(June 28, 2016 at 9:09 am)Emjay Wrote:(June 28, 2016 at 8:58 am)Alasdair Ham Wrote: People often say "love is blind", but I think hate is what truly blinds people.
Both. Either excessive hope or excessive fear... excessive love or excessive hate.
It's probably not the time or place to say this but I will anyway. One thing Buddhism teaches is to look for the good in the bad and the bad in the good... to keep things grounded and neutral... as an antidote to idealisation or demonisation/devaluation. It's much easier said than done because it goes against human nature but it was perhaps idealisation and demonisation that got us into this mess - the Brexiter's make Britain great again (idealisation) and the big bad EU (devaluation) - and perhaps part of the solution is to try and find the good in the bad that we're left with. Just a thought but as I said, easier said than done.
