World Peace
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How can we wish for world peace
for all our lives,
while we wish to feed on victims of violence
for all our lives?
- Stonepeace
A disciple once asked the Buddha, "Why are there wars? When will there be no more wars? When will there be no more wars? When will there be world peace?" The Buddha replied, "If you want to know when there will be peace, just listen to the cries from the slaughterhouses at night. Only when there are no more cries from the slaughterhouses will there be no more wars."…
Killing is a very cruel thing. Whether it is a cow, sheep, chicken, duck, fish, shrimp or crab, an animal will feel indescribable terror when it knows that it is about to be killed. When the knife cuts through its body, the pain is completely intolerable. Human beings cruelly kill animals in order to satisfy their craving for good food. Rivers of blood have been shed. Animals have consciousness like us, so they feel a sense of loathing towards their killers and want to get revenge, which they may carry out when they are reborn as human beings. Hence we can see why there is no way to stop wars from happening [unless killing is ended].
Furthermore, since all living beings are continually reborn through the cycle of the Six Realms, those pigs, chickens, ducks or other animals could have been our parents, relatives or friends in previous lives. So do we dare to eat their flesh just to satisfy our craving? We who are learning to behave like the Buddha should have compassion. Refraining from eating meat is in accord with the Five Precepts that all Buddhists follow [though this is not stated directly]. The first of these precepts is 'no killing'. Following this rule helps to nurture compassion and loving-kindness. -
World peace is sometimes won with the sword when too much passive resistance finds no liberation....
release Aung San Suu Kyi!
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Originally posted by Fcukpap:
World peace is sometimes won with the sword when too much passive resistance finds no liberation....
release Aung San Suu Kyi!
After so many years, do you think it is peace at last? -
Albert einst said that true peace would only take root provided if mankind adopts vegetarianism. The peace through sword never last, the peace through love never die. The wise conquer the world begins from within, whereas the ignorance against others. Confucius and Buddha achieved and conquer the universe through its teaching of harmoniously love :) wow! She was so beautiful.
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Nobody wish to be killed and nobody wish to cut themselves with knives. If we wish to have a long and healthy life, we should refrain from killings. This is not Buddha's law, this is the law of nature.
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Not sure who or whose parents are in such a form now
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Originally posted by Dawnfirstlight:
After so many years, do you think it is peace at last?for eons humans are still struggling to be emancipated from the chains of desires as well as from freedom...to be enlightened...
there is but one last best hope...even if it fails, which has failed us time and time again, yet continuously relived, prayed or chanted, and fought for...
peace is an ever lasting hope ... and the last ray of light which must never fail...
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THE PURE COURAGE TO BE BACK AGAIN AND STAY ON FOR PEACE AND FREEDOM ...
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