions you have taken as those actions followed those thoughts down that path of negativity and revenge? Revenge does not have to be a great and dramatic event like what happened…
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