Pat Macpherson (Wisdom Quarterly)
Trying to meditate when you feel like you're living in "The Matrix" can be trying (WQ)It seems obvious the government is not there to protect and serve Americans, so much as it serves and protects itself or undermines the rest of the planet. Living in underground bases (in California, New Mexico, and elsewhere, as
Bill Hamilton reveals), killing flocks of birds who trigger HAARP chemtrail-arrays, testing on its own citizens, promoting covert and overt wars as
economic policy (nothing to do with the moral issues it claims as the reason for war or the blood revenge for 9/11), and robbing the world monetary system blind before changing the monetary system towards world government. Sarah Palin, whose coronation is orchestrated by Fox News and the conservative media, has become a willing pawn. Did she target Gifford and Arizona with crosshairs? Yes, but only because right wing extremists love guns. Its our clandestine policing forces stirring up fear wherever they can -- even if it means losing a member of congress to a
Manchurian candidate. We have to love it, and make every effort to understand it, but we don't have to support it.
What would Buddha do, or Gandhi, or Martin Luther King Jr. (whose day coincidentally is celebrated on Monday [January 24])?
Gandhi and MLK Jr., influenced by the Buddha and the Indian spiritual heritage he had influenced, did what they did -- nonviolent resistance and peaceful noncompliance with the wrongs they saw in their countries.
Original Goodness
The Buddha would do what all buddhas do: "To cease from all that is unwholesome, to do all that is wholesome, and to purify our minds ourselves, this is the teaching of all buddhas" (Dhammapada Verse 183).
According to Charlotte Perkins Gilman: It is told that the Buddha, going out to look on life, was greatly daunted by death. "They all eat one another!" he cried and called it [akusala, unwholesome]. This process, [when] I examined [and] changed the verb, said, "They all feed one another," and called it good.
And the moral of the story is, don't shoot people even if you're authorized to kill by peace-loving government, because it will follow you, the doer of the deed, as it follows those who instigate it and those who approve of it, that is, those who rejoice and delight in it. Karma is that complex and powerful.
