Just A Thought ~ SEE WHAT IT IMPLIES

We see now another attempt by nuclearneighbors India and Pakistan to patch up their differences, and not before time, but it will be very difficult if each continues to hold onto its position uncompromisingly. The Indians should know this better than anyone, as they ~ the Hindus among them, at least ~ have the benefit of the concept of reincarnation, which the Pakistanis, as Muslims, do not. This concept should make people more flexible and less dogmatic, but only if they investigate it to see what it implies, not by merely believing it.

If we cling onto the idea of nationality, as we do ~ us against them ~ problems will always result, distrust, fear and hatred continually arise. But if we are willing to open our minds and push back our horizons, and consider that this might not be our one-and-only life, and that, as the concept of reincarnation holds, we have lived many times before and in all probability will live many times again, something will change. We become able to face the possibility that in the next or another life, we might be born as a member of a tribe or nation that at present we abhor, and will look at things in quite a different way. If an Indian might become a Pakistani, a Palestinian an Israeli, an American an Iraqi, and so on, we might pause before acting in aggressive ways. Dare we say it would never happen? Are we so confident it would not? Here is one tool to help us deal with the hatred and violence in the world ~ a much better tool than the belief in a single life on earth and an eternity in either heaven or hell after it, which is actually one of the main causes of conflict ~ the belief that we are somehow chosen, while others are not.