Jul 15 2008
The Responsibility of Kindness
I recently received this through my ‘Tricycle Daily Dharma’ update and thought it was of relevance to one of my previous posts and would as well be of interest to my readers.
The Responsibility of Kindness Responsibility does not only lie with the leaders of our countries or with those who have been appointed or elected to do a particular job. It lies with each of us individually. Peace, for example starts within each one of us. When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us. When our community is in a state of peace, it can share that peace with neighboring communities, and so on. When we feel love and kindness towards others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace. And there are ways in which we can consciously work to develop feelings of love and kindness. For some of us, the most effective way to do so is through religious practice. For others it may be non-religious practices. What is important is that we each make a sincere effort to take seriously our responsibility for each other and for the natural environment. From the Dalai Lama’s “Nobel Peace Prize Lecture,” in The Dalai Lama: A Policy of Kindness
As many of you may remember, I previously talked about what I called the ‘Lazy Man’s Sophism’. It covered the idea that every individual has a responsibility towards change, and that at the same time every individual caused and influenced change.
Its very important to acknowledge this principle. We often as people make excuses for ourselves and our completely inconsistent with reality.
Anyhow I really can’t say it any better without being completely redundant. I just hope that you find this quote as interesting and insightful as I do (the Dalai Lama is the shiz-nit :D)!
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