| Master Says
War Is Never a Solution This is wasting human resource also. These soldiers are the most brilliant generation of our time! They're there to pass down better DNA for the new generation. They're not to go there; they're not born to die. I don't care if it's to die a hero or die a what; it's the same. It's a waste of resource! Do you know how much money it costs to grow a man like that? At least a million dollars until he grows into maturity. Growing men is not like growing trees: it's not cheap. And he has so much love from the family, so much friendship from companions, so much teaching from the teacher and the school - so much affection going on around him. He's not just 'nobody' - he is somebody. He has family; he might even be married and have children already. But he is forced to go out there and shoot someone he doesn't even have any enmity with. Isn't that ridiculous? This is crazy, and we live in it! My God, what kind of the world is this? It's about time they stop all this - just stop it! We cannot tolerate this. It's incredible that humans can kill humans! Even animals don't do that. They might kill one for some reason, but they don't go out and kill a whole mass like that. For the sake of whatever, I don't care. I don't care who is right, who is wrong; it's all wrong. For example, even now, I read in the media or saw on television that the number of deaths of American soldiers is exceeding the number of victims from 9-11. And that's not counting the other people: the women and the children, the victims of war, the innocent bystanders. So war is never a solution. The more war, the more death; the more death, the more enemies; the more enemies, the more war, and so on. It's a vicious circle, and there is no end to it. So we just have to stop. We just have to shake hands and forgive each other and then let's go on with our lives, because there are so many pressing matters now. With all the money that's spent on war, can you imagine? Africa would become like Europe if they used all that money on Africa, on one continent alone. And with all the money that's still going into the war, we could build space ships. We could have more time, more energy and recruit more talent. Instead of all these young men dying, they would become living bodies of the future, building houses for the needy.
Let There Be Soldiers of Peace If all the soldiers changed their jobs, we'd have soldiers of peace: buildings soldiers who bring medicine to the sick and build homes for the homeless. They are able-bodied, intelligent, strong and handsome. They are beautiful beings; it is a waste that that they go there and just die like that. Just one bullet like this. (Master gestures to show the small size of a bullet) Can you imagine? It can go anywhere from anywhere and kill one handsome, beautiful, aspiring, pure, energetic, young human being - just like that. Can you imagine? And it costs millions of dollars even, to raise him, and so much love from the family and friends so that he grows up like that. We cannot teach him hatred when he grows out of love. You cannot change that into hatred; this is not right. You should continue to nurture the love that he has in him, the trust that he has with his family and friends, and with the nation that he's born into. You cannot change that love into hatred and tell a young man who has been loved all his life until now, to come out and turn into a hateful person - and then use a gun to kill another person who has also grown out from the love of a mother and father somewhere, and who has somehow has been nourished and nurtured all this time like a beautiful flower in the garden with all love and care, attention and hope for the future. And then - boom, just like that - with one bullet, finished. Such a beautiful dream is gone, collapsed. How many more generations until we can cultivate many young beautiful men like that? They are at their prime, and they are so inspired by heroism. We cannot use that to turn it into hatred for any reason at all, because it is wrong; it's wrong. You who have children, you know that! You nurture your children up, not to just to die like that. Can you imagine all these mothers, all the fathers and all the loved ones, all his friends, even his neighbors - it's terrible! It's time we have to stop all this nonsense. Anyone with intelligence cannot tolerate this, cannot continue to support this kind of world, can we? (Audience: No) One doesn't have to be a Quan Yin practitioner or a Zen monk to understand this. It's just common for a human being to have this knowledge, this understanding that humans are born to live.
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