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| We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once." |
| - Calvin Coolidge A JK
To me this means that he has given up all judgment, criticisms or complaints about what happens in the world and even "to him". The reason why this is a good thing, in my opinion, is that he is stating that he is accepting the world exactly the way it IS. He is not trying to make the world be the way he wants it to be. In other words, he is accepting reality. I think that is a good definition of sanity - to deal with the world the way that it is. Given this, it is clear that a truly enlightened being would not get angry at reality, and reality is that some people cause suffering. This is not the same as saying that they would do nothing. The enlightened being might comfort or give aid to the victim, they might forgive and try to understand the perpetrator and they may try to make their teachings known to all to help reduce the chance of more suffering in the world. But anger is about not accepting reality and that is not what they would do. A Strawberries (and other fruits) contain malic acid, which can actually whiten teeth A An empire of obedience Polybius was in no doubt that Rome’s stable ‘constitution’ provided an important foundation for its success abroad. But he had experienced the sharp end of Roman warfare, and he also saw Rome as an aggressive power, with imperialist aims to take over the whole world. ‘They made a daring bid,’ he insists at the end of his account of the First Punic War, ‘for universal domination and control – and they succeeded in their purpose.’ Not everyone agreed. There were even some Greeks, he acknowledged, who suggested that Rome’s conquests came about ‘by chance or unintentionally’. Many Romans insisted that their overseas expansion resulted from a series of just wars, in the sense of wars undertaken with the necessary support of the gods, in self-defence or in the defence of allies, who had often solicited Rome’s help. It was not aggression at all. |
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