One

In spirit we experience that you and I are one

but that we are still free to be ourselves

--- Everyday Zen

Great Compassion

The question then is "How do we cultivate and develop this bodhicitta, the mind of enlightenment?" The key, and the root, is great compassion. Compassion here refers to a state of mind that makes it utterly unbearable for us to see the suffering of other sentient beings. The way to develop this is through understanding how we feel about our own suffering

---The Dalai Lama

The breaking of chains

 

Loyalty to petrified opinion never broke a chain or freed a human soul

---Mark Twain

 

Your koan for today . . .

Why do 1.5 billion people have no access to clean water?
Why do 1.3 billion people live on an income of less than $1.00 a day?
Why do 1 billion people live in substandard housing?
Why do 40,000 children die of malnutrition every day? 

When

The three richest people on earth are worth more than the 48 poorest nations;
50 billion dollars a year well spent would eradicate poverty;
The United States spends $500 billion dollars a year on defense . . .

A happy man

A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future

---Albert Einstein

Gandhi on "Moral Authority"

 

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort

---Gandhi

 

Your koan for today . . .

 

Why do 1 in 5 human beings on the planet see "Baywatch" re-runs every week? 

More people watch this old show than take Communion, bow toward Mecca, pray facing East, or light incense and sit in contemplation . . . 

Mountains and Rivers and Cats . . .

God Is. Truth Stands.

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained

---Gandhi