I received a very articulate request for clarification on the the entry The State of Mindlessness. To read the question in it's entirety and the response please click here.
Question: ...Answer five causes me the most concern. Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. both exemplify nonviolent ways of dealing with evil without harming humans. They both embraced the concept of nonviolent action as an effective means of curing the evil caused by the perverse retroviruses of "greed, anger and ignorance." Yet the "State of Mindlessness" seems, to me, to mean that the Buddhist practitioner will seek " serenity of ... mind" by "discarding all distinctions between good and bad" rather than confronting and removing the harm caused by evil...