Make Peace, Not War,

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All world one happy family.

Many wise souls have said through the centuries that seeking revenge for an apparent wrong done never results in peace.

The war to end all wars never ended any wars.

However justified a war may appear to be to one party, it never can win over love and compassion.

The pen has always been mightier than the sword.

I would unhesitantly promote unilateral disarmament for any nation.

I regret that the great Indian epics promote wars, where they could have twisted the tales to reflect the results of love and forgiveness.

I copy a fairy story from an earlier blog of mine.

A New Year's Fairy Tale - Make Peace, Not War

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   A Joke:  A visitor to the USA was being shown the latest computer technology.
          
                 The computer expert explained how in the USA even a marriage was done with emails.

                 The visitor expressed his utter surprise, saying, in his land a marriage was done with a female.

A New Year's Fairy Tale - Make Peace, Not War

              
                In ancient times there lived a king by the name of Rama. One day he went hunting in the forest with his queen which had been given the name Sita when she was but a little infant baby by her parents.

               The King got lost in the jungle, and was forced to seek refuge in a deserted hut.

                Regrettably, the hut was the hideaway of the gang leader of a local group of bandits.

                During the night, as King Rama was fast asleep from his hunting exertions, the bandit leader, names Ravan happened by to deposit his loot, and seeing a beautiful lady asleep in the hut, simply bundled up her and rode away.

               King Rama, when he woke up in the morning, was full of remorse at the loss of his wife. He sensed, from the footprints of persons, and horses, that some one had come and abducted his queen.

               King Rama was wise. He knew that it was not up to him to judge the actions of others.

               His duty was to return to his palace, and continue with his duties of running the state.

               He even secretly prayed that no harm would come to the abductor of his queen, because at his heart, he truly believed that even to wish harm of an enemy was essentially to wish harm on himself, because all life was interconnected as one whole.

               Whilst the King continued with his stately duties, our bandit leader Ravan found little joy from his capture.

               From that very moment of that lady's capture, things began to go wrong with his plans. His loots were recaptured, his hiding place was raided, his gang began in-fighting, and he was left with no time to play around with his prize.

              Ravan was overcome with grief at all his evil ways, and in an effort to make some amends, escorted his human bounty back to her home town.

               He was too shameful to walk up to the palace of King Rama, just leaving the Queen Sita by the city gates.

               King Rama happened to be at that very gate on a state duty, recognised his Queen, welcomed Ravan. pardoned him, and all lived happily ever after.

               In this fairy tale there was no need to bring the death and destruction of any war.

               Just using the power of love and a pure heart, the fairy tale could be ended with evil turned good, and happiness prevailed.

              In this story any resemblance to names in other stories is purely coincidental.


 Wishing you every joy and abundance,  Shree-1

My World is a reflection of my feelings

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   Over the year of my intense studies on the nature of life that I could conduct because I had time made available to me because I had freed myself from the confines of paid employment, I have logically accepted, like 2 + 2 = 4, that the world we experience is, indeed a reflection of our inner thoughts and feelings.

  If I do not like my boss, I have to ask myself as to what aspect of my own self do I not like that the boss is reflecting.

  If I change myself to like myself in totality, over time, but a time short enough to notice, the boss's behaviour towards me will also change.

  The poor, it has been said, think more often about money, and its lack, than the rich do. I know the feeling very well. 

  According to the new theory I want to believe in, if I stop thinking of my lack all the time, and live in the abundance that I do have, not necessarily financial abundance, my financial stress will ease. 

  Wishing you joy and abundance,   Shree-1

The World is getting better

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All world one happy family.

A Joke:    As I walked away with my bag from the carousel at Heathrow airport, I felt someone tapping at my shoulder, "Excuse me sir, that is my bag you are taking away," said the man wanting to arrest my attention.

     "Did you not see the big yellow strapping I have put on thais bag?" the man continued accusing me of stealing his bag.

     I handed him his bag apologising, "I did vaguely wonder why someone would have put that big yellow band on my bag, but that strapping did not worry me at all."


The world is getting better

     I started this blogging, over a year ago, from the assumption that the world was a terrible place needing improvement. My focus was the abject poverty that exists in the cities of India (seen some) and of Brazil, Mexico, etc (read about). My concern was also for the treatment, or rather, the nil treatment, that the diseased and disabled received in these countries.

   These days I focus more on the nicer things that already exist in the world. The sunsets, the gardens, the beauty of buildings, and of spontaneous kindness shown by the people who make the world go around, the postmen, and the bus drivers, for instance.

 I am happy to notice nice things happening at a world level as well.

 When President Obama was elected afro-american rejoiced in the dignity of mankind expressed by all America, that a person is to be judged solely on his abilities, and on nothing other. Many said that they thought they would never live long enough to see such days of human understanding come to mankind.

  The recent trip of Her Majesty the Queen to Ireland also shows the world is getting better. Hatred is not being passed on from generation to generation, as a legacy.

  Steps are being taken to bring everlasting peace in the middle east.

 As far as the poor are concerned, I console myself that the people I regard as being poor may have accepted their way of life, and, in all probability. many of them are more contented than I am. I have seen residents of so called slums of cities in India enjoying their festivals more than I have every enjoyed any single day.

  The others may be given strength by their own dire circumstances to win over their grime and poverty.

  As far as the disabled are concerned, I am reminded that people may not be clinically healed of their maladies, yet be overcome with a spirit of joyous union with 'God' allowing them a greater degree of happiness than I ever hope to achieve.

   I am so happy to see the world getting better.

   Wishing you joy and abundance,  Shree-1