MORE KILLING IS NOT THE ANSWER AHIMSA IS THE ONLY WAY

[Martin Luther King with his Nobel Prize nominee the Vietnamese Monk Thich Nhat Hanh]

You say that non violence Can only win With a civilized opponent It must be a pretty weak weapon To depend so On the qualities of the British! Does it really mean That Gandhi was just lucky?

Superior force Must win on the physical plane The soft must yield to the hard Water cannot move a rock

But if water keeps falling on the same spot Year after a year Even the rock wears thin

So what is this spot we target With non violence?

The target is our unstable mind That moves up with delight And down with dejection As we seem to win And lose

Everyone is a victor Sometime And a victim sometime In this merry go round This see saw that goes up and down

Only a still mind Can absorb this energy Stay unmoved And include both Victor and victim As energies follow The simple rule Of superior force

Non violence acts With this superior logic Knowing there is nothing to oppose Nothing to win And nothing to lose That all is one And one is all

That the mind can stay unshaken Even as the body collapses to the ground

As Gandhi said:

Let a hundred like me perish But let truth prevail The truth of superior moral force Not the half truth of inferior physical force

The satyagrahi Proceeds on the footing that You can only be harmed By your own thoughts It is the mind that is protected Not the body Not harming self in this You cannot harm others Others can harm your body But not your mind If we only had bodies The violent would win hands down But since we have minds the peaceful win Every time

More intelligence

Less violence Less intelligence More violence Killers will kill Whether we support them or not WE MUST NOT BE PARTY TO IT

The question, what is the solution Is wrongly put There is no solution Because there is no problem The correct question is a personal one What should be MY response The response should be ahimsa This is a timeless value It does not change with the season When things fall apart We pick the pieces And work with them....

Moral giants Tolstoy, Gandhi, Mandela, Martin Luther King, Dalai Lama, Aung San Sukyi, Thich Nhat Hanh Have agreed on this one thing Dont listen to the pygmies

Your own health And mine

Demands that we cultivate metta Not its opposite