ah ha...now we see the real mike... unashamed and naked before "god" merle
Bill!, True. I'm not really that comfortable with the word 'spiritual' myself because its so hard to pin down a definitive meaning. The meaning I usually have for it is just a convenient label for the cultivation and transformation of the ordinary, everyday self to the all inclusive non-self. Mike Sent from Yahoo! Mail for iPad ________________________________ From: Bill! <[email protected]>; To: <[email protected]>; Subject: Re: [Zen] rise above to where? Sent: Tue, Jun 25, 2013 11:57:43 AM 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 >
