What does a bullet cost? Almost one hundred years ago, in 1914, one man with a pistol set the world ablaze with one bullet. On the streets of Sarajevo, Gavrilo Princeps plunged this planet into a war that would change the map of the world. The reverberations of this gunshot can still be felt to this very day. An entire world was set ablaze by one bullet. Violence is violence no matter how small the action may seem to be. Some factory, somewhere, had to manufacture that bullet. Some unknown worker had to shape it's casing and fill it with a deadly powder that would eventually destroy countless millions of lives. I wonder what would have happened if that innocent worker could have known beforehand that his hands would be stained by the blood of all those innocent people. Would he still have fashioned that bullet? What do you think? Can I seek peace and work for the machinery of destruction? One of the precepts of Buddhism is "right work". Much can be said about this teaching when viewed in the context of this one bullet that brought forth a World War. I cannot find peace and be a part of any force that would profane the very peace that I seek. My action, no matter how small, has consequences. My steps will always leave footprints. And the footprints of my actions may have a significance that could literally change the world. I must always do my part in working for peace no matter how small or insignificant it may seem to be when I do it. visonary imagist "Joey"