Buddhism and Police Officers
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The Earthstore Bodhisattva Sutra is a great scripture to explore in managing criminals. Those Ghost Kings mentioned in it who conducting enforcement are actually the reincarnation of Earthstore Bodhisattva. Each and every one of ghost kings is representing each enforcement role to ensure safe, security and in a skilful ways offering their unconditional kind helps to the sinners to turn over a new leaf even prior to their sins are conducted
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Without Karma, all the security offices can closed down
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Police officers especially in Singapore are doing a very great service to act as cushion and also enforcement on law and order, so that public disorder and crimes are kept minimised and minor. Police officers when over reactive in its service rendered, might cause undue distress that is harmful mentally and as a result generating body illness.
Teaching from buddhism for police officers is to maintain a mind of neither bad karma nor good karma in its enforcement, and simultaneously benevolence. Benevolence means when majority of public is too tension on law for trivial matter, it is not a good sign to develop a nation's spirit of cordiality, magnanimity and generosity of mind.
To reiterate the essential points, are to have a mindset of neither good karma nor bad karma in dealing with potential criminal or criminal, and simultaneously in benevolence. Without benevolence, this mindset may become villainous while carrying out enforcement service, that creating bad karma, and mental illness. The reason that police officers dare not act villainously are basically attributing to law protecting public against unruly officer, rather than from its nature kindness. Thus such mindset coupled with benevolence is awesome. Conversely, without such mindset, police officer enforcement will generate harmful effect towards themselves unknowing in short and long term. Law and order are subjected to country, era and circumstances, while karma are beyond govern of country, era, living beings and circumstances.