Posted by Kyaw Myaing
| Hi friends, This is my ongoing discussion about National Reconciliation. I think that for the nation to heal itself, it has to begin from each individual person. As Burma/Myanmar is a country where the majority of its citizens are Buddhists, I would like to give a Buddhist example. The Buddha once said in the Dhammapada: "Hatred never ceases by hatred When a person does Vipassana, which means "to look carefully", you will see all kinds of different thoughts going on in the mind and if some one has done harm to you or a member of your family or one of your friends, you feel a pain inside. Under the heading Vipassana, there is a method of looking at the thoughts. It is called Seitta Nupassana. It means looking carefully at the thoughts. You have to be aware of the thoughts whether they are pleasant thoughts, hatred or thoughts of revenge. In life there is always the law of karma which is the law of cause and effect. If one person does violence to another and if this violence is repeated again and again, it will not end. It starts the upward spiral of hatred and destruction. Look at what is happening in the middle east. There is the thought of revenge, the action of revenge and this spiral goes up and up and many nations become involved in such hatred and revenge. Whatever other people can do to you, your heart will feel the pain only if you let the pain come inside. If you say "I am suffering this pain because of my bad karma. This is because of my bad deeds in the past" feelings of hatred in your heart will subside and you will find the beginning of inner peace. You can ask, "how do you know". I can only reply, "I know because this has been my personal experience". In the jungle, in the world and in the universe, there will always be beings who are stronger than us and if we inflict harm and injury on beings weaker than us in anger, some one bigger and stronger than us will appear one day to do the same thing to us. The is how karma works. Best regards and metta, Kyaw Myaing |
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