To the editor: Studying Bonnie Kristian’s Christmas Day piece about ending war, illness and cruelty, I used to be struck by the impotence that Christianity instills in a few of its followers. The message of Christmas appears to be that God will save us, and but right here we’re, greater than 2,024 years later, with struggle, sickness and cruelty nonetheless plaguing us.
On the different finish of this spectrum of perception, for instance, is the best instructing of Buddhism — that each one individuals possess inside them infinite potential for good. And, since virtually all our issues are created by us, the facility to resolve them lies inside us. We don’t have to look to an out of doors energy or power.
That’s the place Buddhist observe is available in. In modern phrases, we may name this observe “human revolution.” We have to change ourselves on a elementary degree, achieve mastery over our extra base instincts and domesticate our nobler qualities.
Then, we abnormal people can deliver a few peaceable and compassionate world.
David Tempest, Mar Vista
