The Peaceful Mind
Beginning of the Peaceful
World
Clean the world, clean the mind
greed makes many people steal others
Greed makes many people steal others’ belongings, rob other
people’s houses, kill family members for insurance, or sue other people for
trivial mistakes.
Delusion
makes us crazy and forces us to do things without thinking about what is right
and wrong.
In
the bigger picture, when anger, greed, and delusion are manifested in crowds,
they can cause war, pollution, and disease.
In
contrast, what will make people know how to forgive and forget? What
will make them know how to be satisfied with what they have and can earn? How
should they spend their money? How should we behave and how can we behave well?
A pure mind will make people think good thoughts, speak kind words, be
optimistic, and make good clear decisions. A pure mind will enable them to
behave well based on their positions and duties in their communities. It is
difficult for anyone to have a pure mind, but at least anyone can focus his
mind to reduce or stop his bad thoughts. If everyone tried to clean his or
her mind, then we could create a good, forgiving, sharing, and helping
community. That is why improving the world starts from mind cleansing.
Once
I heard, “all animals/humans on earth are happiest when we are understood.” It
would be very difficult to always be understood. But at least, we can start by
trying to understand ourselves first. Whenever our minds are (Crystal) clear,
we can actually see who we are, what we need, and what we actually need to do
and to possess.
If
we think of everyone in this world as our friends without the separation of
nation, religion, culture, and race, then all the resources actually belong to
the earth and everyone. The people who possess the important resources, which
are inaccessible to the other groups, need to know how to share.
respect for human rights
When greed
gets into the minds of a certain group of people, sharing becomes unreasonable
terms for them. When anger gets into the minds of the people who lose the
benefits and interests, threatening, hurting, killing, and using inappropriate
power become reasonable terms for them. And when delusion or ignorance gets
into the minds of the people who do not receive the right information,
uncontemplated support, resistance, or hate, can intentionally become their
concerns.
When
we talk about “clean” peaceful solutions, the solutions should be based on
sharing, compassion, and pure wisdom. There should be no killing in terms of
“respect for human rights”. There should be no one who has to killed and no one
who has to kill others, if we really respect human rights. The right to life
belongs to every human and no one should deserve to be killed, especially
innocent people. A clean economic development also should not be based on greed.
And pure support and encouragement should not be based on ignorance.
