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On Compassion ( for China ? )
As buddhas are my constant friends,
Boundless in the benefits of merit they bring to me,
How else may I repay their goooodness,
But by making living beings happy?
By helping beings we repay the ones
Who gave themselves for us and plunged into the hells.
Should beings therefore do great harm to me,
I'll strive to bring them only benefit.
The Way Of The Bodhisattva --Shantideva
(6, 119-120)
Boundless in the benefits of merit they bring to me,
How else may I repay their goooodness,
But by making living beings happy?
By helping beings we repay the ones
Who gave themselves for us and plunged into the hells.
Should beings therefore do great harm to me,
I'll strive to bring them only benefit.
The Way Of The Bodhisattva --Shantideva
(6, 119-120)
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Comments
First of all, I think we can safely say that the Chinese populace is fed as much propaganda and distorted information as the rest of the world. It's how the Government controls the masses. So I could never, and have never, held the Chinese people per se, in any way responsible for what is happening, or for what has happened in the past.
Secondly, if a monk, newly released from a prolonged period of imprisonment, held by the Chinese, can say that "In all this time, my greatest fear was that I would lose my Compassion for the Chinese." who are we to argue?
Hate the deed, and not the do-er.
For decades now, I have been offering prayers for the Chinese people alongside the Tibetans, whilst finding the system under which they are obliged to live repulsive.