REMEMBER, WE ARE BORN FAIR AND JUST

These days, in our country, its so much easier to see the swarms of flies in the hate and pain, we inflict on one another, yet the knowledge of Buddha-nature potential in each one of us has to sustain us. A contemporary teacher of Buddhism, has said: " I think as a species, we are innately friendly. Our natural bent, our natural inclination when we are not threatened or frightened is to befriend and to console and to appreciate other people ". She defines happiness as...a feeling oneself in warm relationship in that way, in friendliness, with other people, with one's self,, with people that we know, and with people that we dont know, with people that we hear about in different parts of the world in different situations and we feel that our heart goes out to them ".

Happenings of the last few years place before us the worst of human nature, and also the very best. But we read, view and hear more of the former than the latter. We need to share more stories of those who would not give in to misused power, those who offered compassion to others in the midst of of personal horror, those who placed their humanity before their religious differences. We are hungry for these reports because at times when its so easy to forget, they remind us of what it means to be fully human.

May be we are making a mistake in striiving to become good, become compassionate, become fair, just to become anything. Because all we need to do is to remember that the gift of humanity we are born with, our true human nature is that innately, we are good, we are compassionate, we are fair and just.

Only when we get past the forgetting of this and the numbing fear that allows hate-mongers to influence us, can we be what deep down we truly are from the start.