Message from Dalai Lama

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The message below is from the Dalai Lama.

 

Dear friends around the world.

 

The events of this day cause every thinking person to stop their daily

lives,whatever is going on in them, and to ponder deeply the larger

questions of life. We search again for not only the meaning of life, but

the purpose of our individual and collective experience as we have

created it - and we look earnestly for ways in which we might recreate

ourselves anew as a human species, so that we will never treat each

other this way again.

 

The hour has come for us to demonstrate at the highest level our most

extraordinary thought about Who We Really Are.

 

There are two possible responses to what has occurred today. The first

comes from love, the second from fear.

 

If we come from fear we may panic and do things-as individuals and as

nations-that could only cause further damage. If we come from love we

will find refuge and strength, even as we provide it to others.

 

This is the moment of your ministry. This is the time of teaching. What

you teach at this time, through your every word and action right now,

will remain as indelible lessons in the hearts and minds of those whose

lives you touch, both now, and for years to come.

 

We will set the course for tomorrow, today. At this hour. In this

moment. Let us seek not to pinpoint blame, but to pinpoint cause.

 

Unless we take this time to look at the cause of our experience, we will

never remove ourselves from the experiences it creates. Instead, we will

forever live in fear of retribution from those within the human family

who feel aggrieved, and, likewise, seek retribution from them.

 

To us the reasons are clear. We have not learned the most basic human

lessons. We have not remembered the most basic human truths. We have not

understood the most basic spiritual wisdom. In short, we have not been

listening to God, and because we have not, we watch ourselves do ungodly

things.

 

The message we hear from all sources of truth is clear: We are all one.

That is a message the human race has largely ignored. Forgetting this

truth is the only cause of hatred and war, and the way to remember is

simple: Love, this and every moment.

 

If we could love even those who have attacked us, and seek to understand

why they have done so, what then would be our response? Yet if we meet

negativity with negativity, rage with rage, attack with attack, what

then will be the outcome?

 

These are the questions that are placed before the human race today.

They are questions that we have failed to answer for thousands of years.

Failure to answer them now could eliminate the need to answer them at

all.

 

If we want the beauty of the world that we have co-created to be

experienced by our children and our children's children, we will have to

become spiritual activists right here, right now, and cause that to

happen. We must choose to be at cause in the matter.

 

So, talk with God today. Ask God for help, for counsel and advice, for

 

insight and for strength and for inner peace and for deep wisdom. Ask

God on this day to show us how to show up in the world in a way that

will cause the world itself to change. And join all those people around

the world who are praying right now, adding your Light to the Light that

dispells all fear.

 

That is the challenge that is placed before every thinking person today.

Today the human soul asks the question: What can I do to preserve the

beauty and the wonder of our world and to eliminate the anger and

hatred-and the disparity that inevitably causes it - in that part of the

world which I touch?

 

Please seek to answer that question today, with all the magnificence

that is You. What can you do TODAY...this very moment?

 

A central teaching in most spiritual traditions is: What you wish to

experience, provide for another.

 

Look to see, now, what it is you wish to experience-in your own life,

and in the world. Then see if there is another for whom you may be the

source of that.

 

If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another.

 

If you wish to know that you are safe, cause another to know that they

are safe.

 

If you wish to better understand seemingly incomprehensible things, help

another to better understand.

 

If you wish to heal your own sadness or anger, seek to heal the sadness

or anger of another.

 

Those others are waiting for you now. They are looking to you for

guidance, for help, for courage, for strength, for understanding, and

for assurance at this hour. Most of all, they are looking to you for

love.

 

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

 

Dalai Lama

[Guest guest]

Namaste,

 

  Strong heart! this is no royal way,

  A thousand cross-roads seek the day;

  And, hid from us, to left and right,

  A thousand seekers seek the light.

                                                                      

                        Robert Louis Stevenson

 

 

Regards,

 

sunder

 

 

 

 

advaitin, Narendra <Laurent_Claude_3@c...> wrote:

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