It's all hate

Suicide bombings. Terrorist attacks. Sectarian violence. Black men killed by white cops. There are many more scenarios fueled by hate.

The perpetrators are ticking time bombs of hate, each wrapped in a different narrative, each waiting for that trigger moment.

But how does hate root itself in an individual, and how does it stay rooted and growing for generations or centuries?

This is no contemporary problem. It's an innate problem of the human condition. It won't be solved by new set of rules or guidelines or procedures. Those can't change the human heart.

The great spiritual teachers have shown us the way. But we don't listen. So what is the power of hate? How can an individual not feel it destroying himself from the inside as he unleashes it on others?

Hate is not set in the womb. It's not a product of genes and hormones. It's a product of human culture, and so not very easily changed.