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The world where a country can bomb and kill 300 citizens of a neighbouring country, without warning, without any real clear morally acceptable reason, and with total impunity, is obviously sick. It is even gravely ill. If this were a sickness of the body or the mind, we would try to determine its origin, in order to treat it, because if left to run its course, the sickness may continue to spread. We need to get to root causes. That's what I try to do in my thinking, in my meditation. But often I end up just shrugging it off. Surely, if the disease is so endemic, I have been affected by it too, and the disease is surely clouding my judgement. And even if I do succeed in properly identifying the root cause, why should anyone accept my conclusions? Who am I? A nobody. Nevertheless, I would say that if all of us would try to seek out the root causes of this sickness - in the world and maybe in ourselves - this could be a direction that would lead to healing. For me, it is is a question of perception: I think the sickness is to be found in our way of perceiving ourselves and others, and the way we perceive ourselves in relation to the world and to the other. Maybe you will reach an entirely different conclusion. But unless we attempt to figure this out, we will never be able to create a better world, a healthier place for our children. A place where death cannot suddenly rain down from the sky for no satisfactory reason. A great deal depends on our understanding.