A Plank Lodged Within Our Third Eye.

So it was announced that Osama Bin Laden is dead. This announcement was met with many people celebrating murder as an answer to murder. This celebration in the U.S. and other countries is understood by me to be some sense of joy and support of the bloodshed in the Middle East. We should not be so quick to scream about a speck of saw dust in the eyes of others when we have a plank within our own.

I can see how people blind with rage that have not noticed several things about the attack on the U.S. could believe there is some sense justice in this announcement. However, this is missing the point in the bigger picture that if ignored ...will continue to unwind in a spiral of bloodlust and destruction of human life.

Look at the civilian casualties in the Middle East in the past 10 years alone, the U.S. military has killed hundreds of thousands civilians who have families that begin to feel the same human emotions that families of 3,000 victims here felt at the end of 2001. That's far more than 30 times more people with less to lose that would very likely feel the same blind rage against the U.S. because of the U.S. military's boots stomping out human life across the Middle East.

There is no sense of justice in the blind slaughter of life. I repeat myself too often when I say that I view all life on Earth and across the universe as one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. If someone kills or harms another, it is only causing harm to their self, and to cause harm to those that caused harm is just doing the same exact thing. To be blind with rage and bloodlust is no justification for murder, because it will always feed itself and the loop will never close. We will learn to forsake violence if we are to evolve. We will learn to read deeper into events if we are to evolve.

"I will mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that."

-Martin Luther King Jr.

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."

-Mahatma Gandhi