Courage & Compassion
Two minutes ago (at the time I wrote this), I signed the evaluation note of a woman I will be seeing for speech therapy. She is a well-educated woman who, at a not very advanced age, has been...
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Is Compassion a function of Experience?
There’s a story my mother tells from when I was a child. She used to be very involved in the church we went to at the time (Episcopalian). One day she was volunteering at a ecumenical luncheon being...
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Right-Wrong Buddhism
Duty Calls - xkcd.comYesterday, I posted a link at the Average Buddhist Facebook Community to a USA Today article about Han Chinese who are turning to Tibetan Buddhism as a spiritual practice. Some...
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Cultural Lies and History
In the course of applying practice to my daily life, I have come to the conclusion it is necessary to be brutally honest with myself. It has also proven to be necessary to consistently question that...
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The Tree of Compassion
We get by with a little help from our friends. - The Beatles We all need support sometimes. There are days we feel strong as an oak. On others we feel, shall we say, less than prepared to meet the...
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The Tree of Compassion, Part Deux
Spring has come early to the Boston area. Already in mid-March we are enjoying days in the high 70′s and 80′s. Ignoring what that may mean for global climate change and for August (given the paucity of...
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Book Review: How to Be Compassionate by the Dalai Lama
“When you are caught up in a destructive emotion, you have lost one of your greatest assets; your independence.” (page 1) Some days, it is difficult to accept the teaching that compassion and clarity...
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A conundrum that has always intrigued me is the way in which things we do in our desire to help people, can sometimes cause more suffering than if we had done nothing at all. In The Average Buddhist...
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Bodhisattva Fatigue
A few days ago, I read a book review of The World Is Not Ours To Save by Tyler Wigg-Stevenson. It was perception-altering for me. Given it’s the review’s brevity (and of course the fact that I haven’t...
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