From Darkness to Enlightment

The Buddha once said, "Even a theif loves his family."

What remains in the wake of Osama bin Ladens's uncelebrated and unattended burial by water, is the suffering and grief of his widows and children, which allows me to think that somewhere

within this tourtured soul, there must have been at least a molcule of love.

I am in no way, condoning his actions. Rather I am wanting to think that Osama bin Ladin reflected something dark in our world, in order for humanity to wake up to our light. That's a tall and and impossible concept for many people to injest. I know. 

Buddism also teaches about the karma of a people and the country where they are born and live. And that what goes around comes around as we Westerns say to explain the implacable Eastern Religous concept of the deeds of one's past life circling around and showing up again in other incarnations somewhere in the Universe.

About compassion, which is the basis of Buddhism, I offer my condolences to the wives and children who have lost a husband and father. For to put Osama bin Laden outside the context of the human family  as this relates to his private life,  is as if to suggest we ourselves don't exist.

Regarding bin Laden as the orchesrator of the Holocust that consumed the lives of nearly three thousand people at the World Trade Center in New York city,  this year the Memorial to the descesed will rise like Pheonix with cinged wings out of the flames of the past during the unveiling of the Memorial on 9/11/11.

When I look at the archtectual renderings  of the memorial I am uttery astounished by the immesity of this project and the awewome beauty that has come from such pain and grief.

This past week our President Obama gave orders for the take down of Mr. Bin Ladin. The next day his body was intered in the sea. Two days later, our President was in New York City laying a wreath at the foot prints of the WTC memorial site.

It is through our pain and suffering that one achieves enlightment, the Buddha also teaches us. 

                               "Imagine"- John Lennon