In a world that breeds contempt how do you bring peace?

Answer 1

By loving others unconditionally, this gradually dissolves the anger, contempt, and the hatred in others, and brings us peace of mind. "Please Patiently read the rest of the answer." Thanks.

*What in the world is the difference between loving a person, and being attached to them? Love is the sincere wish, for others to be happy for others and free from suffering. Having realistically realized other’s kindness, as well as their faults, Love is Always focused on the other person’s welfare. We have no ulterior intensions or motives to fulfill our own self-interests; or to fulfill our own desires, we love others, all people, simply because they exist. Attachment, on the other hand, exaggerates others’ good qualities, and makes us crave to be with them. When we’re with them, we are happy, but when we’re separated from them, we’re miserable. Attachments are always linked with expectations of what others should be, or what they should do for us. Is love, as it is understood in most societies, really love OR attachment ? Let us examine this a little more. Generally speaking, we are attracted {drawn to) people because they have qualities we value, or because they help us in some way. If we carefully observe, through introspection, our own thought processes we’ll notice that we very often look for specific qualities in others. Some of these qualities we are drawn to are qualities within our parents, or qualities which society values.
We examine someone’s looks, education, social status, financial status, and so forth. This is how Most of us decide on whether or not the person holds any true value, or not. In addition, we judge people as worthwhile according to how they relate to us. If they praise us, encourage us, help us, if they listen to what we have to say, if they make us feel secure, if they take care of us when were sick, unhappy or depressed, we consider them good, or sometimes righteous people, and these are the people we more drawn to, whom we are most likely attracted to, and the people we choose to be around with.
In all honesty, this is very biased, for we are judging them, only in terms of how they relate to us, as if we are the most important person in the world & thinking the world revolves around us! After we’ve judged certain people to be good for us, whenever we see them, it appears to us as if goodness is radiating out from within them, but as we are more mindfully aware, we realize that we have projected this goodness on to them.
Desiring to be the people who make us feel good, we become emotional yo-yo’s, when we’re with these people, we’re up, but when we’re not with them, we’re down. Furthermore, we form fixed concepts of what our relationships with these people will be, and thus have expectations of them. “When they do not live up to our expectations of them, we’re unhappy, disappointed or may even become angry. We want them to change so that they will match what we think they are. But our projections and expectations come from our own minds, not from other people. Our problems arise not because others aren’t who we thought they were, but because we mistakenly thought they were something they were not. We often use a type of Checklist also. Checklist: “I Love You IF ___________ !” This Love is Conditional and what we call love, is most often attachment. It is actually an attitude which overestimates the qualities of another person.
’Then we cling tightly to that person, thinking our peace and happiness depends on that person. We even often blame that person for our unhappiness.’ Love, on the other hand, is a very patient, calm, optimistic and relaxed attitude. We want others to be free from suffering and to be happy simply because they exist. While attachments are uncontrolled, and too emotionally sentimental, Love is Patient, powerful, and controlled(disciplined). Attachment obscures our judgment {our ability to make sound, wise decisions), and we become impatient, angry, and impartial – helping our dear ones, and those who do us no harm. Love clarifies our mind, & we access a situation by thinking of the greatest good for everyone. Attachment is based on selfishness, while love is founded on valuing, & cherishing others, even those who do not look very appealing to us. Love always looks beyond all the superficial appearances and dwells on the fact that they are just like us: they want peace of mind, happiness, and wish to avoid suffering. If we see unattractive, or unintelligent people we most often feel repulsed, because our selfish minds want to find attractive, intelligent, and talented people. On the other hand, Love never evaluates others by theses superficial standards and looks much deeper into the person. Love recognizes that regardless of the others appearances, they’re experiences are they same as ours: they want inner mental peace, happiness, and wish to be from suffering. When we’re attached, we’re not mentally, emotionally, & spiritually free. For we overly depend on, and cling to another person, to fulfill our emotional, mental, and spiritual needs. We fear losing the person, fearing that we’d be incomplete without them.” This does Not mean that we should suppress all our emotional needs, or become aloof, and totally independent, for that too would not solve the problem. We must simply realize our unrealistic needs and slowly, gently and patiently – seek to eliminate them. If we try to suppress them, pretending they do not exist, we become insecure, anxious, or possibly depressed. In this case, we do our best to fulfill our needs, while simultaneously working gradually to subdue them. The core problem is that most of us seek to be loved, rather than to love. We yearn to be understood by others, rather than to understand them. Our sense of emotional insecurities comes from the selfish obscuring of our own minds. We develop confidence by recognizing our inner potential to become a Selfless human being, having many magnificent qualities, then we’ll develop and have an accurate perception of ourselves, gaining self-confidence. We’ll seek to increase true unconditional love, to increase compassion, to cultivate patience, as well as generosity, right concentration and wisdom. Under the influence of attachment, we’re bound by our unstable emotional reactions to others. When they’re nice to us, we’re happy, but when they ignore us or speak sharply to us, we take it personally, and are unhappy. But pacifying attachment doesn’t mean we become hard-hearted, rather without attachments, there will be space in our hearts and minds for genuine affection and impartial love for them. And as a result, we’ll be more actively involved with them. As we learn to transform our minds & lives, through subduing our attachments, we can definitely have successful friendships, and personal relationships with others. These relationships will be richer, more meaningful because of the freedom and respect the relationships are based on. We’ll really care about the happiness and misery of all human beings equally, simply because everyone is the same inside: we all want inner peace of mind, Happiness, and to be from suffering.
However, of course, our lifestyles and interests may be a bit more compatible with some people. Our friendships and our personal relationships will be based on mutual interests, and to help other people. Having such an attitude, we’ll be much More Patient, & tolerant toward others; will remain mentally calm, having Peace of Mind AND Happiness, and Will communicate successfully with others in life.*

Answer 2

In YOUR world, no matter how big or small, is there peace?
If not, work in small ways to have peace in your life, your home, your place of work.
If so, spread it a little wider every day: a touch, a smile, a compliment, a flower, help someone just for today.....
we have to bring peace - there is no other choice for our beautiful planet.
so start in your own world.

Answer 3

I do not think that true peace can exist in humanity. It's contrary to human nature. I mean, think about it, the idea is AWESOME but that's just it--it's IDEALISTIC.
Take for example the Communist Manifesto--great idea the whole community sharing thing but it doesn't work IN humanity. You get things like....hmmm, Hitler??? Stalin?
Not to beat up on communism, but do you get my point?
Peace is not really in our blood, the only way to bring peace would be through something that is OUTSIDE human nature such as God. Religion is a powerful thing......

Answer 4

In order to bring peace, one must live peacefully. Do no violence, in thought or deed, to either human or animal. Speak no harshness, judgement, or criticism to anyone. Accept no offense, nor commit any offense. Practice humility, and be ready to offer respect to others. Speak the truth for the benefit of others, but with compassion and kindness. Forgive others readily. Live simply, accepting only what is necessary for maintenance, and give any surplus to charity. Envy no one. Do your own duty, without attachment to the results of that duty. Condemn no one, and take no pleasure in the misfortunes of others; rather, be ready to offer assistance to those in need, with no thought to your own.

This is peacefulness. If you set this example, others will follow.

Answer 5

I try my best to put a smile on people's faces simply by being myself, and when a conflict arises, I try to point out the good parts of both sides of the conflict, if I can see them. For me, I try to bring peace on an individual basis rather than to groups of people by being an activist. It is simply what works best for me.

Answer 6

Life is an endless struggle. At times, there is no telling who is on the right track, or in the direction of rationality. We are all for peace despite the misdeeds in our doing.

Answer 7

you dont. we live in a world full of humans, which are inherently reliant on disorder, conflict and problems. as stalin once said "death solves all problems - no man, no problem"

consider the paradox: to bring peace, we must have war

Answer 8

we will all be at peace eventually, most of you are conflicted by a society that has you Turing your back on your people

Answer 9

Live in such a way that God's love can bless you... care, respect, love, forgive, give, understand, sacrifice, reconcile...these deeds would give real peace within because you possess goodness in your heart that you can share to mankind...

Answer 10

keep yourself to yourself as much as possible. Only when there is a need to vocalize your notion or show your important existence do you need to be what to be.

Answer 11

One person can't. It takes us all and the only thing the human race ever did together is get older.