While
serving as a land of refuge for the Tibetans it has silently allowed
the Chinese to massacre them. The better part of Gandhian
non-violence has thus been replaced by a general policy of placation
or appeasement.
This does not mean that Hindus should
become self-righteous but that they must both live and express their
Dharma, not use it as an excuse for inaction. Violence is owing to
the ego. It is not the property of only one group or another, and
such egoism is found to some degree in everyone.
Yet that egoism
should be questioned wherever it is. We should not bow down to the
egoism of outside groups, any more than we should we fail to
question it in ourselves or in our own community.
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