![]() This isn't hocus-pocus, this is practical- and applied-Buddhism, and your progress will be the result of dedication and effort. Our Dhamma-vinaya student community is donation-funded and I'm available for serious and dedicated practitioners of meditation-and-dharma to course-correct their views, understandings, and practices to help them overcome the challenges and problems that hold them back from making progress along the path toward Buddhist enlightenment. This special kind of one-on-one training isn't readily available to lay practitioners and I hope to do my part as I prepare to prepare to become a monk and enter into full-time Buddhist monastic life. I work with Buddhist practitioners of all levels to help them attain measurable spiritual progress toward Nibbāna. I've spent more than 30 years learning and cultivating what I do, and what I do goes far beyond meditation and dharma. I am a pre-monastic sakadāgāmi, early Buddhist teacher, enlightenment and streamentry (awakening) mentor, resilience and happiness counsellor, meditation instructor, transformative personal coach, and full-time Buddhist anagārika. Hi! My name is Michael Turner (my Dhamma name is Pasannacitta). Pity is a reflection of an unhealthy mind and those who engage in acts of Pity, even if only occasionally, can serve as excellent objects for our own compassion. It's more passive than compassion and is more often coupled with words-alone or superficial offerings rather than compassionate action. Pity, on the other hand, is borne of a better-off-than mindset, and one where help is often rendered with an unspoken expectation of something in return (e.g., appreciation, gratitude, respect, influence, reputation, ego, leverage, reciprocation, etc). It's a wonderful way to live life and to interact with the world around us! In many schools of Buddhism, we diligently work to cultivate insights into how compassion for others is an inexhaustible source of inner-peace, and though regular insights and practice, compassion begins to flow freely and easily, colouring everything we think, say, and do. and that's because it's supposed to, because it's a reflection of a heart that is open and vast, and of a mind that is free of self-cherishing thoughts and pettiness.Ĭompassion is often coupled with compassionate speech and/or action because genuine compassion is rarely passive. When we genuinely have concern for the well-being of others and we take skilful actions accordingly, we are certain to experience a deep sense of positive emotions and pleasure - it feels good to be compassionate toward others: it feels open and vast. ![]() One only needs to engage in genuinely compassionate thoughts, speech, and actions to experience the truth found in that teaching. Its foundation is based on the understanding that sincerely and unselfishly caring for others is an empowering source of peace and happiness. It's borne in the understanding that everyone is just like you: they are alive and have a strong wish to be happy and to be free of unhappiness. Still, we thought it would be fun to share our discovery with the folks at Roberts Carpet, which wasn't as easy as you might think.Ī voice at their corporate headquarters told us only Sam, the owner, could address such matters and that he was overseas at the moment.Compassion is the ability to recognise the suffering in one's self or in others, coupled with the unselfish desire to alleviate that suffering. "There are no plans to alter any existing businesses or their signage," his e-mail added. (We've had our graphic artist circle it in red for you, since he looked bored and likes red.) "I'm sure it was a necessary omission in order to remove the utilities in Photoshop," said Travis Younkin, the project's coordinator, of the missing Roberts Carpet & Fine Floors sign. It seems when the coalition's graphic artist got through replacing the ugly stop lights with pretty ones (as intended in the project), there was a little problem with removing the power lines (also intended). At least one of which, we were told, was very unintentional. (We also prefer our comics moving across a screen to eliminate the annoyance of reading or turning the page, but we digress.)įortunately, though, there is someone in our ranks who has a knack for spotting such details or we wouldn't have known to share the above photos with you - at least, not like this.Ĭontributed a couple of weeks back by the Kirby Coalition to illustrate what the corner of Kirby and Richmond will look like if Texas-star inlays are installed, there are a couple of other changes too. You see, where these two panels offer what amounts to flat, lifeless drawings of everyday people doing everyday things, we prefer things like a talking dog giving a hot foot to a talking rooster or vice versa.
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