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There were many leaders who were assassinated in the world history and some of them to whom I know the most are;
Julius Caesar of Rome
Indian National Leader Mahatma Gandhi
Indian Prime Minister Indra Gandhi
Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi
American President Abraham Lincoln
American President John F. Kennedy
American Civil Right Leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
Burma’s National Leader General Aung San
Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri
Pakistani Presidential Candidate Benazir Bhutto (right today – December 27, 2008 Thursday).
The above leaders were killed because of – may be for their beliefs, for their standings, for their power, for their competitions and so on. I have discussed about this in a leadership program. I was one of the participants in College of DuPage’s Honors Program and Student Leadership Retreat 2007, which was held from August 17th to 19th 2007 at Hickory Ridge Marriott Conference Hotel. There were many sections in the program, such as Name Tags, Think About Living Leadership, Fish Philosophy, Leaders as Negotiators, True Colors, Poetry Jam, Leadership Forum and so on. It was fun, great and priceless.
During one of the discussion sections, I have discussed about leaders and assassinations through ideology of the Buddha. My discussion was, ‘leaders have / had enemies. There were many leaders who were assassinated in the world history. In the way of Buddhism, we believe reincarnation and effectiveness of our actions from life to life, whether, which is good or bad. If I am doing good things with good mind and good heart in this life, I deserve the good results during this life or next life or in another life. At the same time, if I am doing bad things in this life, I may get all those bad things back any time of this life or may be in next life. I deserve it. I have to get it back in any circumstance of life. Therefore, sometimes, even though we are doing good things right now, we may be receiving bad things, which we deserve for the tings we did in past lives. That was my point for my a few minutes discussion.
Any way, today, I watch in TV news (ABC and BBC) about assassination of Benazir Bhutto, former Prime Minister and currently presidential candidate of Pakistan. Then I am thinking about the competitions, dignity, integrity and justice of Human beings. There are many reactions of leaders around the world, such as from the leaders of India, the United States, UN, UK, EU and so on. Main idea of most of them is – this assassination threatens Democracy and Pakistan.
Benazir Bhutto was a Prime Minister of Pakistan for two terms and educated in Oxford and Harvard Universities. She might be a pro-west. In our human beings, we must have the right to be pro or con on someone or something or any system or any idea. In my opinion, these kinds of assassinations not only threaten on democracy and certain country, but also on the values and integrity of our human beings. There are many competitions in our lives of human beings. When we look at the backgrounds of these assassinations, we could probably find that those are the results of competitions or power challenges between Competitors, Countries, Religions, Races and Ethnicities etc. Whatever it is, as we are human beings, we should compete; we should solve our problems by the way of human being.
To win a race, we have to hardly practice, train, try and run as fast as we can. If I can run faster than other runners, I will be the winner. Whoever it is, the fastest runner could be the winner. But when people emphasize, focus and try only to ‘WIN,’ not only practicing for faster running, but some people also practice to thwart or foil to other competitors. Then, the prime value of competition in human being is raped. The winner knows by himself or herself that he or she is not a real winner but a liar or a cheater or a swindler or an untrustworthy winner. I am talking here is not to the direct competitors of those assassinated leaders. I am talking To Whom It May Concern, who might be extremists or who might be enemies of those leaders.
Every human being was born to die. We are just temporarily visiting in this world. The above kinds of tragedies only left the questions for me; such as should we be untrustworthy to win? Should we kill our honest competitors? Then, what does competition mean? What could be the value of that race? What is dignity and integrity of our human being? If it is the way of human being, who or what are we?
Picture:
http://www.harrywalker.com/photos/Bhutto_Benazir.jpg
http://www.visitingdc.com/images/abraham-lincoln-picture.jpg
http://www.bible-history.com/past/images/julius_caesar_statue.jpg
Julius Caesar of Rome
Indian National Leader Mahatma Gandhi
Indian Prime Minister Indra Gandhi
Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi
American President Abraham Lincoln
American President John F. Kennedy
American Civil Right Leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
Burma’s National Leader General Aung San
Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri
Pakistani Presidential Candidate Benazir Bhutto (right today – December 27, 2008 Thursday).
The above leaders were killed because of – may be for their beliefs, for their standings, for their power, for their competitions and so on. I have discussed about this in a leadership program. I was one of the participants in College of DuPage’s Honors Program and Student Leadership Retreat 2007, which was held from August 17th to 19th 2007 at Hickory Ridge Marriott Conference Hotel. There were many sections in the program, such as Name Tags, Think About Living Leadership, Fish Philosophy, Leaders as Negotiators, True Colors, Poetry Jam, Leadership Forum and so on. It was fun, great and priceless.
During one of the discussion sections, I have discussed about leaders and assassinations through ideology of the Buddha. My discussion was, ‘leaders have / had enemies. There were many leaders who were assassinated in the world history. In the way of Buddhism, we believe reincarnation and effectiveness of our actions from life to life, whether, which is good or bad. If I am doing good things with good mind and good heart in this life, I deserve the good results during this life or next life or in another life. At the same time, if I am doing bad things in this life, I may get all those bad things back any time of this life or may be in next life. I deserve it. I have to get it back in any circumstance of life. Therefore, sometimes, even though we are doing good things right now, we may be receiving bad things, which we deserve for the tings we did in past lives. That was my point for my a few minutes discussion.
Any way, today, I watch in TV news (ABC and BBC) about assassination of Benazir Bhutto, former Prime Minister and currently presidential candidate of Pakistan. Then I am thinking about the competitions, dignity, integrity and justice of Human beings. There are many reactions of leaders around the world, such as from the leaders of India, the United States, UN, UK, EU and so on. Main idea of most of them is – this assassination threatens Democracy and Pakistan.
Benazir Bhutto was a Prime Minister of Pakistan for two terms and educated in Oxford and Harvard Universities. She might be a pro-west. In our human beings, we must have the right to be pro or con on someone or something or any system or any idea. In my opinion, these kinds of assassinations not only threaten on democracy and certain country, but also on the values and integrity of our human beings. There are many competitions in our lives of human beings. When we look at the backgrounds of these assassinations, we could probably find that those are the results of competitions or power challenges between Competitors, Countries, Religions, Races and Ethnicities etc. Whatever it is, as we are human beings, we should compete; we should solve our problems by the way of human being.
To win a race, we have to hardly practice, train, try and run as fast as we can. If I can run faster than other runners, I will be the winner. Whoever it is, the fastest runner could be the winner. But when people emphasize, focus and try only to ‘WIN,’ not only practicing for faster running, but some people also practice to thwart or foil to other competitors. Then, the prime value of competition in human being is raped. The winner knows by himself or herself that he or she is not a real winner but a liar or a cheater or a swindler or an untrustworthy winner. I am talking here is not to the direct competitors of those assassinated leaders. I am talking To Whom It May Concern, who might be extremists or who might be enemies of those leaders.
Every human being was born to die. We are just temporarily visiting in this world. The above kinds of tragedies only left the questions for me; such as should we be untrustworthy to win? Should we kill our honest competitors? Then, what does competition mean? What could be the value of that race? What is dignity and integrity of our human being? If it is the way of human being, who or what are we?
Picture:
http://www.harrywalker.com/photos/Bhutto_Benazir.jpg
http://www.visitingdc.com/images/abraham-lincoln-picture.jpg
http://www.bible-history.com/past/images/julius_caesar_statue.jpg
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