The practices of loving kindness, compassion and equanimity offer no promise of a happy ending. These practices are not about avoiding uncertainty and fear but how we relate to discomfort. They teach us how to practice with everyday encounters, and with our emotions.
As long as there is prejudice, we declare we are unable to know one another, and yet it is exactly this type of prejudice that keeps us from knowing ourselves. As long as we insist we are separate, individual entities apart from the rest of the universe, then we shall never realize the oneness.
Give up all concepts, judgements and desires and your mind will grow naturally compassionate. The more we let go of what we love, the more present our love becomes. The clearer our insight into what is beyond good and evil the more we can embody the good.
What has been spoiled by man’s fault can be made good through man’s work. Once we know the causes of decay, we must not recoil from working diligently on them, even if it is difficult. We must work tirelessly towards improving conditions in the world.
Quote: We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children. Haida Indian saying.