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I
Weep For All Sentient Beings
•Guru's
Talk•
Translated
and Edited by True Buddha Foundation Translation Team
During my “spiritual
travel”—
I visited again the “Land of
Bloodshed.” The spirits found in this place are all
wandering lost souls who had experienced the calamity of wars
and died tragic deaths from these battles.
This “Land of Bloodshed” is
not a small place.
Think about the number of battles
fought throughout history and the vast casualties of war. How
many citizens were forced from their homes, forced to live in
mud and squalor? The blood of those killed could form an ocean
and their bones could be piled as high as a mountain. The
bodhisattvas witnessing these killings wept tears of
heart-wrenching pain.
There was a city where all the
people were massacred.
There was an entire ethnic group
that was annihilated.
There was an entire country of
people that was exterminated.
In this world, there are many
“rebellions,” “civil wars,” “invasions,”
“combats,” and “world wars.” How can one possibly
count how many? How can one possibly count how many casualties
and victims?
In times of war and the chaos it
creates, cities and countries are destroyed, families are torn
apart, couples are separated, mothers and children are made
homeless, the innocent are slaughtered, women are raped, young
children suffer the pain of hunger and thirst, people run
frantically to escape, distressed husbands and wailing wives,
children crying in fear and confusion, mothers crying for
destroyed families…. Such is a great tragedy of the human
world, a cruelty of the highest kind.
How many died with great
resentment?
How many homes were burned and
destroyed?
How many were looted?
How many rapes were committed?
During my “spiritual travel,”
in the Land of Bloodshed, I saw people’s parents hiding,
trying to escape death. I imagined them as my own parents and
felt their tremendous fear and helplessness. I saw men’s
wives and daughters lose their homes, and I felt the great
torment of the men being separated from their beloved ones. I
observed fear-filled souls and spirits of sentient beings
wandering without refuge. I imagined them as my own family and
felt the pain and the suffering of losing them.
I wept for all the sentient
beings.
How I wish:
People would treasure the lives
of others.
That they would not steal and
loot others’ possessions.
[That they would] not rape.
[That there would be] no running
for one’s life, no begging for food or losing one’s home.
And [that there would be] no
burning of homes.
Every world leader, before giving
a command or making a statement, must think it through
thoroughly, then think it through again, and then think it
through a third time. Every world leader must not think for
himself, but for all sentient beings. In human life, there is
birth, old age, sickness, and death. No one can avoid them.
Why should we create even more human tragedies?
Living in peace and harmony is a
good thing, isn't it?!
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