Buddhism As Education

What can we do when we have hurt people and now they cannot consider us to be their enemy? These people might be those in our family, in our community or in another country. We think you know the answer. There are few things to do. The first thing is to take the time to say, "I am sorry, I hurt you out of my ignorance, out of my lack of mindfulness, out of my lack of skillfulness. I will try my best to change myself. I don't dare to say anything more onto you". Sometimes, we do not have the intention to hurt, but because we are not mindful or skillful enough, we hurt someone. Being mindful in our daily life is important, speaking in a way that will not hurt anyone. The second thing to do is to try bring out the best part in ourselves, the part of the flower, to transform ourselves. That is the only way to demonstrate what you have just said. when you have become fresh and pleasant, the other person will notice very soon. Then, when there is a chance to approach t

Millions of people follow sports. If you love to watch soccer or baseball, you probably look for one team and identify yourself with them. You may watch the games with despair and elation. Perhaps, you will give a little kick or swing to help the ball along. If you do not take sides, the fun is certainly missing. In wars, we also pick sides, usually the side that is being threatened. Peace movements are born of this feeling. We get angry, we shout, but rarely do we rise above all this to look at a conflict the way a mother would, who is watching her two children fighting. She seeks only for their reconciliation. In order to fight each other, the chicks born from the same mother hen put colours on their faces. Putting colours on our own face is to make ourselves stranger to our own brothers and sisters. We can only shoot each other when they are strangers. Real efforts for reconciliation arise when we see with the eyes of compassion and that ability comes when we clearly see that

We have to make a beginning, howsoever humble, with this great truth which is very hard to understand and harder still to live with. We have to understand and grasp the truth that all waters of the ocean are one water and one body of the water, so it is with this universal teeming life - there can be no single separate unit or body of life in it. And as with the sea whose waters are in constant motion and through that motion have many waves and ripples on its surface, so it is with this life, it has the appearance of innumerable self existences on its surface. Seeing therefore so far as our small power would permit us, let us all grow a little nearer to that peace which comes to those who begin to live selflessly, who cease to be tossed with the waves of their own desire. We can hardly change the world for better, we can scarcely increase the fund of human happiness unless we cease to live for self. A man''s life in its lower reaches has been lived, whatever justification did e