![]() ![]() And with it, my personal relationship, whether by action, or by my emotional involvement. And in other situations involving killing. One commentator suggested my offence was so grave I should no longer teach the Buddhadharma. I used the word “glad.” Some people objected to these two things. And that I experienced a lifting of my heart at hearing of his death. I prefaced it with an observation that bin Ladin was a bad man. And with that a small consideration of the ongoing sadness of our human condition. And how in response to the killing of Osama bin Ladin, I shared an observation on social media about our radical interdependence. So, going for the hard thing, going toward the heart of the matter, what about death and especially our relationship with killing? One of the axioms of our Zen way is that everything, including our inner states have consequences. Death and with it, killing is a great conundrum. ![]()
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