2019.8.6 SNS掲載
「本当の平和はいつでも可能です。でも大きな困難の時は特に、
平和や非暴力を、言いなりになったり、
本当は、平和や非暴力を実践することは、
平和を実践するとは、たとえ誤解や争いの場であったとしても、
特に戦時に平和を実践することは、勇気が必要とされます。
私達の誰もが非暴力を実践できます。
私達の心はまるで、あらゆる種を内包する畑さながらです: 理解の種、許しの種、気づきの種、あるいは無知や恐怖、
どんな瞬間でも、私達は暴力か慈悲かのいずれかで行動しており、
私達の中で日に何度も、怒りや暴力、恐怖の種が水を得ると、
でも私達に、日々自分自身の愛や慈悲、
怒りや暴力、恐怖の種が自分自身の中で水を得るとき、
でも私達が慈悲の種を培えば、
この事を理解したら、
—ティク・ナット・ハン
(翻訳・文責/西田佳奈子)
“TRUE PEACE IS always possible. Yet it requires strength and practice, particularly in times of great difficulty. To some, peace and nonviolence are synonymous with passivity and weakness. In truth, practicing peace and nonviolence is far from passive. To practice peace, to make peace alive in us, is to actively cultivate understanding, love, and compassion, even in the face of misperception and conflict. Practicing peace, especially in times of war, requires courage. All of us can practice nonviolence. We begin by recognizing that, in the depths of our consciousness, we have both the seeds of compassion and the seeds of violence. We become aware that our mind is like a garden that contains all kinds of seeds: seeds of understanding, seeds of forgiveness, seeds of mindfulness, and also seeds of ignorance, fear, and hatred. We realize that, at any given moment, we can behave with either violence or compassion, depending on the strength of these seeds within us. When the seeds of anger, violence, and fear are watered in us several times a day, they will grow stronger. Then we are unable to be happy, unable to accept ourselves; we suffer and we make those around us suffer. Yet when we know how to cultivate the seeds of love, compassion, and understanding in us every day, those seeds will become stronger, and the seeds of violence and hatred will become weaker and weaker. We know that if we water the seeds of anger, violence, and fear in us, we will lose our peace and our stability. We will suffer and we will make those around us suffer. But if we cultivate the seeds of compassion, we nourish peace within us and around us. With this understanding, we are already on the path of creating peace.”
-Thich Nhat Hanh