[KlaraNovikoffa]

Things don't have to be the way we want for us to make peace with them.

I like this one... sounds very Zen to me. And this is a first step toward acceptance. To accept, I feel, has nothing to do to alow such things as racism and others to happen... to accept, in buddhist terms, is a result of the practice of compasion, a right view and a dispasionate attitude.

Of course the happening of those things can make you angry or sad... and you have to act with power and spirit, but aftre knowing about your anger or sadness you return to a dispasionate attitude so that what ever you can do can be done with acceptance.

I know how difficult can be this.

In my personal experience I have to witness the roughness of jailers against the female inmantes. I have to keep a dispasionate attitude and understand both parts. Both are suffering. Both are conffused and blind and both need an aid to awake to their suffering.

Again, this is very hard.