No Royal Road to Reconciliation

Early in her work for peace, Gene became concerned about the psychological causes of violence. Never did she feel that people were congenitally evil; instead, she accepted the Buddhist understanding that the cause of our suffering is ignorance-but ignorance of what?

From her training and practice as client and therapist, she learned that a strong cause of anger and violence is pain. When the pain becomes too great to manage, we are often driven to violence. This insight helped her realize t...