Question: “I’d like to ask your opinion on this. So Yin Yang describes how opposite forces are interconnected and give rise to each other as they interrelate. With that being said do you think Peace and War balance each other out or would a peaceful world with no war even be possible?”
Let’s look at it from a “positive” and “negative,” or better yet a “beginning” and “end” perspective. In Buddhism, everything that happens is due to causes and conditions of something else, and consequences of those conditions create other causes – an endless cycle. We can look at peace and war as positive and negative, or beginning and end (or vice versa). So likeeverything on this planet, there is a beginning (birth) and an ending (death).
Likewise, peace and war must begin and must end. Earth has had many wars that began and ended, and it also had moments of peace that began and ended. In Buddhism, alongside positive and negative, we have neutral, which are the moments of neither causes nor conditions to create positives or negatives (or beginning and end).
I don’t know if a peaceful world with no war is possible or not. Our world’s collective karma increases negatively as time goes by, so the causes for wars increase and the effects leave us with a dying world.
Smile and be well!