Peace and education 2

The peace I have found from this course has enabled me to stay calm amidst situations where once I would have become greatly upset. This can lead to a contentment that reaches others, values and compassion, inner strength, confidence, and openness. Knowing how to properly insert figures on paper, panting and puffing, snuffling and wheezing in the name of 'health', and being taught to put my fingers in specific places on a keyboard that did not enable me to type very easily after having already learned to type quickly from my own finger placings had little benefit if any.

The lessons we are given in school today may be somewhat different from my own, taken in England over twenty years ago, but seem to be just as pointless. They prepare a student to complete tasks they may never need to do, give no inner values or personal understanding to the student, and equip one with a piece of paper 'qualifying' the student post exam in processes of structured learning without ever having taught the student to live their life.

I can see now why His Holiness is so often stressing the need for a non-religious moral code to be created, one that is suited to all of humanity. Although learning of karma through the ACI course is of great benefit and use to me and anyone open to Buddhist teachings, to one opposed to the Buddhist view it would be of no help. The concepts of karma need to be expressed in a multi-faith format in order to be suited to a wider range of human. But even then, certain religions are opposed to the ideas of karma and rebirth, so more than a simple rephrasing of concepts would be needed.