Imagine if they meditated what a difference it would make!

Just imagine that some of the most impossible cross people you have heard about started to meditate!  I hardly like to mention names but if Mr Assad started or Mr Mugabe perhaps took to a peaceful life, it just wouldn't be possible for them to maintain hostility towards people who they think are different to them.  That's what maintains hostility, just thinking that someone is different to you so you can think about them as an object.  Even intense passion can be based on the idea that someone is desirable and if that idea isn't transcended, the long term outlook for the intense love isn't great.  Perhaps that's why so many marriages hit the rocks, it's not for lack of wanting it to work, it's just that we think we will gain something from the other person.  If you think you aren't going to either lose or gain anything but you might just be able to face things together and help one another, you have a good recipe for life.  And if Mr Assad and Mr Mugabe realised  that everybody in their respective countries could be happy if they worked together, we would have a lot more people able to live a full life.  So if you think you are a bit of a tyrant  but you want to stop being one, try meditation!
Even our three dogs are more peaceful for joining in our meditation. See below, he's not asleep really, he's meditating!