If you're a politician, you might want to learn the Buddhist way of negotiation. Restoring communication and bringing back reconciliation is clear and concrete in Buddhism.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action.
In the last twelve years, we have come some distance towards reconciliation and the breaking down of disadvantage. Let us take encouragement from what has been achieved and set our minds and hearts to end the remaining roadblocks.
Buddhism teaches you to embrace change.
We must listen and learn, show humility and seek again to talk for and to people's ambitions and concerns.
The compassionate actions of a Buddha are essential to reforming and revitalizing society.
Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good.
History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations, the skillful use of our communicative capacities to negotiate and resolve differences is the first evidence of human wisdom.
Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.
The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.
Reconciliations are for after the violence has ended.
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