Peace begins with Compassion

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Comment by luisella valeri on December 26, 2008 at 9:44pm

Dear frends, this day it was dramatic at Pomaia (Pisa Italia, http://www.iltk.it/ also in English), where we have our Buddhist Monastery( the bigger one for importance in Europe): fire with a very very stong wind destroyed it and all the ancient sacred and rare books and writes, and statues, and sacred images and tanks! The danger is very very big and seroious! Our hearts are really proved! We, student of Lam-rim, ask help to all the world, for prayer, meditations, money, works, compassions, all!
Thanks and enjoy your 2009
Luisella

Comment by Stromek/LittleTree on December 7, 2008 at 7:05pm

Oh wow! Gita quotations and a thousand-armed Chenrezig! Our site has indeed been blessed in my absence! Keep up the wonderful work, and thank you very much to our new members!
Stromek/LittleTree

A note: I've changed my logon name to reflect a direct translation from the Czech of my last name: Little Tree (sometimes, Christmas Tree)

Comment by Mani kutty on November 30, 2008 at 6:32pm

Develop your faith and see the same divinity existing in every living being.Spread your love,which is the very essence ofyour divine nature and the divine nature of allliving beings ,Look upon every person with compassionand love.Unless you adopt this approach in your dealings with ithers , all your spiritual exercises will be just a waste.Worshipping God while harming your fellow beings can never take to your goal.The Gits teaches that man himself is God, and that God is man.This unity of God and man has repeatedly been emphasized in the Gita."Only one who treats all alike is a true human bening '" Lord Krishna proclaimed.

Comment by Mani kutty on November 18, 2008 at 2:48pm

It is to be noted that from birth to death, man is the slave of urges and hesitations.Man must examine these and rely more and more on those that lead him towards subjective joy rather than objective pleasure. Man should not consider that happiness consists in having a houseful of children and equipped with all gadgets for comfortable living.Nor can peace be realized through wealth,power or position.Subjective joy can be acquired by harmony at home,mutual cooperation among the members of the family and the community.
Bhagavan Satyasai baba

Comment by Stromek/LittleTree on November 7, 2008 at 3:21am

So how do we teach others that love is more important than power? How do we teach them that compassion is more powerful than guns?

Comment by Stuart Thomas on October 20, 2008 at 12:31pm

"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."

President Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
(given on March 4, 1865 while the American Civil War was in progress)

Comment by Stromek/LittleTree on October 19, 2008 at 5:55pm

Friends:
Due to technical probems with my computer, I have not been able to access the iPeace site, or other sites on the internet, recently. (My computer locks up after about 5 minutes on-site).

PLEASE, I invite you to carry on with discussions and postings in my absence!

Stromek

Comment by Stromek/LittleTree on September 28, 2008 at 9:00pm

Thank you for this information, Stuart!

Comment by luisella valeri on September 21, 2008 at 9:59pm

OM MANI PEME HUNG
Luisella

Comment by Stromek/LittleTree on September 19, 2008 at 5:12am

BlueMelusine: Thank you for the reminder! I didn't realize my depression shone through THAT darkly! I don't want to scare people off with it (LOL).

But what you say is true - more eloquently (and succinctly) than I can put it -- compassion starts with our self.

How many of the rest of the group truly feel compassion for themselves? How have you offerered your selves forgiveness (I find this an awkward thing to do). How to we extend forgiveness toward others whom have hurt us, or hurt other people in the world?

Please share your insights!

Stromek

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