Why no why? Lotsa who—Osama, Saddam, Bush and Blair. Plenty of where—Kabul, Karbala, Kirkuk and Khartoum. Too much what—bombs, missiles, war and death—and also When—9/11, 3/11, each day in Iraq. But oh so little why.
Why is holy, why is wise, why’s the essence of the learned eye. Every lasting solution is the product of why.
How many generations have looked but not seen, listened but not heard, thought but not known. How many doubted, how many knew, how many earnestly sought to be true?
Seems that today when we seek to ask “why?” the answer so sure from the right we decry: “they hate our freedoms--there’s always evil, always good--freedom and peace must be paid for in blood.”
When we doubt and offer alternative why’s we’re branded as traitors who’d rather go hide.
Buddha awareness and silent calm means acceptance of life just as it comes. Yet the Dalai Lama still seeks to be, in a free Tibet, his native country.
Perhaps it is in how we seek to ask why: honestly, peacefully with an ever open eye. Never grasping and holding to preconceived truth, but ever open to the highest truth.
Yes pray for those in leadership roles, that they may act justly on the path paved by why.
Richard F. Dawahare 1/23/05
1 comment:
Richard,
This is one of the best articles that you have written and it is why I enjoy talking to you at Friday's (Beluga, dontchaknow!). One of my favorite sayings is "There are none so blind as those who will not see". I first heard it in a Moody Blues song, but I have researched it and it has been traced to John Heywood in 1546. Anyway....I have opened up my own blog and when I post something meaningful, I will let you know. I have had my own thoughts on the fact that no one is interested in the "why" question and I may reference this article when I publish. I'll talk to you soon, this is Max!
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