Sustainability and Politics: Dalai Lama prays for Senate to help ‘dispel misery of the world’

Thursday, March 6, 2014

Dalai Lama prays for Senate to help ‘dispel misery of the world’ | OnPolitics

Dalai Lama prays for Senate to help ‘dispel misery of the world’ | OnPolitics

Let's hope so. Or at least help dispel their contributing to the misery of the world. Read: No Keystone XL, no Trans-Pacific Partnership, no more letting Monsanto run amuck, increasing taxes on Wall Street and decreasing our ATM withdrawl fees; Yes to raising the minimum wage, completing immigration reform, etc. etc.

Gotta love the Dalai Lama.

"Our mind is central and precedes our deeds. Speak or act with your
pure mind and happiness will follow you like a shadow that never
leaves,” the Dalai Lama said, as he translated his words into English.
“May there be joy in the world with bountiful harvest and spiritual
wealth..."

The prayer ends with a call to “dispel the misery of the world.”

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I've been thinking some about the Winter Solstice, the Mayan end of the 30,000-year-cycle on 12/21/12.

What if in fact the world did end? Even though this probably will not happen, to live consciously it is honest for us to take a bit of an inventory.

Am I happy with how I've lived my life? (Yesterday, I thought mostly yes, with some areas for improvement, as below.) Are there changes I would make?
Would I have tried to forgive those that were hostile or disappointing to me?
Would I spend more time with those I loved the most, telling them that, feeling that more?
Would I be happier, grateful for what I have, what I've experienced, the joy, the beauty in this world?

Maybe the answer is yes to all of the above.
So this time can serve as a point of rebirth for all of us. If we think about it.

Because somewhere along the line I realized I think maybe mankind deserves it. !
The way we are killing each other, killing the planet.
How selfish we are, and snotty to those around us. Petty, competitive. Why is this? Do we have to behave this way? (I say no, it greatly detracts and misdirects energy from the full-time celebration in which we could engage, the great multi-cultural, multi-rhythmic dance we can sustain here.)

Maybe God or the Great Universe is fed up, and will pull the rug out from under us.
Don't think I can say we could blame Him/Her/It.

But it probably won't happen. (Probably not! This time.)

Still we are finite on this ride.

It is a time to think, am I happy with how I've lived my life?
Hopefully most of us can say yes.

For the part of us that have a little worry, a little sadness....
This is the time to be present.
This is the time to be the person you want to be, that can die at peace, that can hope to every day be able to look yourself and the Universe in the eye and say, how beautiful, smiling, and thank you. Let's do that.