Sublime

Keeping our hearts open in the face of suffering takes patience and practice. The Dalai Lama himself had to learn how to develop compassion. In Worlds in Harmony: Compassionate Action for a Better World, he says: Whenever I speak about the importance of compassion and love, people ask me: What is the method for developing them? This is not easy…

Joan was raised to embody the qualities inherent in the Western code: self-reliance, optimism, not complaining, giving people space, and claiming your own.

Over the years, he learned to tell stories that suited whoever happened to be in his audience on a given day. For a busload of young cancer survivors, he had tales about wolves, like Limpy, who had managed to overcome their disabilities and thrive.

the following interview describing the passing of His Holiness Rangjung Rikpe Dorje, the sixteenth Gyalwang Karmapa, in 1981 in a cancer hospital in Zion, Illinois.

Once a person becomes an elder, they have lived long enough to have witnessed at least three generations of elders before them; the elders of their youth, the elders of their adolescence, and the elders of their adult lives. Therefore, they have an extensive amount of knowledge, history, and cultural value to share with the community.

It was not until the monks Eisai (1141–1215) and Dogen (1200–1253) returned from their pilgrimages to temples in China that Zen started to catch the imagination of the Japanese.