Originally posted by Borsuk
I truly believe that Buddhism can be a force for revolutionary change in this world as this is mastered ... eliminating much violence and suffering from our planet. I look forward to a day when science finds a way to make this revelation available to the masses. The violent individual is suffering inside, just in this way.
I might say that alcoholism and such (other addictions) likely have a physiological component too beyond a person's control. There have been a couple of great Zen teachers who have had to try AA (Maezumi Roshi is an example and often spoke about it, and Daido Loori could not quit smoking for years ... and now has terrible lung problems). We will be discussing this shortly, in our Precepts study, next week.
Gassho, J
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