Mumbai Attacks - Deepak Chopra transcript from Larry King Live
Thursday November 27, 2008
Categories: Politics
(CNN) -- The Indian city of Mumbai exploded into chaos early Thursday morning as gunmen launched a series of attacks across the country's commercial capital, killing scores of people and taking hostages in two luxury hotels frequented by Westerners. Deepak...
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Thanks for your comments Deepak.
This is so right-on....
"... world has to be very careful that they don't go after the wrong people. Because if you go after the wrong people, you convert moderates into extremists. It happens every time, and retribution against innocent people just because they have the same religion actually aggravates and perpetuates the problem."
As in Iraq....
Thank you for your pragmatic but peaceful outlook and comments on this scary situation. God Bless the World (as is says on my bumper sticker).
Deepak is absolutely right. This kind of Free speech acutally gets us closer to a solution.
I think this is a turning point in India's foreign policy and national security. After the situation in Mumbai has been resolved, the government needs to take ACTIONABLE steps to:
1. Ensure 100% safety of its own citizens and put in the right laws/bodies/organisations etc. in place to enforce such mechanisms. Ideally, I would like grassroots movements to be started like Anti-Terror Societies/ Support Groups where even the common man can be involved.
2. Stop bickering with Pakistan because this is problem is not limited to Pakistan and it is not in India's best interest to continuously keep blaming its neighbour instead it should GO AFTER terrorists actively (the PM himself used the term "any cost") outside Indian territory in order to protect its own national sovereignity. We need to take a more pro-active and offensive approach.
On a dual note, the citizens need to use this as a moment to take ownership of their own country and take pride in solving grassroots problems like poverty, education, corruption etc. because it is these very basic problems that give rise to larger problems that we have just witnessed in Mumbai over the past few days.
Dipak belongs to the part of good world, who is above and beyond cynicism. I hope and pray that good world unite against the bad world and win over evil - whether institutional or not.
Thank you Deepak, as always, for your insightful perspective.
My thoughts and prayers go out for your friends and relatives that you have been trying to contact in Mumbai.
What an idiot. At a time like this, he chooses to spout meaningless platitudes.
Chopra should be ashamed of himself.
All words are thoughts.
All thoughts are based on either a fear or a desire.
A fear is a thought of losing something that is not real.
A desire is a thought of wanting something that is not real.
Now see everything you read here. Are they real enough to create more comments here ? Are your interpretations free from your wants or fear?
Life happens to us and world appears as interpreted to minds. Mind does not make the life happen otherwise we all would be millionaires. Mind does not understand what the real life is. Mind has waves after waves of thoughts.This world has many versions. Each conditioned mind has its own version. We are what we think we are. One mind describes its version of the world using its own selection of words. From words many more words and thoughts arise. Again they all are interpreted by many minds. Accepting the 'now' moment is the only reality ...real peace ... real oneness. Peace is not out there. Peace is here now, not in ideas, not in news media and not in revenge theories or blaming games.
Can we accept that all our minds are conditioned? Can we let go the conditioning that we can change the world. Then see if we have words to comment upon ? Someone who reads this email may not even display it on the web. It all depends on how one is conditioned to accept this world or words. Change happens when the unknown grace wants it.
Life happens to us as the grace provides it but various versions of the world happens to our minds. Mind can not cease to exist at its own. It is the grace that makes a man mindless. Till then words will continue to put meaning to the world. Mind can not understand life. It tries to comment and explain like the posting of the comment is happening. Please guess who is writing a URL to the above comment. Guess who is moving these fingers.
The same unknown grace makes Deepak to write,Larry to ask questions and you to read. Who is reading interpretations based on inverted images on your retina ? You are reading this here and now because you could not be anywhere else. Deepak too was on Larry's show and words happened because he could not be anywhere else.
Right or wrong are interpretations. They too happen as mind happens to function.
Chopra's main point is that atrocities committed by Islamist extremists should, and can, be ended by appeasing Muslims. This ignores the reality that most terrorist acts are organized by the Pakistani military and funded by the US taxpayer (through ignorance) and the Arab oil shiekh (through malice and greed). Chopra's stupid notion is extremely insulting to the millions of Indian Muslims who are just as patriotic and peaceful as their Hindu or Christian or Buddhist or Jain compatriots. On top of that he brings in an utterly one-sided and false view of the horrible events of Gujarat 2002, which started with the burning alive of 58 Indians (including people of all religions) by a rabid Muslim mob. In the ensuing riots, a few more of the dead were Muslims than Hindis, but many of the dead were policemen trying to stop violence. Chopra obviously made his comments to sell more books to the terminally clueless, of which there is no lack in the US or India. He knows that he is no danger of being asked to go try out his "solution" with the Lashkar-e-Toiba and suffering the sort of horrible death by torture that so many innocents have suffered at the hands of those whom he asks the rest of us to "appease". Hope you enjoy the blood money, Dr. Chopra.
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