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there are solutions to immigration and border challenges that don’t involve putting up razor wire on a bank of a river, where human beings and their children are desperate to cross. 

in a relative way, borders can serve a practical purpose. but we’d be wise not to lose our humanity over them. they are constructed and impermanent. they were not always there, nor will they always be there. they do not occur in nature, they are not visible from space, and they are not ordained from on high.

it’s mindboggling to watch professed “Christian” politicians not only resort to such cruelty but encourage and celebrate it as some sort of victory moment, or pass the blame for cruelty. they should read what the Bible and what Jesus have to say about immigrants.

but what do i know as a Buddhist, who still attempts to follow Jesus’ teachings? i know one thing, borders built on the outside likely begin as borders built on the inside. also, that no one person is more sacred or deserving of a full, healthy, and happy life than another. if all things come from God who is beginningless and endless, we can also say: if God is in one, God is in all. or as a Buddhist, we may say all beings have Buddhanature and are interdependent.

we forget ourselves, when we forget this, when we forget others.

so, if we want to take up immigration and border challenges, we should begin with opening the borders of our own heart and proceed with empathy and compassion. there will be a time when we need it as well. 

may hearts open, may awareness and wisdom arise.

~j

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