"I think the first reason that we should love our enemies" is this: that hate for hate only intensifies the existence of hate and evil in the universe"that goes on ad infinitum. It just never ends. Somewhere somebody must have a little sense "The strong person is the person who can cut off the chain of hate, the chain of evil.
"A second thing that an individual must do in seeking to love his enemy is to discover the element of good in his enemy, and every time you begin to hate that person and think of hating that person, realize that there is some good there and look at those good points which will over-balance the bad points.
"And this simply means this: That within the best of us, there is some evil, and within the worst of us, there is some good. When we come to see this, we take a different attitude toward individuals. The person who hates you most has some good in him; even the nation that hates you most has some good in it; even the race that hates you most has some good in it.
"When you rise to the level of love, of its great beauty and power, you seek only to defeat evil systems. Individuals who happen to be caught up in that system, you love, but you seek to defeat the system.
"--- there is another way. And that is to organize mass non-violent resistance based on the principle of love."
Martin Luther King on the Vietnam War in 1967
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Thich Nhat Hanh
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"I'm Krista Tippett, and this is On Being.
"Thich Nhat Hanh first came to the world's attention in the 1960s, during the war in his native Vietnam. He forsook monastic isolation to care for the victims of that war and to work for reconciliation among all the warring parties. He called this 'engaged Buddhism.'
"He was expelled from post-war Vietnam, because he had refused to take sides even as he worked for peace. He settled in France, and there he founded Plum Village, a Buddhist community, or sangha, that has spawned communities of practice and service around the world. His students called him 'Thay,' the Vietnamese word for teacher. He attracted crowds of thousands when he spoke. Five hundred people of every background and profession attended the retreat where I was to interview him.
"In 1966, he traveled to the U.S. and met with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., helping to persuade Dr. King to speak out against the U.S. War in Vietnam. King went on to nominate Thich Nhat Hanh for a Nobel Peace Prize a year later, calling him an 'apostle of peace and nonviolence.'
Nhat Hanh published over 130 books, including more than 100 in English, which as of January 2019 had sold over five million copies worldwide.
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