12 steps of a compassionate life

TWELVE STEPS TO A COMPATTIONATE LIFE

TWELFTH STEP

BY KAREN ARMSTRONG

Religious and GlobalizationMAINS – Burenjargal Bombish

2015. 04.01

TWELVE STEPS TO A COMPATTIONATE LIFE

1. Learn about compassion2. Look at your own word3. Compassion for yourself

4. Empathy5. Mindfulness6. Actions

7. How little we know8. How should we speak to one another9. Concern for everybody

10. Knowledge11. Recognition12. LOVE YOUR ENEMY

ANCIENT TEACHINGS ON LOVING ENEMIES MOZI, Chinese philosopher advocated

– Concern for everybody and their best interest- Enemies are human beings

LAOZI, philosopher and poet of ancient Chinese- Violence always recoils upon the perpetrator- You can not force people to behave as you wish- Coercive methods drive them to the exact opposite

The DAODEJING, a manual of statecraft by LAOZI, offered

- Survival strategy that wise ruler- Army is an instrument only when he can do nothing

else

The good leader in war is not warlike

The good fighter is not impetuous

The best conqueror of the enemy is he who never takes offensive

The good man is who treats them with humility

ANCIENT TEACHINGS ON LOVING ENEMIES

SAID BY LAOZI

RELIGIOUS TEACHINGS ON LOVING ENEMIES

Dalai lama- The concept of War is outdated and ignorance would rebound back on you.

Torah: permitted limited realization - An eye for an eye or a tooth for a tooth

Jesus: Love your enemies - Do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you

RELIGIOUS TEACHINGS ON LOVING ENEMIES

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCG4qryy1Dg

GREAT EXAMPLES OF LOVING ENEMIES

Gandhi was no longer hated anybody. “Mine is not exclusive love. I cannot love Moslems or Hindus and hate

Englishmen. For if I love merely Hindus and Moslems

because their ways are on the whole pleasing to me, I shall soon began to hate them when their ways displease me, as they may well do any moment.

A love that is based on the goodness of those whom you love is a mercenary affair.”

After 27 years of confine in South African prison, when Nelson Mandela came to power he initiated process of reconciliation rather than seeking revenge.


“Only goodness can drive out evil and only love can overcome hate “


HATRED vs LOVE

LOVE – LEGAL TERM, stand for TWO SIDES PLEDGED TO BE HELPFUL AND LOYAL AND TO GIVE EACH OTHER PRACTICAL ASSISTANCE AND SUPPORT

LOVE – CONCERN FOR EVERYBODY WILL SERVE OUR BEST

INTEREST BETTER THAN SHORT –SIGHTED AND SELF-SERVING POLICIES.

paralyzes lifeconfuses life

darkens life

releases lifeharmonizes lifeillumines life

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wktlwCPDd94

DOES YOUR ENEMY HAVE A

HISTORY OF OPPRESSION,

EXPLOITATION, EXILE, or PERSECUTION? HAS YOUR NATION CONTRIBUTED TO THIS? FIND OUT MORE ABOUT

THE HISTORY OF YOUR ENEMY.

LISTEN THEIR STORIES: IT

REFLECTS THE INNER MEAING

OF AN EVENTLEARN TO SEE THE SORROW OF OUR ENEMIES

HOW TO LOVE OUR EMENIES???

Discipline – our egotism

Accept their necessity

Understand and Forgive

Wish good for your enemy

Sense of responsibility for your enemy’s pain

Supreme test of compassion


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsC-g5tz-Yk

Compassion and Loving your enemies in different perspective “personal meditation” - SOULspot


QUESTIONS TO YOUR INNER THINKING

1. Do you have enemy?

2. Which nation is your country enemy?

3. Are you ready begin loving them?

4. What is your contribution to love enemies in your country?

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION AND ENGAGEMENT

ANY COMMENS/ QUESTIONS?

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