Who are people that work with villians, co-conspirators?
In the book, Hitler’s Willing Executioners,
I recognized everyone including religious institutions we love can do heinous actions. Is it money, a faux sense of power, is it a neuropsychological flaw.
When Buddhist teachers,
Peter Mathison and Bernie Glassman took a group of folks to Auchswitz during Thanksgiving, sitting on the railroad tracks, they realized they could have and at times did act in violent ways.
Don’t good Buddhist practitioners maintain equanimity, stay detached and never use violent behavior.
What is it that drives humans to derive pleasure from retribution, guilt, having ready answers in arguments rather than actively listening and learning. Do you ask yourself, how is this possible, what’s wrong with these people. And who is the ‘these’.
Do you look within, what are you complicit with in your life journey… write down the uncomfortable
What can we do to support a new way of being and why does it seem like work, rather than pleasure.
Who are we?
And how do we mistake demagogues from authentic leaders, why do we follow the demagogues anyway.
Obviously, this is on my mind and heart a lot these days.
Did you ever think an administration would not fund the postal service as one of a number of illegal and immoral ways to control the election and citizens.
Is this ok to do?
Does this behavior bother you?
Why not?
Did you ever think an administration would not fund the postal service as one of a number of illegal and immoral ways to control the election and citizens?