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Dr. Michael Nobel's Endorsement selflessness to simply accept violence as a natural human characteristic. One only has to think of the millions of people whose lives are devoted to teaching children life skills, to fighting pain, disease and poverty, to pro- tecting lives and property and to promoting ideals of morality and truth. We have a shining example here today, in the person of his holiness Luang Por Dhammajayo. These, rather than barbaric exceptions, are surely the ones who reflect the true nature of man. These are our hope and salvation even if the good that they do is often over-shadowed in the media by the evil done by comparatively few others. Let me come back to the practice of meditation. I have never practiced this method before I met his holiness and even if it was the first time in my life I still felt a strong feeling of inner peace and relax- ation. Anyone with such inner peace cannot believe or engage in external violence. I am very grateful to Luang Por Dhammajayo for introducing medita- tion to me as a method to obtain this harmony and achieve a peaceful state of mind. I have as a con- sequence decided to join a retreat course organized by the centre and learn more about how to obtain this state of bliss. 29