Awake on the right side of the
grass this morning. It’s always refreshing to see the sun and hear the birds.
The air is cool today. The morning espresso was more than usually welcome. I
cancelled our morning Zen Service this morning in deference to the Christian
holiday of Easter. Easter, like
Passover, is a holiday of hope, a hope for peace, and yet here we are still
warring with one another both figuratively and actually. Will we ever learn to
stop using violence and hate speech to address our differences and conflicts? Given
the history of humanity, I somehow doubt it. This saddens me greatly.
War and threats of war rarely, if
ever, are useful. Instead, they widen differences, create fear and rationales
for further conflict. It seems to me, those who consider themselves to be
followers of Jesus ought to beat their swords into plows, sowing seeds of
understanding, love, and peace. After
nearly eighty years of life and witness to war and threats of war, I should be
far more pessimistic than I am. Instead, I am hopeful, hopeful that the Christ,
the Buddha, will rise in the hearts of our civilizations and open the skies to
let the sunshine of peace shine in.
May we each find our way,
Daiho
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