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If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. ~Dalai Lama
Compassion is a mind that is motivated by cherishing other living beings and wishes to release them from their suffering.
“It is lack of love for ourselves that inhibits our compassion toward others. If we make friends with ourselves, then there is no obstacle to opening our hearts and minds to others.”
Sorry, Minnie.
Personality Paradox - Part III
The events of the past few days have had a big effect on my creativity.
I hope you all understand that the series insinuates nothing to anyone, it was just a cool idea that came to me, so I am going with it. Go with the creative flow.
“In the beginning people take compassion to mean the feeling of wanting to alleviate the person’s pain or take it away from them. That’s usually what people think compassion is. A deeper level of compassion is, of course, taking action whether you feel inclined to or not.
Compassion is a kind of healing agent which helps us to tolerate the hurt of seeing the truth. The function of compassion in the Work is not to reduce hurt; its function is to lead to the truth. Much of the time, the truth is painful or scary. Compassion makes it possible to tolerate that hurt and fear. It is on the side of truth, and helps us to persist in our search for truth. The truth will ultimately dissolve the hurt, but this is a by-product. In fact, it is only when compassion is present that people will allow themselves to see the truth. Where there is no compassion there is no trust.” - A. Hameed Ali
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compassion for all who live in darkness
for ingo ;)
"Compassion and tolerance are not
a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength."
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
Pronunciation: \kəm-ˈpa-shən\
a sympathetic consciousness of others' distress together with a desire to alleviate it
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OK, seriously, we have the best listeners in the world. I have got to brag on them!!
Our "3 Days of Compassion" has come to an end, and our final total of children sponsored through Compassion International was 839!! That number is way crazy awesome!!! Our listeners have now produced over 6,300 responses in 6 marathons since 2002 - by far the most by any one station in Compassion’s history!
"Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into places of pain, to share brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, to weep with those in tears. Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human..." - Henri Nouwen.
Lourdes is a place of compassion and love, often a revelation of the best in Catholicism.
I am making mandalas to increase my ability to find peace and calm during these shocking & horrible times in my country. My inspiration comes from my Buddhism. Viewers are invited to make their own meanings. I am using things in my cupboards, from my walls and garden and trying to focus my mind on the goodness and compassion I know still exist at hand & in this world.
Kuan Yin statue, pink quartz crystal and jasmine flowers.
taken in Hartlepool Art Gallery. There was a statue there and my husband Trevor suggested taking a photo of his hand touching the statues.
Om Mani Padme Hum
After seeing this image on various monitors, I realized the mantra (om mani padme hung) coming out her mouth is hard to see. It's important that this component of the image is seen as it brings new dimensions to the image beyond just a portrait of a little girl but a broader concept of those enlightened beings and their activities all around us . A yogini is a female knowledge holder or holder of authentic wisdom which transcends any 1 religious ownership. For the yogin and yogini every breath is a prayer born from the motivation to benefit others. So the image shows a young female whom isn't talking but her compassion is spontaneously expressed. The mantra itself isn't pronounced because the qualities and activities of the yogins and yogini's is often times very subtle and at times requires a tremendous amount of mindfulness and spiritual accomplishment to even perceive. Offering this explanation earlier or at time of posting is an oversight of mine. If the mantra was easily perceptible, cool.
atc for "wacky" swap. i was mailed 6 found objects from the swap host that i had to use in 6 different atc's. the object for this one was the background paper which i cut into 4 or 6 and rearranged. sheer gold paint can't be captured in scan!
There is a meter du Temple place in Tongliang County of Chongqing City, has a history of several hundred years Shakya Mani Buddha, special mercy, this statue of Buddha is particularly effective, people have what demand as long as the heart pious no evil case what she will give you strength and blessing, so a particularly strong!
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (July 14, 2022) Midshipmen 4th Class, or plebes, of 15th and 16th Company from the United States Naval Academy Class of 2026 participate in pistol and rifle training during Plebe Summer, a demanding indoctrination period intended to transition the candidates from civilian to military life. As the undergraduate college of our country's naval service, the Naval Academy prepares young men and women to become professional officers of competence, character, and compassion in the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Jordyn Diomede)
Compassion.
Exposition (MAS, Antwerp, Belgium).
Round glass window with the act of mercy (Antwerp, 19th century).
By the grace of compassion
May ice melt
May the water of the mountains
become bright clouds in blue skys
May the spirit of compassion warm your heart
Lifting you higher and higher
Leaving all waepons behind…
By the grace of compassion
HKD
This weekend I explored Hearty Creek in the Twin Sisters Range in NW Washington. The creek has at least seven waterfalls along its course and they are perhaps the most beautiful and diverse collection of waterfalls I've seen on one creek. Each waterfall has a different look and feel to it, but they are all great.
Compassion Falls is the 2nd of the seven waterfalls and the second tallest as well. Hearty Creek plunges 65' before cascading for an additional 21'. When the volume is lower, this 65' drop is one plunging segment, but when the creek is running higher water drops over the cliff in several places.
Oh, of course... It's on a tripod with the self timer on.
For the ONE campaign...
About ONE.org
ONE is the campaign to make poverty history.
ONE believes in the best American tradition of helping others help themselves.
ONE believes it is the time to join with other countries in a historic pact for compassion and justice to help the poorest people of the world overcome AIDS and extreme poverty.
ONE believes in fair trade, debt relief, fighting corruptions and directing additional resources for basic needs - education, health, clean water, food, and care for orphans.
ONE person. ONE face. ONE voice. ONE vote at a time. ONE better, safer world for all.
You are ONE.
I was out bus-spotting the other day hoping to capture a BYD electric bus that is running route 70 O'Connor when I came across an anti-China (more accurately, anti-Communist China) rally by a Chinese "new religion" group called Falun Gong.
Falun Gong is a new religious-political movement that started in China in the early 1990s. Many of you would know that generally speaking Communist regimes discourage religions. Within a few years, the Communist Chinese government increasingly viewed Falun Gong as a potential threat due to its size, independence from the state, and spiritual teachings. Falun Gong was soon outlawed in China and the movement's leadership moved to the U.S., with operations and followers (mostly Chinese immigrants from China but not those from Hong Kong, Taiwan or Singapore) in many countries.
Officially Falun Gong preaches "truthfulness, compassion and forbearance". Falun Gong members actively oppose Communism and their campaigns sometimes appear ultra-right-ring, due partly to their rhetoric seemingly aligning with those from President Trump's anti-China statements.
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The good deed you do today For a brother or sister in need Will come back to you some day For humanity's a circle in deed.
Robert Alan