Pure minds for a pure land

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U.N. official: 'Madness' to attack Iran - Focus on Iran - MSNBC.com

Madness is the suffering which will be seen if arrogant national leaders do not stop this march to nuclear confrontation. The US can point to the Iran, Korea, or who ever is next but until it looks at it’s own march to Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD’s) it will not secure anything but more suffering for all mankind.

Responsibility In An Era Of Consequences
by David Krieger, May 17, 2007

…We must also withdraw our support from any programs that seek to maintain nuclear arsenals into the future. A prime example is the Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW) program now being developed at the US nuclear weapons laboratories. This is but one example of a dangerous weapons program unworthy of our humanity. Rather than continuing the nuclear arms race, largely with itself, while ignoring its obligations under international law for nuclear disarmament, the United States must take a leadership role in ending the nuclear weapons threat to humanity. This is only likely to happen if US citizens demand such action from their government. http://www.wagingpeace.org/articles/2007/05/17_krieger_Responsibility_In_An_Era.htm

Our government is leading this race and we the people have to tell them that we want a true path to lasting peace. If America’s leaders had enough humility to withdraw this march and redouble all efforts with the UN to support all avenues to build trust and mutual respect for all life, we might avert the horrors humanity has witnessed at Hiroshima and Nagasaki once and for all.

You and I will avert it or allow it. Please act today for tomorrow.

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  We must bring back the land I was so proud to be born a citizen of. Before we were coerced in fear from our freedoms, civil rights, human rights, equality, justice for all and defender of humanity for the world.

Remember the great truth of “There is nothing to fear but fear itself”

Before the Patriot Act, authorizing warrentless surveillance. Before we bypassed the United Nations and took justice into our own hands only to find our high handed self-righteousness was based on faulty intelligence. Before we were told that evil was “over there”. Yet to apologize and withdraw from the shock and awe.

Remember we were warned “Beware the military complex.”, way before the Military Commissions Act.

Before we withdrew from the Kyoto Treaty because it did not serve the economy. Before we abandoned the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty designed to build true inroads for peace throughout the world.

Remember that “An injustice to one is an injustice to all”. http://thenewshole.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/07/03/256978.aspx

The last bastion of my being an American most recently striped away from me by the highest court in the land failing to uphold the strict separation of church and state.

 

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Less noticeable was their ruling of injustice about the medicinal value of a plant, a ruling which spits in the face of truth.

Now I know the deepest meaning of “Give me liberty or give me death”. You can not harness free will and you can not achieve justice without truth.

This July 4^th I will celebrate my sanity and treasure my humanity

as I greave for a  great nation I once knew of before.

I pray for her recovery and return.

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How profound, “There are not two lands, pure or impure in themselves. The difference lies solely in the good or evil of our minds“. This same Gosho states that we must not seek purity outside our own selves. The teaching explains what that purity is within, that which everyone has equally within, the aspects of enlightenment; mercy, compassion, wisdom, true self and freedom. True Buddhism also elucidates what the darkness within us is; greed, anger and ignorance. By reflecting upon your own mind you can elevate from the darkness into the light. This is the practice of True Buddhism, this is how chanting 'Nam myoho renge kyo' works to benefit the individual. Because it is based on the universal principle of cause and effect, belief is not required or commanded. This law operates throughout the macro and micro of all existence without any belief.