Mike, Alrighty then, but what the Dalai Lama said was not referring to anything spiritual, was it? I don't think so. I don't think kindness or compassion is a spiritual quality. It's just what you do. There's nothing special about it.
...Bill! --- In [email protected], uerusuboyo@... wrote: > > Bill!,<br/><br/>I like what the Dalai Lama said. "Kindness is my religion". I > take this to mean that acting with compassion is open to any religion and not > just restricted to one (such as arguing that only being awake to Buddha > Nature is the Truth). If we act with compassionate awareness of what we're > doing, then I'd say *that* is being truly human. The examples Merle keeps > giving of wanton cruelty are examples of *not* being truly > human.<br/><br/>Mike<br/><br/>Sent from Yahoo! Mail for iPad > ------------------------------------ Current Book Discussion: any Zen book that you recently have read or are reading! Talk about it today!Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
