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Practicing peace in the face of war.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

On March 11, 2009, I wrote about strength through fearlessness of death.  Of similar importance to success in life and trial practice is practicing peace even when surrounded by war. In that regard, recently I picked up Pema Chodron's Practicing Peace in Times of War. As it turns out, the book goes well beyond conventional war and guerrilla war, to in order to consider the good and bad karma we give each day. Pema Chodron advises to focus not on escaping one's present circumstances in the search for more happiness, but to focus on working through problem rather than avoiding the problems.  Practicing Peace includes discussion of death row inmate Jarvis Jay Masters, who authored the book Finding Freedom while on death row. Practicing Peace mentions how Masters answered an inmate's question about whether he disliked any of the prison guards by answering that he was concerned that if he acted out in that fashion, the risk would have increased that the prison guard would have taken it out against his child at home...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on March 15, 2009 (boomark / email).