8 Drive All Blames into One

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’d like to talk a bitabout another slogan,
“Drive all blames into one.” When we say, as in a
previous slogan, “When the world is filled with evil,”
we mean, “When the world is filled with the results
of ego clinging.” When the world is filled with ego
clinging or with attachment to a particular outcome,
there is a lot of pain. But these painful situations
can be transformed into the path of bodhi. One of
the ways to do that is to drive all blames into one. To
see how this works, let’s look at the result of blam-
ing others.
I had someone buy me the New York Timeson
Sunday so I could look at the result of people blam-
ing others. In Yugoslavia, there’s a very painful situa-
tion. The Croats and the Serbs are murdering each
other, raping each other, killing children and old
people. If you asked someone on either side what
they wanted, they would say they just want to be
happy. The Serbs just want to be happy. They see the
others as enemies and they think the only way to be
happy is to eradicate the source of their misery. We
all think this way. And then if you talked to the other
side, they would say that they want the same thing.

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