"How do you kill your enemy in a way that puts a stop to violence rather than escalates it?
"One of us is gone, one apparently horrific, terrible, vicious one of us...is gone...I'm regretful for the rest of us who are now left thinking that this is a cause for celebration. It is not. It is a cause for sorrow at our continued inablility to realize that there is no such thing as us and them; that whatever we do to cause harm to one will harm us all.
"When we hate, we cause hate. When we think we have won by vanquishing our enemy, we have lost. In killing Osama bin Laden, 'they' lose because one of their leaders is gone. But we lose too, because we have deepened the causes and conditions that lead to more hatred and its consequences."
"...when you do not produce another force of hatred, the opposing forece collapses." - Chogyam Trungpa
Excerpted from: "Osama bin Laden is Dead One Buddhist's Response" by Susan Piver. Read the entire post here.
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