Shams, Sepehr and Amir showed up today but Amir and Sepehr disappear during the hour long meditation.
I was meditating on karuna, compassion. Seeing my own suffering, Shams' suffering, neutral and my ex who I'm in discord with. Then I equalize compassion to all of them, locate the feeling in me and beam it out into the infinite universe.
I'm for humanity, I don't like anyone dying. Iran launches missiles at Israel, and Israel launches missiles at Iran last night. Here's a timeline. The two countries need to learn how to wage peace.
If you really really really look at suffering, you don't want others to have it. And you don't do things to cause it. I'm sure there is justifications for launching missiles. It's just flawed reasoning. There is such a thing as a just war, Fighting against Hitler is now seen as a just war. It's hard to say don't try and fight Hitler, let him keep existing, let him keep on killing the Jews.
Hordes of Jewish families descend on the park on Friday night, while my daughter is playing and some of the teenage Jewish girls swore at my daughter. They called her a blond bitch. My daughter was trying to engage with them, and they wanted a younger kid to go away. I gave them the stink eye and asked my daughter to move away from them. My daughter was very upset by it, but she was also strangely drawn to it.
I don't think impolite behavior from one person ruins the whole people. I love the Jewish people, my stepfather is secular Jewish, I live next to a Jewish neighborhood and I've had a lot of Jewish friends throughout my life, including in Madison Wisconsin where I grew up.
The teenage girls smashed their cups and left the litter on the ground. Monday morning they clean up the park from over the weekend when it's exclusively Jewish families littering up the park.
At my park on time I asked the Rabbi if he would clean up all the cups his camp had littered, and at first he denounced me, and then later he came back to me and apologized, and said he would. He told the teenage kid supposedly watching the kids, but watching their phones, to clean up and they threw about 3 cups away and then went back to scrolling and ignoring the kids.
Ireland just recently recovered from the potato famine, population wise. Jewish people are going to recover from the Holocaust pretty soon, if they haven't already. I knew a woman who had 12 children. Large families lead to overwhelmed parents, and littering neglected children who act out. Can I blame them for seeing a threat to their people?
One time at my mother-in-laws a fellow came up to me in the hall. I realized eventually he was asking me to come in and turn on his air conditioner, I was his Shabbos goy.
I know Iran leaders see America as a threat and enemy, and I know some Americans see Iran as a threat and an enemy, allied with Russia, though right wing people in America favor Russia over Ukraine. My friends are not political, they don't really identify with the current government, but they have to be careful. They live in the country where journalists are often imprisoned (Guardian), artists are imprisoned (source).
I just hope my friends are OK.
To me it's a failure of representation in both Gaza, Israel and Iran. These leaders should be ashamed of themselves.
Some links to discussion of existence in Iran
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