When We Don't Have Love...

I received this from my good friend, Vietnamese buddy, Hieu "Peter" Do .
He wrote this after doing some meditating. The recent events at Virginia Tech University prompted this.
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By Peter Hieu Do
hivado38@hotmail.com


When we don't have love, we can kill people like a Cho Seung-Hui in Virginia Tech University, where 32 students and staff members died innocently.

When we don't have love we can blow up buildings to kill thousands of men and women doing their daily business. Example, Twin Tower on 9, 11th.

When we don't have love we force people to leave their houses, to empty the cities and to rush towards wild forests in order to cultivate by their own hands. This operation of Pol Pot has killed almost two million Cambodians.

When we don't have real love we invade countries in the name of our own judgment in stead of other's : the United Nations, the Pope, allied Governments. That happened before, now and maybe in the future if we don't have our own decision to understand and to love our Enemies.

Sometimes we were so vindicateful that God sends us few signs to warn us : an earthquake, a tsunami, a volcanic eruption, a storm, a wild fire... People then understand : they gather together to share their love to each other. But this kind of love was just a social behevior, not an individual and a self controled willingness of real love.

Last tsunami in Indonesia, yesterday massacre in Virginia Tech School that let 33 killed, were occasions for people to show comprehension, helps, courageous acts, candlelight prayers, love-like hugs, ... It's heartbroken to see.

But this happened only when a disaster comes ! It forces people to love each other for just a few days !

After that, they restart to criticize each other, to fight each other, to kill each other, to invade suspected countries, again and again.

To have real love, real forgiveness, real peace, EVERYONE must possess in his own heart the real willingness to try, to do the first step of mutual comprehension, mutual visit, mutual share of foods, of material helps, of spiritual consolations, prayers. Then, the miracle will happen.

So, instead to invade peace life of people, you offer them first your smiles, you open first the conversation with them, you invite them first to come to visit you, to give them first some present they keep as souvenir of your comprehensive and warm attitude.

That the way you can change a Sadam Hussein, a Bin Laden, a Cho Seung-Hui ... in angels before they cause trouble to you !

Now, they all have hit you. Are you going to revenge on other innocent people ? It's very much too late !!! It's the worse thing you are doing.

Now, if you try to love them : they will vomit right on your face ! Why ? Because you didn't listen to what Jesus have said to you :

** "If someone strike you on one side of your face, extend the other so he can strike again".

** "How many times have I to forvive my friends, seven times a day ?" asked Peter. Jesus answered : "No, seventy-seven times seven !"

So, you must be ready to forget the mistakes done by your neighbor and ready to forgive him as many times as he needed.

That's the force of Love.

And there is no greater Love than to die for people we love. Jesus died for our sins, beacause He loved us. And his Death saves us.
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
2. EXAMPLES OF INTERACTION BETWEEN PEACE & LOVE

It's difficult to talk about peace to a soldier who receive order to kill, to a woman who is angry with her husband, to a boy whose textbook was destroyed by his comrade few minutes before...

It's also harder to talk about forgiveness in these cases.

Because they don't have any notion, any education about love, the origine and the principle of forgiveness and of peace.

So LOVE is the origine of the following chain reaction : forgiveness, peace.
Without love, no forgiveness.
No forgiveness, no peace.

If Cain loved Abel, he didn't kill him.
If Hitler loved the Jews, there weren't concentration camps.
If Americans and Japanese loved each other there weren't atomique bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
If Sadam Hussein loved his Kurds and his Shiites there weren't bad consequences for him and his family.

We can have a multitude of desastrous cases resulting from the absence of love in the World.

But where is love ?
Where can we find it ?

It is in your heart.
Love must start from you first. You must begin to create the first choc of love on your wife, your children, your neighbors, your enemies... before you can hope to receive any contre-action of your starting love.

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1.Interaction between Action and Reaction

A hand hitting a wall feels pain from it, more or less according to the force applied.

I moral issues, we face the same way : if you are kind to people, people will return you kindness; if you are rough to them, they will return you angriness and possibly hatred and maybe violence.

How about Love ?

Love is the origine of all good human behavior.

Love gives happiness, forgiveness, sacrifice, heroism and life !

The least thing Love can give is Peace...

The World doesn't have this minimum of Love and Peace !!!

You want to give to people a beautiful democratic life, and you don't have any sense of Love, of Peace, how could you succeed ? If you force the people to live demrocratically like you they will hit you by a contre-force.

This is a fundamental and of course, universal priciple of Action-Reaction .

The force that you exercise on people is called "war". Suppose you have won the war and you have peace, this peace is short, just enough the time for your enemies to prepare for you another war ! And if you have lost the war you create hatred from your countrymen.

Only one alternative you could choose : win your enemies by Love. Starting from you. Starting from your staff, from your contrymen, from your whole country.

When you and your countrymen love each other, people living around will imitate your example and you don't need to go in war : you have won it.

By Peter Hieu Do
hivado38@hotmail.com