Friends, this is the talk I gave last week presented here edited by Wisdom Quarterly:
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The War of Opinions
Should I write DC a strongly-worded letter?
When we are belligerent and violent, there are always two wars happening simultaneously, the War of Bombs and the War of Opinions.
The War of Bombs requires the War of Opinions as its fuel. If we end the War of Opinions, we simultaneously end the War of Bombs.
Is this what John Lennon and Yoko Ono meant?
We are all responsible for the War of Opinions, so we can end it at any time. The way we end the War of Opinions is by thinking then saying this: "Whatever opinion you hold, I have compassion for you, and whatever opinion I hold, I have compassion for myself."
If we choose these mental positions, we will never have to agree with each other to see the end of belligerence, violence, war, disputes, arguments, and doing harm.
The true cause of violence is not disagreement; it is how we think about each other and feel about each other when we disagree with each other.
Violence can only happen if it is acceptable for us to withhold compassion from those with whom we disagree. This is the cause of war.
Our differences of opinion do not cause violence. What causes violence is that we are willing to withhold compassion from others, any others, because of their opinions.
There is only one reason to withhold compassion from anyone: to actively build more violence on this planet. That's what our withheld compassion does.
If we are trying to accomplish something other than that by withholding compassion, then we are using the wrong tool. If we want to build peace, the tool that will build it is compassion-for-all.
The trouble with these times [is that they aren't a-changin' enough] is that many are trying to build peace by withholding compassion from those who disagree with them. That action builds war. So they are trying to build peace with that which only builds war.
That is like saying, "I'd like to build a house to sleep in, a good strong dwelling, so I'm going to build it out of water." [What do we think we are, fish, mermaids, aquatic plants?]
Water is useful for many things, but we can't cut it into blocks and build shelters with it. [What if we freeze it first? Igloo ice, sure, but this is water we're talking about, not permafrost ice in the arctic.]
Our misunderstandings are so basic to our belief system that we do not see that we are trying to build a house with something we cannot build a house with. That's how elemental our misunderstandings are. But that's also how powerful our opportunities are.
All we need to do is say, "Now that I can see that I've been trying to build a house with blocks of water, let me try again, but with blocks of wood, and see what happens." Voila: a beautiful, solid house.
A house made of water would not be nearly so nice or durable...or livable at all.
Not by hatred but by...this is an eternal law.
And so it is with peace. We can say, "Let me try using compassion-for-all to build peace, and see if that works any better than withholding compassion." And it will work every time. That is an eternal and universal law.
One can't build walls with wet fluid water; one can't build true and lasting peace with hatred of the people who disagree with us.
Our hatred builds something: It builds more of the Era of Belligerence.
It does not build peace in the world. It also does not build peace for us personally — in our day-to-day experience, our family and circle of friends, our workplace and our minds/hearts.
What builds peace for us, in our personal experience, is to say this: "I disagree with that point of view yet still have compassion for the person who holds it."
That builds the kind of deep peace that makes it easier for us to do everything we have to do throughout the day. It makes it easier to be a parent, easier to be a friend, easier to be a whatever.
A war brings these forces to our attention, but they are always at play, in smaller ways, within our lives. Disagreements break out in the home and the workplace. And we always make more peace for ourselves when we feel and think this:
"I disagree with the way my boss (spouse, child, friend, whoever) sees this situation. Still, I hold deep compassion for this person."
Similarly, the fire of war requires certain conditions to ignite and burn and grow.
Remove the War of Opinions and, no matter how many lit matches are thrown onto the fire of war, it will not ignite.
Compassion-for-all is like soaking fuel used in the fire of war. No matter how many flames are dropped on wet wood, it won't catch on fire. Our compassion-for-all ends this war and every war.
I serve my king with no question, Sir. - Good boy
When our compassion ends nowhere, there will be peace on earth. When our compassion goes everywhere, there is no ready fuel for war.
What will happen when we start to pair compassion-for-all with whatever opinion (view) we hold?
What will happen is that we will spend more time in our Peace Mind, which is the higher portion of our consciousness. And when we do this, we'll see new solutions—solutions that already exist, except that we cannot see them yet because they can only be seen from the more loving portion of consciousness.
When we have compassion for others, we free them from our hatred, vitriol, animosity, belligerence, so they visit their Peace Minds more often, too.
Republican gals love soldiers who kill for God.
And when we are all in our Peace Minds, new solutions will be so easy to see that we almost won't be able to comprehend how we ever stayed at war or disagreeing for so long.
Solutions to our problems already exist. Whether we can see them yet depends on our perspective. Where are we placing conscious attention in our own consciousness? Is it our Peace Mind?
It's not that this conflict, or any conflict, is based on an unsolvable problem. It's that we cannot yet see a solution that will resolve this issue from our current perspective.
Move our perspective, and the preexisting solution becomes apparent.
What's the one thing we can do to serve the world? We can learn to transition our own perspective upwards so we can see more solutions and bring more innovations to humanity.
What's another thing we can do? We can pair compassion with everything we think and feel. Compassion can be added to any thought, like this:
"I greatly disagree with what that leader has done, and I have compassion for everyone who lives in that country, even for the leader herself," or "I think that's a terrible thing to do, and I have compassion for the person who has done it." Just add one in.
No consensus of opinion needs to be reached to end the War of Opinions. We can end war without a single opinion ever changing.
We end it by adding our compassion-for-everyone to any opinion we have.
That ends the war, because now it's not a War of Opinions that we're seated within—it's simply a landscape of opinions that are allowed to exist.
It's not a War of Opinions when there is compassion-for-all present. Now it's a community of unique human individuals who compassionately respect each other. We came here to be unique.
We did not come here to create a consensus of opinion. We came here to be in a vibrant (lively and diverse) community of original thinkers, coexisting, more than tolerating but appreciating differences.
Peace Class, free, Wednesdays on Zoom
We came here to learn how to do that in peace.
What makes that possible is this phrase: Regardless of how we see things, we have compassion for one another. That choice-of-thought builds the kind of peace we came here to build.
(The Jimmy Dore Show) Tibetan Buddhism's Dalai Lama, with its tantric sex and Vajrayana hocus pocus, possible cannibal Wim Hof, and horrible hypocrite Deepak Chopra's scandalousEpstein Files appearances with Mikki Willis (producer of Plandemic)
Dalai Lama defended over child tongue-sucking remark A top Tibetan leader has tried to defend the Dalai Lama over video evidence that shows him asking a little boy child to suck his tongue, French kiss style. Penpa Tsering, head of Tibet's government-in-exile, has called the Tibetan spiritual leader in exile's actions "innocent" and said it demonstrated his "affectionate behavior [toward little boys in private]." The video sparked outrage after it went viral on social media, with users calling his actions [sexually] inappropriate [for a heterosexual temporal and spiritual leader of a powerful Tibetan Buddhist sect called the Yellow Hats. After all, pederasty is not homosexuality. - It is! - Is it? But it's okay when powerful leaders like Trump or Epstein or Chopra do it, isn't it? - No, why would that make it okay?]. More
What is the damning evidence against this lama?
Hey, Joanie, want to come to a nice island with me where we can be alone? *Wink-wink*
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Dolly, you should be a politician. - I am, Georgie
A very trustworthy source, working as biographer Michael Wolff for Jeffrey Epstein, claims he saw the 14th Dalai Lama at Epstein's New York apartment.
In the movie Unmistaken Child are shown scenes indicative of pederasty or systematic homosexual indoctrination with no fear that they will be misconstrued as anything more than commonplace horseplay, no matter how they might violate the historical Buddha's Monastic Disciplinary Code (Vinaya). Perhaps Tibetan Vajrayana welcomes or tolerates monastic sodomy?
He does not mind touching women (as he was famously photographed with his arm around the American Zen Buddhist nun Roshi Joan Halifax (upaya.org), in direct violation of cultural custom and specific Monastic Disciplinary Code rules, which may have been altered or updated in Vajrayana to accommodate monastic sex with males or females, such as legendary "tantric" practices between adepts and tantrikas acting as a kind of "temple prostitute."
Do you like to surround yourself with pretty young girls, Dalai Lama? Take any island tours?
You were CIA director and now they made you president of the US? Good, George, good!
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It seems the former temporal and spiritual leader (pope-king) of the Yellow Hat sect of Tibet makes his own rules and is called "his holiness" because he is above suspicion, while conducting secret business that would seem to anyone from outside a direct violation of the spirit and letter of monastic law.
Most damning of all is the 14th Dalai Lama's long association with the CIA (the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency). Liberals scoff and dismiss such claims out of hand...until they are shown the documentation and publicly available evidence from the Los Angeles Times dated (or back-dated) to the 1990s, as if everyone has always known he colluded and was a paid asset of The Company. Then, like paid apologists, they scramble to make excuses for him.
"But His Holiness the Dalai Lama would never knowingly take money from such an evil organization," they say in one breath then, seeing the evidence, follow up with, "Well, so what if he took money [and weapons, and military training, and advisors, and connections, and favors in return for favors] from the CIA? That doesn't prove anything."
He accepted weapons and military training to kill Chinese from the CIA, through his brother and training in Colorado, USA.
He has enjoyed very warm relations with many U.S. war criminals in the White House, particularly the Bush Dynasty, who are connected to 9/11, Nazis (through Prescott Bush), financial misdeeds (through The Carlyle Group and other networks), and has served as a pawn for U.S. interests in its cold war with communist-capitalist China -- and former CIA Director George H. Bush, with his close personal connection to the artist and second worst president in the history of the USA, George W. Bush.
It is almost certainly to call the Dalai Lama a CIA "agent" because he is a CIA "asset," doing what he is told as someone on their payroll.
Tibet's historic affiliation with Nazi Germany probably does not enter into the picture.
It also does not help his case that he made those unfortunate pro-gun and pro-killing remarks, as if Zionism and "good genocide" in and for the "State of Israel," which is not a state, had really made an impact on him from lending ear to its arguments so much.
You support our Zionist cause, right? - If CIA say
Rubbing elbows with the powerful elites of the world -- the moneychangers, Zionists, world bankers, military arms manufacturers, funders, intel agencies, and war profiteers -- would anyone be surprised that his humbleness the Dalai Lama would brunch with Epstein, hug Maxwell, be funded by the CIA, be promoted by Zionists, American Jews of all stripes, the U.S. mainstream media and all for reasons no ordinary American can fathom, as demonstrated by John Oliver on This Week Tonight (HBO).
To be clear, we are not saying HHDL did meet Epstein, visit island, have sex with boys, engage in murder (through contracting with the CIA and other intel agencies like the Mossad), sanction killing, accept blood money, or go to Jeffrey Epstein's NY apartment. What we are saying is that it wouldn't surprise us if comes out that he absolutely did all of this and more, maybe exchanging urine drinks or partaking of Bon-style cannibalism. This kindly world figure, as nice as he seems to all of us, is after all a "pope" and was for a long time the head monarch of Potala Palace at the imperial seat of the Tibetan Empire in the Himalayas in Lhasa. He is not, by his own admission, enlightened. And not everyone believes he is any kind of willful "reincarnation" of Chenrézik (Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva).
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