The Teacher Warns

The Teacher warned, “Woe to you, Moral Majority, you hypocrites. You are like marble-clad towers, which appear beautiful on the outside, but inside are full of greed, egoism, power and every kind of human blindness. Even so, on the outside you appear righteous, but inside you are filled with hypocrisy and evildoing. The Teacher shook his head: Woe to you, bankers, politicians, men of vanity, women of wealth, you hypocrites. You build the monuments to great people and adorn the memorials of the good, and yet you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our forefathers, we would not have joined them in shedding the blood of the great, the good, the decent and the holy’. Thus you bear witness against yourselves that you are the children of those who murdered the wise and the compassionate, exemplary people, those walking with the Divine. In blindness and selfishness you shall continue, without wisdom, without compassion, the message of goodness cannot warm your frozen hearts.” adapted from Mt. 23:27-32

Two Commandments

When the jealous men, the self-righteous men, the angry men, the bitter men, when they heard that the Teacher had silenced the arrogant men with his teachings, they gathered together, and one of them, a scholar of the Dhamma, tested him by asking, “Teacher, which word in the Law is the greatest?” He said to him, “You shall love I Am Who Is, Creator, All, One, Life, Light, Grace, Mercy, God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first necessity. The second word is very similar: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. The Dhamma and all those on the Path depend on these two truths.” Adapted from Mt. 22:34-40