ABSTRACT

To create world peace, we must eradicate delusion, anger, and desire. That's it. What more is there to say?

The world we inhabit is the world we prepare for ourselves. The universe is held together by the collective karma of the beings who inhabit it. Therefore, the kind of world that we experience is the result of the seeds of all the actions (karma) of body, speech, and mind that we have created in the past. If we continually create violence through unskillful actions of body, speech, and mind, we cannot expect there to be peace. It is not enough to draft a proposal that says, "From now on, we are going to hold hands and be peaceful," because we have already created the causes for a very aggressive society.