Gate Twenty Eight
Read the following, place it in your heart and sleep on it. Then, tomorrow, live it until evening when you can leave a brief comment on what you may have received during the process.
Recognition of kindness is a gate of Dharma illumination; for [with it] we do not throw away good roots.
By “Dharma Gate”, we mean a teaching or practice we can study to gain insights into the deepening our practice. It's a way to integrate our understanding of approaching reality.
Koan:
After two years of coronavirus restrictions, there is increased global stress in the collective mental, emotional and physical systems. A poll taken when the omicron variant was detected in the United States found that 6 in 10 said they were "worn out" by the pandemic. Many said they were struggling to maintain tolerance and had a shorter fuse for irritation and anger. Others said the uncertainty was intensifying anxiety. The increase in these types of emotions amplifies division and separation.
To offset this scenario, we can make an effective heart choice to increase our compassionate latitude for each other and ourselves, realizing that people are doing the best they can, considering the stress load and duress many have experienced. Within our hearts, we can sense that most of us are likely experiencing similar highs and lows in our thoughts, feelings, and challenges.
Increasing our compassionate care for each other gives us the capacity and resilience to empathize with others’ stress points without losing our own emotional equanimity. As heart energy increasingly moves through our interactions, our own harsh judgments and separative feelings start to fade and become replaced with a desire to be kinder and cooperate together. This can draw solutions that are better for the whole..
Most note worthy replies :
I like this idea that kindness having good roots. Like a plant that is allowed to flourish.
A single act of kindness is a two-way street. Certainly we must spread kindness ourselves, but it is equally important to embrace the kind acts of others as that acceptance helps to nourish their ongoing kindness and generosity.
合掌
stlah
Read the following, place it in your heart and sleep on it. Then, tomorrow, live it until evening when you can leave a brief comment on what you may have received during the process.
Recognition of kindness is a gate of Dharma illumination; for [with it] we do not throw away good roots.
By “Dharma Gate”, we mean a teaching or practice we can study to gain insights into the deepening our practice. It's a way to integrate our understanding of approaching reality.
Koan:
After two years of coronavirus restrictions, there is increased global stress in the collective mental, emotional and physical systems. A poll taken when the omicron variant was detected in the United States found that 6 in 10 said they were "worn out" by the pandemic. Many said they were struggling to maintain tolerance and had a shorter fuse for irritation and anger. Others said the uncertainty was intensifying anxiety. The increase in these types of emotions amplifies division and separation.
To offset this scenario, we can make an effective heart choice to increase our compassionate latitude for each other and ourselves, realizing that people are doing the best they can, considering the stress load and duress many have experienced. Within our hearts, we can sense that most of us are likely experiencing similar highs and lows in our thoughts, feelings, and challenges.
Increasing our compassionate care for each other gives us the capacity and resilience to empathize with others’ stress points without losing our own emotional equanimity. As heart energy increasingly moves through our interactions, our own harsh judgments and separative feelings start to fade and become replaced with a desire to be kinder and cooperate together. This can draw solutions that are better for the whole..
– you can do this now because it is simple common sense.
Most note worthy replies :
I like this idea that kindness having good roots. Like a plant that is allowed to flourish.
A single act of kindness is a two-way street. Certainly we must spread kindness ourselves, but it is equally important to embrace the kind acts of others as that acceptance helps to nourish their ongoing kindness and generosity.
Embrace the kindness
Of others
So they may grow too
合掌
stlah
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