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LOTUS OF THE HEART
An Interspiritual-Interfaith Work
of The Lotus Fellowship and
Arem Nahariim-Samadhi
Arem, a vowed Contemplative of Greenbough House of Prayer, offers an interspiritual work focusing on cultivating the Heart of Compassion. He integrates wisdom from the major spiritual Paths. To contact Arem, see the email address at the conclusion of this presentation. May you always know you are blessed!
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*Lotus Flower - Lotus Petals, Bahman Farzad, Flickr
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We become compassionate not from altruism which denies the self for the sake of the other, but from the insight that sees and feels one is the other.
*Huston Smith, in Healing Zen, by Ellen Birx.
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Two monks were returning to the monastery. It had rained, and there were puddles of water on the road sides. At one intersection a beautiful, young woman was standing. She was unable to walk across because of a puddle of water. The elder of the two monks went up to her and lifted her in his arms. He left her on the other side and continued to the monastery.
In the evening the younger monk asked the elder monk, "Brother, as monks, we are forbidden to touch a woman?"
The elder monk answered, "Yes, Brother."
The younger monk inquired, "Then, how is that you lifted that woman on the road?"
The elder monk smiled and told him, "I left her on the other side of that puddle of water, but you are still carrying her."
What is the difference between a life based on living always to do the right thing, as determined by a social understanding of morality, and living a life based on spontaneous love and compassion?
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The Sacred in Me bows to the Sacred in You
*Photo, Angelito De Luz
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Namaste'
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