Good morning.
Let me start off by asking you a question.
Are people born evil? (Audience responds
"no.")
I have to talk about it because obviously
we all know what happened. (The context is the 33 deaths on Virginia Tech
Campus last week) All those innocent lives lost. That’s unthinkable;
the degree of shock and the horrendousness is just immeasurable. We
have to talk about it because it happened.
The thing is that it happens not just in
America, but in places like Iraq where America is trying to bring democracy.
Dozens of people, at times hundreds of people die every day. That’s a
tragedy. If you really try to put it out because taking care of
ourselves in it’s self is difficult. You don’t want to think about a problem
that exists in the world where truly people are selfish and dying.
But that’s another issue when it comes to
you and me, when it comes to "I." What happens to "I"? That’s
what’s important, right? Because from that "I" something happens, hopefully
something for the right. And even that is a hope. It’s not a conclusion. It
might be a promise to your self therefore in light of yourself you want to
view it as something of hopefulness.
Sometimes you don’t want to pat yourself
on the back too often. Because if you do that too often without any results,
that matters beyond yourself, right? Beyond "I". Can we stop this
nonsense? Is it possible? If none of us is born evil then how did
these people become so evil? If that is not the epitome of the
definition of evil then I don’t know what is.
You can blame it on psychological stuff.
You can say that young man was demented, but how did he get so demented?
How did he get so corrupted; How did he get so fouled that he can do
something with no remorse whatsoever, even to the point at the end of taking
his own life. I thought that was easier than shooting 32 innocent
people. That is serious stuff.
What happened? What happened? You
developed-nation people understand the importance of diet right? You
have to have a well balanced diet, right? You have to have the right
minerals; you have to have vegetables, and dairy products, proteins, and
whatever, healthy and balanced to keep your body healthy.
What about the mind? You see children
obsessing over certain sugary stuff. You can’t feed them that stuff forever.
Somebody has to be looking after children when they’re growing up, even
physically.
What about mentally? Whose responsibility
is that? Are we supposed to educate children just so they can get a job, and
more and more in modern days you need to be specialized so what ever special
skill it demands to get a decent job in the workforce and whatever the stuff
you need to survive and take care of the business. And it’s there for that
and it ends there.
Where else do you spend time? Hopefully
you spend time in churches right? And how often do you spend time in church?
You spend your waking moments after you turn six years old or so pretty much
outside your house preparing yourself to make a living ultimately. That’s
it. Think about it.
What do you envy? Envy has a negative
connotation doesn’t it? But it can also be positive. Anything bad can be
turned into good; good can be turned into bad, because we have that power.
We have such subjectivity over everything all under creation.
OK You take the envy and what do you envy?
Why are you envious? When you envy something just obsessively its like you
saying I want to eat just sugar, I don’t want to eat anything else. Well
you’re going to get sick very soon OK.
You have to know how to balance this
stuff. And what if you don’t have that available then you’ve got to put
something in your stomach. Right? So you can live. Right? So you have
to know how to do that. People that fail to recognize that aspect of
maintenance, just self maintenance, they loose the point.
Many problems rise from that. Individual,
personal, emotional, characteristical problems arise from that. Things
that are out there, they’re just like things in your diet you need minerals
fruit and vegetables, protein, all that stuff. You need to balance that if
you want a healthy body. Just as with your mind the same goes for that too.
What about the spirit? What sense of love
are you talking about here when you’re talking about a proper diet for the
spirit? What kind of diet will you be chasing after? You should be
able to be in control of everything that you have the potential of being… of
achieving. Even just taking envy for instance, why can’t you envy someone
that you love, some goodness that they possess?
Why does it have to be something that is
so far from you? All this stupid stuff comes because you practice stupid
things; you think in stupid ways; and you practice stupidly. Because that’s
what you think it is and it’s not. It’s not like that.
Like I said last week, always better is in
tomorrow. I feel for those kids... but I guess you have to move on right?
If you want to learn how to live you have to know how to give right? Give
what? What will last? What can you leave behind that will last when you die?
You will not take money with you. You will
not take whatever fame with you. What you take is what you have given to
others. That’s what you take. If you want to envy something things
that can turn people into all sorts of craziness, make sure that there is a
right way of using it. It is not just wrong. We just don’t know how to
use it properly. Don’t blame God. Bad happens because we make
bad right?
And hopefully there is a learning to this
and it doesn’t go in vain American people.
Okay.
Take care.
