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Compassion: Week 2

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“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion” – Dalai Lama

 

We’ve heard the word “compassion” too often in our lives in various forms and phrases per se:

“Be kind to others”

“Care for the feelings of others”

“Share love and benevolence”

 

Today, I want to focus on practicing compassion on a rather unheeded sect, “Self.”

I know compassion is generally construed as being kind, caring and understanding to the needs and feelings of others but do you believe a broken heart can understand the woes of others?

Well, then let’s move on to find out what exactly is meant by “Self–Compassion.”

“You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection” -Buddha

 

In the never-ending race of our monotonous life, we rarely empathize with ourselves. We remember to do special things for each of our family members but we forget to pamper ourselves. Let me elaborate:

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Terrorism

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I have been quite disturbed by the recent terrorist attacks in different parts of the world. My heart is grieving for those who lost their loved ones in these horrifying and condemning acts of violence, giving birth to some unanswered questions that are reflected in my poem below. I pray to God to give them … Read more

Lead and Save

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The post follows the prompts shared by Colleen’s Weekly Poetry Challenge#32. The challenge is to use the words “lead” and “save” or their synonyms in a haiku/ tanka/ haibun. I have written a haiku with “lead” and “save” and a tanka with “lead” and “liberate” (synonym of “save”).   Haiku devastated world God lead to save His children peace reinstated … Read more

Comprehending Anger

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Lately I have found myself getting annoyed and irked at slightest provocation. Every little thing seems to test my patience. Whether it’s kids messing up their room or my inability to sneak a few hours for blogging, my irritability is resulting in an outburst on one or the other family member. I know, I know, it’s not a good practice. But I am sure this happens with many of us from time to time.

Buddha said, “You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.”

I completely agree with the advice of the wise saint.

Anger causes much damage to our individuality than we anticipate or realize. So, I thought it would be a good idea to understand this unsolicited and frequent guest of ours, Mr. Anger, a little better 🙂

I plan to split this post in two parts as it is likely to be a little lengthy.

Let’s try to tackle Mr. Anger now.

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Managing Your Past

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Our past is responsible to a great extent in shaping our lives- our thought process, our conduct and our attitude. We must understand that life is a mixed bag for everyone. All of us are granted our share of happiness, struggles, pain and success. What we choose ourselves is: how we deal with it? Agony or … Read more