In Hope of Peace

No good has ever come from violence. The most primitive parts of our nature want to attack others, get mad at people for wronging us and make other people pay for our suffering. How many people have the higher motive of teaching by example how to endure suffering without retaliating and attacking other people. How many of us can take an insult and just let it ride and let it go? How many of us can pray for others and bless them without cursing them when they do something or say something to us that is mean or attacking? Most people feel entitled to be angry. Most people feel justified in attacking back. Most people have a short fuse when it comes to patience and they just blurt out a retort in kind without thinking about it or weighing the options. I would ask you to wait 60 seconds before you reply to people who insult or are insensitive to you. That way you can think about what you want to say without going into a full boil and exploding with your pride and anger spewing all over the place. If you think of all the times you got away with something or you thought you did, you could see that maybe this person was a vehicle for karma to come back to you for things you have done in the past. If you think of all the times you were sneaky and tricky and hid your faults and lied, you could let this negative action by someone be the vehicle through which your karma was balanced. That means you deserved it on some level, so why are you so indignant and upset when the karma comes back to you. It has to come back some way, so why not let this person in front of you be the avenue through which it comes and not get so bent out of shape and reactive about it. Let it balance itself out and stop going up into your lofty pride. Stop imagining that you are so good that you deserve very much or are entitled to great consolations. You have not given that much of yourself. You have not loved very much at all. You have mostly taken from others and worked the angles and manipulated audiences to get strokes and love and affection and compliments. You have been mostly selfish. You could turn over a whole new leaf and try to think of others for a change and stop thinking of yourself. You could love instead of take for a change. You could stop thinking of yourself as a piece of flesh and remember that you have a soul and you
are a soul. That would change your whole perspective. Then peace has a chance to live in your heart and mind and body.