The Importance of a Compassionate Mind by Dalai Lama ...
I would like to add this youtube video of Dalai Lama for your consideration ...
'The Importance of a Compassionate Mind' by Dalai Lama (video 2:07)
His Holiness the Dalai Lama talks about the importance of compassion during his inaugural address "The Art of Happiness in Troubled Times" at the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit in New Delhi, India, on November 19th, 2010.
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Permalink Reply by John Ishvaradas Abdallah on -
It is worth watching and sharing ...
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Permalink Reply by James Anthony Prendergast on -
You are a valuable channel for peace, John!
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Permalink Reply by Spencer Perdriau on
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John,
I intuit that it is far better to have a compassionate heart than mind. The mind is always fleeting, fickle and questioning about reality and life. That is the very nature of mind. The mind needs to be disciplined and tempered by a steady and grounded foundation of being (heart) if the mind is to know true contentment, compassion and peace (of that deeper nature, and be in it). The mind alone cannot do this (since its very nature is always fleeting and fickle). We need to re-align our lower self (ego/personal mind) to The Higher Self (Universal/Impersonal Spirit) if we are to achieve lasting compassion and liberation in our lives.
I do not endorse constant happiness in this life. That is impossible as a constant in "relative" life. I do however endorse lasting contentment in this life, no matter what life deals out to us - good, bad, indifferent.
Mystic Blessings from Spencer = ^
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Permalink Reply by Ron Krumpos on -
To quote the Dalai Lama:
"The compassionate mind is very important. Fear, anger, jealousy are based on a self-centered attitude. By developing a sense of caring for others' well-being your heart automatically opens and that brings transparency, straightforwardness and honesty, which leads to friendship. We are social animals, and one individual...'s survival relies entirely on the rest of the community."
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It seems the Golden Rule of Life is the prerequisite for this compassionate state of mind and being from self-centerdness to other-centerdness. This can only happen in one's life by realizing and/or experiencing the unity of all life - that we are all essentially connected (on all levels of reality) as One Big Universal Being in The Greater Self of God. As the Master rightly said...
"What you do unto these, even the least of them, you also do it unto Me."
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Mystic Blessings from Spencer = ^
Ron Krumpos said:To quote the Dalai Lama:
"The compassionate mind is very important. Fear, anger, jealousy are based on a self-centered attitude. By developing a sense of caring for others' well-being your heart automatically opens and that brings transparency, straightforwardness and honesty, which leads to friendship. We are social animals, and one individual...'s survival relies entirely on the rest of the community."
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Permalink Reply by James Anthony Prendergast on
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It is good to see that we are all on the same page. Certainly there is the individual mind and the social mind. The emerging of self consciousness of the human mind was a complicated, convoluted evolution. The birth of modern consciousness can be said to be represented by the birth of Jesus Christ- the spokesman for the Altruistic Gene. Modern history indicates that mercy is an evolutionarily stable meme. Let's hope so!
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Permalink Reply by Mataji Gauribrata, Rev Eva on -
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Permalink Reply by Mataji Gauribrata, Rev Eva on
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If divinity is in all at all times, can you walk by one who is being beaten and see divinity in all actions;or do you exit from your form as an unripe ego to allow dvinity to enter and fill your form to be used by divinity raising the unripe ego to a ripened ego doing and serving all with love, compassion, advocacy and justice. Is one then not a practitioner of all, doing and serving so that all beings may evolve through involution and evolution with the support of society and be uplifted from animality to humanity; humanity to divinity. Does not this infinite consciousness once realized; not expect us to be used in the works of the world worshipping shiva in jivas, better yet worshipping Shiva/Shakti the Holy Twins within all for the betterment of all humanity and the world.
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Permalink Reply by Mataji Gauribrata, Rev Eva on
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Your words resonate truth. Namaskar is not through meditation but a cultural practice of folding your hands together and saluting intentionally and awake and consciously each individual one may meet and then consciously and awake remain focusing your eyes into the individual before you and sincerely allowing them to practice seeing the divinity in you. Whether you are meditating in the shrine or the caves, whether you do japa 108 times or 10,000 times, a continued practice is also practiced by the masses through service of and worship of the divinity of all humankind and the sustainability of mother earth. No matter what one does if done remembering divinity and the upliftment of all humankind, worshipping the spirit in action with the goal of inaction in action; All paths lead to Brahman. Each individual is potentially divine as a jnana, bhakti, raja, karma practioner.leading one to the source of unconditonal love, compassion ate service and the evolution and involution of all. Serve in the world but be not of it. Give until the giving merges you into wholeness.
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