spiritual

Dalai Lama Decries Buddhist Attacks On Muslims In Myanmar

COLLEGE PARK, Md., May 7 (Reuters) - Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Tuesday decried Buddhist monks' attacks on Muslims in Myanmar, saying killing in the name of religion was "unthinkable."

The Dalai Lama, a foremost Buddhist leader, told an audience at the University of Maryland at the start of a U.S. tour that the root of seemingly sectarian conflict was political, not spiritual.

Mahatma Gandhi--The Essential Gandhi

    

Gandhi, Mahatma, ed. Louis Fischer.  The Essential Gandhi (Vintage; 2nd edition, 2002).

Excerpt from The Essential Gandhi

Jay Litvin on compassion

 

by Jay Litvin

Pity, sympathy, empathy, compassion. Each is received at various times by one in distress. They are the responses engendered by our misfortunes from those we encounter. And each feels different when received. Each has a different effect on those who are suffering in the midst of psychic or physical crisis.