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<\/a> <\/p>“TREAT EACH HUMAN FRIEND BY THINKING THAT:<\/p>\n
\u2022 He’s our friend who was born to be old, become ill, and die, together with us.
\n\u2022 He’s our friend swimming around in the changing cycles with us.
\n\u2022 He’s under the power of defilements like us, hence sometimes he errs.
\n\u2022 He also has lust, hatred, and delusion, no less than we.
\n\u2022 He therefore errs sometimes, like us.
\n\u2022 He neither knows why he was born nor knows nibb\u0101na, just the same as us.
\n\u2022 He is stupid in some things like we used to be.
\n\u2022 He does some things accordingly to his own likes, the same as we used to do.
\n\u2022 He also wants to be good, as well as we who want even more to be good \u2014 outstanding \u2014 famous.
\n\u2022 He often takes much and much more from others whenever he has a chance, just like us.
\n\u2022 He has the right to be madly good, drunkenly good, deludedly good, and drowning in good, just like us.
\n\u2022 He is an ordinary man attached to many things, just like us.
\n\u2022 He does not have the duty to suffer or die for us.
\n\u2022 He is our friend of the same nation and religion.
\n\u2022 He does things impetuously and abruptly just as we do.
\n\u2022 He has the duty to be responsible for his own family, not for ours.
\n\u2022 He has the right to his own tastes and preferences.
\n\u2022 He has the right to choose anything (even a religion) for his own satisfaction.
\n\u2022 He has a right to share equally with us the public property.
\n\u2022 He has the right to be neurotic or mad as well as we.
\n\u2022 He has the right to ask for help and sympathy from us.
\n\u2022 He has the right to be forgiven by us according to the circumstances.
\n\u2022 He has the right to be socialist or libertarian in accordance with his own disposition.
\n\u2022 He has the right to be selfish before thinking of others.
\n\u2022 He has the human right, equal to us, to be in this world.
\nIf we think in these ways, no conflicts will occur.<\/p>\n
Buddhad\u0101sa Indapa\u00f1\u00f1o
\nMokkhabal\u0101r\u0101ma, Chaiya
\n22 May, 2531<\/p>\n
(With confidence in Buddhadasa Bhikku’s great compassion and humanity, a Thai Buddhist has taken his permission for granted and translated the above message into English, with kind help from an American bhikku.)
\n26 June, 2536”<\/h6>\n