From the
Dhammapada, Silas:
Hate never yet conquered hate; only Love conquers hate.
Note good enough for you? May I gently remind you that
Christ was the Lord of Love? If it was not
love that He embodied, then
what else?
You would do well to watch an interview of the Dalai Lama, conducted some years ago by
Bill Moyers. In that interview, Bill Moyers asked HHDL about
harmlessness. And in a response that sounded more like
Jainism than Buddhism, His Holisness replied,
even mosquitoes ... should be met with harmlessness.
In his usual, jovial way
(Jovial - look up its etymology, Silas), HHDL smiled and laughed as he replied. When Moyers pushed the issue,
"If the mosquito returns?" ... HHDL looked down at his arm, and made a motion with his other hand as if to suggest,
I'd thump the mosquito away! He was still smiling, and let out an audible laugh, as he often does.
I think roaches are disgusting, and I usually kill them without hesitation, because they get away so quickly.
Are these not God's creatures too? Yes, they are, and they
do have a
niche in our ecosystem (the ecosystem we are fast destroying). I would
immediately welcome a roach, or hornet, into my aura, after I end its material existence ...
because while the one presents an unwanted pestilence to me, the greater being of the insect in question does not pose a threat.
I don't expect that to make sense. It isn't expressed very well. So let's just remember a few things about the
Lord of Love ...
He went about healing the sick, and spent his time amongst the poor and oppressed, and even when he did speak out against the Romans, he did not incite riots, or support the violence of a Barabbas, or an understandably confused Judas Iscariot.
Jesus taught us to
Love, and
like the Buddha, he emphasized that LOVE heals all wounds, and only Love conquers hate.
Until we can focus on the lesson of
Forgiveness, and learn to
Forgive, even as God does, we have
no right, and no place, to speak of such things as
(so-called) `Divine wrath,' or the
`vengeance of the Lord.' For these expressions will be misunderstood, and misapplied, as we have aptly seen!
There
is such a thing as
righteous indignation, as Jesus might have demonstrated at the Temple,
to prove a point regarding the money-changers ... and our great hypocrisy (then, as now). But this was a
controlled LESSON, and
in this demonstration it would be well to consider that
Jesus did not "lose his temper."
Silas, we have never spoken in person, but you know, if you'd actually sit there and tell me with a straight face that "
God's hate is a holy hate coming from a essence of pure love," I don't think we'd have anything to say to each, anyway.
~Zag
