In our charade with ourselves we pretend that our war is not really war. We have changed the name of the War Department to the Defense Department and call a whole class of nuclear missiles Peace Keepers!
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About Jack Kornfield
Jack Kornfield was American writer and buddhist teacher. Jack Kornfield is an American psychologist writer and teacher in the Vipassana movement in American Theravada Buddhism. He trained as a Buddhist monk in Thailand, Burma and India, first as a student of the Thai forest master Ajahn Chah and Mahasi Sayadaw of Burma. Read more on Wikipedia →
Themes
- War — Reflections on conflict, peace, and the human cost of war