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By: Pamela Leavey On: February 22, 2010 at 11:44 pm
“We don’t learn how to cultivate love and compassion from those who are easy to love, we learn it from those for whom our love requires significant effort and constant practice – our so-called enemies.” ~~ the Dalai Lama, quoted in THE NEW MANDALA – Eastern Wisdom for Western Living
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“There’s no shop that sells kindness, you must build it within. You can transplant hearts, but you cannot transplant a warm heart.” – The Dalai Lama
Sphere: Related ContentBy: Pamela Leavey On: May 4, 2009 at 4:41 pm
Last week, I drove down to Massachusetts so that I could attend the inaugural event at MIT’s Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values.
My interest in attending the event was two fold:
The Center’s inaugural event at MIT was quite different from the large event at Gillette Stadium on Saturday that drew a diverse crowd of nearly 16,000.
Peppering his talk on promoting ethics and compassion, with his wonderful sense of humor, my first impression of His Holiness, was that he possesses a quality of pure happiness and joy, that I would liken to the happiness that is reflected in a small child. When we are young we are far more open and joyful than we are as adults, because we are not burdened and encumbered with the problems that age and responsibility set upon us. Continue Reading… »
Sphere: Related ContentBy: Pamela Leavey On: April 28, 2009 at 8:44 pm
I’m heading to the Boston area tomorrow morning for a 3 days so that I can attend the inaugural event at The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT on Thursday, April 30.
I’ve been granted a press pass from The Center, so I will have a substantial piece on the event when I return from Boston which will be published on The Democratic Daily. I’m very excited about the opportunity to hear His Holiness, The Dalai Lama speak on the topic of Ethics and Enlightened Leadership. I believe The Dalai Lama is one of the great spiritual leaders of our time and in my quest for inner peace his teaching have always resonated with me.
The Center “will promote the Dalai Lama’s vision of a better world by sponsoring interdisciplinary programs and deliberations on ethics.”
A collaborative think tank, the center is supported through the generosity of friends who recognize its potential to help shape tomorrow’s leaders. It will invite distinguished researchers, educators, entrepreneurs, policymakers, artists and others from diverse cultural, religious and educational backgrounds to contribute to its objectives through workshops and lecture series.
There’s more info on The Center here.
Sphere: Related ContentBy: Pamela Leavey On: April 23, 2009 at 1:44 pm
“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.” – His Holiness, The Dalai Lama
The Dalai Lama is scheduled to be in the U.S. over the next 2 weeks for a series of events, including the Inauguration of The Dalai Lama Center at MIT in Boston, on April 30.
Sphere: Related ContentBy: Pamela Leavey On: March 11, 2009 at 11:55 am
Yesterday marked the 50th anniversary of The Dalai Lama’s exile from Tibet. His wisdom has always been a great source of inspiration for me. As BohemianWomen is focusing on the arts, I thought this was a fitting qoute for the day:
As free human beings we can use our unique intelligence to try to understand ourselves and our world. But if we are prevented from using our creative potential, we are deprived of one of the basic characteristics of a human being.
I’ve long believed that creativity is like a window into the soul and it’s a powerful release of our deepest energies.
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