Is There Injustice In The World?

Yes!

From a Dharma point of view, whatever happens just is, according to our karma – our past actions. This will include actions and reactions from previous incarnations. This concept isn’t easy for everyone to accept, but we can see this in action in our life now. I poke you, so you poke me 😉

However, there is injustice in the world. There are those who callously manipulate situations and those who react. Unfortunately, this is: I poke you, so you poke me, so I can poke you again! Every day we read about injustice; a person in a uniform murders a civilian, protests arise and more killing ensues.

We do have to be aware that blatantly horrific acts are being carried out, often under the guise of being ‘the good of a country’. This doesn’t mean for the good of the people. Why? Because those who think that they own the world want to protect what they think they own – us!

There are more subtle horrific acts as well; fear mongering and pleasure mongering create hope and hatred. The knock-on effect of these can be seen in our every action.

It is a huge experiment on how hard people can be poked without them actually noticing and waking up. Our human nature is to survive; we put up with a situation because we are told it is for the common good. We hear politicians say, “We have to make tough decisions” but those tough decisions do not affect them!

The world is not just, as it is ego driven, but there is still individual kindness.
This is what turning the other cheek is all about; not reacting, not consenting.

This is the best time for spiritual practice.

Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche wrote, in Rainbow Painting:

“During the age of strife, it seems as though people are seldom amiable; rather, they are always trying to outdo one another. This fundamental competitiveness has given rise to the name, “The Age of Strife” but this is exactly the reason that Vajrayana is so applicable to the present era. The stronger and more forceful the disturbing emotions are, the greater the potential for recognising our original wakefulness. In the era of Maitreya, everyone will be loving towards one another and they will not even hear the word ‘Vajrayana’ – there will not be any Vajrayana teachings.

“It is a fact that, at the very moment we are strongly caught up in thought forms or in the surging waves of an emotion – of anger for instance – it is much easier to recognise the naked state of awareness.

“This, of course, is not the case when one has trained in a very tranquil, placid state of meditation, where there are no thoughts or negative emotions. Then, due to what is called ‘the soft pleasure’, it is much more difficult to recognise the true state of non-dual mind.”