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it is deeply important that we stay on course and keep to the path, seeing grasping and aggression, the underlying delusion, and the fear that feeds them for what they are. they make victims of everyone. of course most obviously, those we see being targeted and harmed, but ultimately the perpetrators of harm as well. because of interdependence, no one is left untouched. this is where violence and war seem to go so wrong. people become the targets, rather than the underlying causes and conditions, the ideology, the beliefs, the brokenness that fuels them. so nothing is healed or transformed. systems and structures of inequality, marginalization, oppression, and harm remain in place and grievance, violence, and destruction just begin a new cycle of pain and suffering.

it is we who have the power and choice to stop this. we have the responsibility. the buck stops here.

may hearts open, may wisdom arise.

~j

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