> Subject: > Fwd: Dalai lama > Date: > Tue, 25 Sep 2001 01:51:00 -0500 > > >His Holiness 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 dispels 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 > > > >"Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a > >night > >already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out hate only light can > do > >that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that. Hate > multiplies > >hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness > in > >a > >descending spiral of destruction?" > > > > Martin Luther King > >
-- carol starr taos, new mexico, usa [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://laplaza.org/~datastar/index.html
