09May/10

The Limits of Compassion

05/09/2010business, charter for compassion, compassionate city, compelling question, university, wisdom 2.0TCN

Happy Mother’s Day! No one believes in me and sacrificed more for me than my mother. I see that mothers are the most compassionate beings indeed — toward their own children. Paul Ekman calls “tribal-bound compassion” the problem of our time, of our century. Until we untangle ourselves from this…

29Apr/10

Please Call Me by My True Names

04/29/2010kindness compassionTCN

慈悲: Kindness that bestows happiness and compassion that alleviates suffering. —Don’t say that I will depart tomorrow —even today I am still arriving. Look deeply: every second I am arrivingto be a bud on a Spring branch,to be a tiny bird, with still-fragile wings,learning to sing in my new nest,to…

18Feb/10

An Antidote for Too Much Thinking: Breathing Exercises

02/18/2010UncategorizedTCN

(Extrapolated from the Sitting Dhyana Samadhi Sutra) For beginners, focus on counting your breaths from one to ten. For more advanced practitioners, follow the breaths and count from one to ten, but stop thinking when breathing pauses. For the most advanced practitioners, count while pausing and contemplating; the practice becomes…

16Feb/10

An Antidote for Hatred: Kindness

02/16/2010antidote, dhyana, kindness, meditation, samadhiTCN

(Extrapolated from the Sitting Dhyana Samadhi Sutra) For beginners, start by being kind to those you care about. Make the wishes of your dearly beloved come true. Make them happy physically, psychically and spiritually by providing them with material gifts, for example. Practitioners focus on kind thoughts without veering. For…

05Feb/10

Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise

02/05/2010women faith spiritfaith, maya angelou, spiritual, womenTCN

Did you want to see me broken? Bowed head and lowered eyes? Shoulders falling down like teardrops. Weakened by my soulful cries? . . . You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air,…

03Feb/10

The Sacred Feminine

02/03/2010UncategorizedTCN

A Compelling Call to Peace on Earth The knowledge we need for harmony among the world’s religions and spiritual communities lies in the wisdom of the feminine. The sacred feminine is always attuned to the oneness, the interconnected wholeness of life. A world that is not connected to its soul…

10Jan/10

Peace Momentos from the Parliament of World’s Religions

01/10/2010UncategorizedTCN

Is Peace Possible? War, strife, deaths. The cause of so much of the woes in our world is too often religion. Those who promise heavenly peace unfortunately become the very ones who prevent peace on earth. Peace seems impossible. However, we can help to lengthen the moments of peace and…

17Dec/09

Activate Compassion with Karen Armstrong

12/17/2009UncategorizedTCN

This Friday, December 18th, Karen Armstrong will host a one hour Facebook conversation on compassionate action. Join her at 6pm GMT (1pm EST/10am PST) on the discussion boards and click the link titled “LIVE DISCUSSION WITH KAREN ARMSTRONG 12/18”.Focusing on the calls to action in the Charter (posted below), participants…

05Dec/09

Charter for Compassion: 25,000 Affirmers and More

12/05/2009charter for compassion, Uncategorizedcharter for compassion, city of compassion, seattleTCN

As we close a decade marked by war, help us usher in a decade focused on compassion. The names of all affirmers on December 31 will be sent along with the Charter for Compassion to 5 world leaders whose countries are engaged in conflict. Add your name today and encourage…

02Dec/09

What the Vision Does

12/02/2009UncategorizedTCN

What the Vision Doesby Peter Senge [Listen to Audio! New!] If your deeper intention is an inseparable part of how you are, it is not capable of attachment. You can seek to accomplish your intention. You live out your intention. It is like the wind, the life force from which…