A common space for harmonic peacemakers
As we have already seen, reversing the attitude of not wanting to suffer is the whole basis for transforming suffering into our spiritual path. This is because we simply won’t be able to turn suffering into the path as long as anxiety and irritation continue to eat away at our confidence and disturb our mind.
The more we arrive at actually transforming suffering into the path, the more we will enhance and reinforce all our previous practice. This is because our courage and good humour will grow all the more, once we can see from our own experience how suffering causes our spiritual practice and qualities to blossom.
It is said that by training gradually with smaller sufferings, ‘step by step, in easy stages’, then in the end we’ll be able to handle big suffering and difficulties too. We must go about it like this, because it is extremely difficult to have an experience of something which is beyond our level or capacity.
~ Dodrupchen Jigme Tenpe Nyima
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"When you listen to someone, you should give up all your preconceived ideas and your subjective opinions; you should just listen to him, just observe what his way is. We put very little emphasis on right and wrong or good and bad. We just see how things are with him and accept them. This is how we communicate with each other. Usually when you listen to some statement, you hear it as some kind of echo of your self. You are actually listening to your own opinion."
- Shunryu Suzuki
Indeed, always good!
And yet, this has a reason for being.
We are all citizens of this World, and we need to unite and understand that we are the same species and that we are all vulnerable beings...
The Coronavirus has made the nations of the world more insular and focused on self survival. The truth, however, is the defeat of this virus anywhere depends on defeating everywhere. We all know the virus knows no borders or barriers. Not only that we don’t look at this problem internationally we have a myopic view within our own countries. Even the United States people think areas that are not severely affected can afford to ignore safety restrictions.
Arun Gandhi, 5th of May 2020
Beautiful!
"PEACE
NOT WAR
GENEROSITY
NOT GREED
EMPATHY
NOT HATE
CREATIVITY
NOT DESTRUCTION
EVERYBODY
NOT JUST US"
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