Reflections on Gaza and the Ritual of Mutual Destruction - A Buddhist Perspective »
Posted By Dionys 11 months, 1 week ago in Religion
A Buddhist perspective on Gaza / Israel.
San Francisco, CA (USA) -- Gaza is burning. The violence must end before anything else can happen. We can all think nice thoughts about right and wrong, who acted first, who acted worst. We can argue about politics — national, international, geopolitical, corporate. Whatever intellectual thread my mind pulls at quickly comes to a hopeless tangle.
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CRYMTYPHON11 months, 1 week ago
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Buddhists believe that people are reincarnated, - and they teach how to avoid being reincarnated; because the world is a wheel trapping people in a circle of strife, death
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and birth.
A strict buddhist wants off the merry-go-round.
What we have in Gaza, is an endless cycle of violence, retribution, cease-fire, burial, - back to violence.
It's the circle of life; it is no illusion; and no one has a solution. -
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canadianrancher5711 months, 1 week ago
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As I was reading the artical there was one thing that seemed to keep coming to mind and that was how so many people of religion have beliefs but are lacking faith.
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To me beliefs are what we form from reading scripture and therefore it is subject to our own biases and prejudices. Faith is where we go beyond our prejudices and biases and act in the best interests of not ourselves but others.
I live alone a major hiway and many times come apon people who have go off and are stuck,whenever I come on someone who is off the road I make a point to stop and help and was told by an RCMP officier that this is a risky thing to do. I believe that it is my faith that compels me to stop and help, and it is the same in situations like the mid east it should be our faith that we can make things better for all that directs us not our beliefs. -
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