There is always something to do and not a moment to stop

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Currently featuring “The Art of Living”

By Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh

In Plum Village we have organized retreats for Israelis and Palestinians.

Back in the Middle East, their lives may be a daily struggle to survive.

There is always something to do and not a moment to stop.

But when they come to Plum Village,

we create a peaceful environment for them to rest, stop, sit quietly,

and come back to themselves.

They just sit with us, walk with us, and eat with us.

They practice deep relaxation.

No one is doing anything special, yet it is already a revolution.

After only a few days of practice, they feel a lot better.

They have space inside, and they are able to sit there

and listen to the suffering of the other side with compassion.

Many young people on these retreats have told us that

it was the first time in their lives that they believed

peace was possible in the Middle East.

If we want to organize a peace conference or a conference on the environment,

we can do it in the same way.

World leaders can come together,

not merely to sit around a table and make decisions,

but to spend time together as friends and

establish a human relationship.

When we can listen deeply to each other’s suffering and difficulties,

and when we can express our insights and ideas using loving speech,

then our negotiations will be successful.

Once there is understanding,

releasing fear and anger becomes possible.

~

Restoring communication is the most basic practice for peace.

We have to organize so there is enough time to live together peacefully,

think peacefully, and act peacefully during the conference,

in order to give rise to the kind of insight that our nations need.

Peace is not something to hope for in the future.

Peace is something that we can be in every moment.

If we want peace, we have to be peace.

Peace is a practice and not a hope.

We say that our leaders can’t afford to spend

one or two weeks together like this, and yet

war and violence are costing us so much money and so many lives.

Our political leaders need the help of spiritual leaders

to address these global problems.

They have to work hand in hand.

True peace work requires a spiritual dimension—

the practice of peace.

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Our country is not at peace.

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More than half of our voting population has been brainwashed

to want more division and no unification.

The demagogue politicians now in control of our once reasonable nation

is hell bent to divide and conquer ‘we the people’,

Not for the benefit of ‘we the people’,

but only for their short-sighted personal gains

and ego driven power drives.

Most of the tRumpers do not bother to research what they are supporting.

Since they are registered rePulsians…

They have no choice.

They have willfully abandoned any shred of critical thinking…

To the point that:

Common sense, common dignity, critical thinking, forward thinking, mindfulness…

And anything that is dear to the sustainability of humanity …

Is thrown out the window.

~

Most of the tRumpers only source for news…

That’s if they are even remotely interested in

attempting to comprehend the issue by

gathering information from a wide spectrum of sources…

Nope.

They only get their ‘newz’ from ultra-right wing agenda freaks that

profit insanely for deceiving ‘we the people’.

Our poor, mentally vulnerable willfully ignorant masses

do not stand a chance to the manipulative demagogue politician.

Just like when tRump’s idol Hitler gained power…

The first thing he did was to send out a barrage of ‘executive orders’…

That,

with a stoke of a pen, removed all un-dupable personnel.

tRump has used Hitler’s methods as an inspiration…

so far

countless thousands of qualified personnel

has been replaced with unqualified goons.

It is 2-1-25…

Each day a new devastation is being ushered in by this

petulant childlike behavior.

his entire cabinet of unqualified characters

have established themselves as self-aggrandizing opportunist

willing to keep people from getting real medicine

and heavily promoting a phony phake remedy…

All while getting royalties and commissions for peddling these

Unsubstantiated snake oils.

Many tRumpers supported him believing that

the regular items we use everyday would become cheaper….

Turns out NOPE!

Shits getting more expensive…

And

That’s even before his insane tariffs raise the price of

any product remoting tied to international traid…

most of these supporters that were duped into believing that most of the everyday essential things we need would become cheaper…

but when they didn’t…

they spout what they’ve bought into…

oh…

doing with nutritious food and being homeless is great!

It will build character!!

Nothing diminishes their self defeating mode of duped-ness.

he’s pissing off our friends, he’s pissing off our allies…

he’s pissing off our neighbors…

he’s even pissing off our enemies.

aughMerica has lost it’s credibility to the world…

this time,

even if our country survives the next 4 years.

it will be exponentially more difficult to recover than his first term…

But,

To find peace and unification of our once reasonable country…

We’ve got to find common ground.

There are many profound perspectives about being human

that we all have no choice in flowing with.

We can be brainwashed, misinformed, purposely disinformed…

But…

This will always leave a lingering feeling that something’s not right.

If enough of them could be persuaded to

sit, relax, and find their ‘center’…

This commonly expressed perspective,

gleemed from common experience would be incontrovertible.

Common ground would be unwaveringly established.

Just to get the willfully ignorant supporters to

sit, relax, and find their ‘center’…

Would be an impossibility because, intellectually,

It’s impossible to reason with the unreasonable.

Even the venerable Thich Nhat Hann would be shunned because:

“he don’t look like an auuuughMeriCan”

And,

Zen… or

any other denomination of their own Christianity is considered ‘Evil’…

and they all do this sort of

sit, relax, and find their ‘center’… thang…

EVIL

!:-)!

a vicious cycle.

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