The Karma of Politics

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My very upbringing,
The people I'm friends with,
The things I value in life,
The party I tend to vote for,
The countries that are my "enemies",
The ideology that I support,

Were all influenced by factors that existed before I was born.

So, why attach myself to any of them? To assume that any of these things are "mine" is quite mistaken. They are all conditioned by the community, the ancestors, the country, the status of the world, and time itself.

The right ideology and the right path should be independent of conditions. It is within all of us at this very moment.

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