Steve, this is an occasion for me to review attentively the talk, I've been watching the video with captions, sentence per sentence, and was about to comment on the one you started out with.
We are not responsible for the evil in this world. God is. But it makes all the difference in the world what sphere of thought we are attuned to’ -~
For example. I'd say, the sphere of destruction. Mr. Putin and his buddies seem to be perfectly attuned to it.
In the Palestinian conflict, I saw both parties well attuned to the particular sub-sphere of destructive retaliation, with innocent people drawn into the deadly vortex of mass karma.
We may also be convinced that we are attuned to some positive sphere of thought, whereas we are attuned into a negative one. This is because, as unenlightened human beings, our discrimination is imperfect.
I see two spheres of thought when it comes to the Ukrainian/Russia issue. One is the collective and the other the individual. So we have people in countries who want to be more isolated and separate in their identities. Eric and I touched on this issue when we chatted about people having their own path and dharma. As you see though I am using an international example here. The question starts arising when two dharmas or paths cross at an intersection. What happens? Do they merge ideas or come in conflict? Is it even possible to merge different spheres of thought without conflict and at times war?
XI and his communist buddies have tortured meditators in that country… the Falun Gong . I believe we must prove we can no longer take a chance letting other nations invade their neighbors, especially those who consistently torture and murder opposition. If we do we will only encourage the Chinese to do the same to Taiwan.
