I remember that when I was
a little girl, we were instilled the ideology of patriotism at the elementary
school, and at any time we were preparing for fighting with the enemy since we
are in the martial law. Even the thought of Buddhism, it would be regarded as
the violation of the ideology of patriotism. Why?
As I have mentioned, there
is no enemy in the nature of Emptiness. In the body of Emptiness, there is no
object, things, binary opposition, even any ideology. To have the ideology of
patriotism is meant to be loyal to the country, and which is regarded as the
right thought. However, in fact, the ideology of patriotism is to increase the
hatred to the enemy. What so called "the enemy" which is always means
that the person who disagrees with our ideology. So, the ideology of patriotism
is hidden the binary opposition.
Such as ideology of binary
opposition would make people narrow their mind and limit their thought and
creation. In the history, I have found that a lot of people were instigated by
the ideology of patriotism or the other, and were thus killed in the war. A lot
of soldiers were illiteracy, and they might have force and courage, but were
lack of brain. They were easy to be fooled by any ideology. If we go into the
path of Buddha, the war is impossible to be existed, and people could not die
innocently.
Secondly, the ideology of
patriotism is to draw a line in our heart, to differentiate any persons and any
things, which would increase the conflict and argument from person to person,
and would increase the fighting from country to country. So, if human beings
own the intelligence and wisdom enough, the ideology of patriotism or
nationalism should be removed. All people in the world are equal to each other.
It is better to destroy the intangible line of one country and the other
country.
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