Tag Archives: Dalai Lama

Comfort

Posted on February 20, 2023 by swabby429

Comfort seems to get a bad rap. Life coaches telling us to get out of our comfort zones. I’m even guilty of advising others and myself of this. Yes, I understand that there are different types of comfort. Yet, there … Continue reading →

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Rising By Lifting Others

Posted on March 3, 2020 by swabby429

A big, uncomfortable truth of life is that, deep inside, we don’t wish other people to be happier than ourselves. We skirt this issue because we want to appear magnanimous and good. The best among us want humanity as a … Continue reading →

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Happy Losar

Posted on February 27, 2017 by swabby429

Those of us who observe and practice Tibetan Buddhism, will celebrate Losar the next three days. Losar is the variety of Asian New Year that sometimes shares the same date with Chinese New Year. Tibetan culture is structured around a … Continue reading →

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World Kindness Week

Posted on November 9, 2015 by swabby429

Have you ever noticed that dogs and cats seem to be repelled by meanness and unkindness?  Have you also noticed that they appear to be at ease around people who habitually practice kindness?  In that way, pets can act as … Continue reading →

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Be Kind To Humankind, Another OpEd

Posted on August 26, 2015 by swabby429

As the perpetual US political campaign season has heated up again, I now want to send the bevy of presidential hopefuls into a corner to don dunce caps and take a long time -out.  Every four years, the public is subjected … Continue reading →

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World Kindness Day 2014

Posted on November 13, 2014 by swabby429

One of the political commentators, this Autumn, coined the phrase, “Empathy Deficit Disorder”. (I wish I could have been the person who came up with that line.) Moments after I read the phrase, a wave of pity washed over my thoughts. How awful … Continue reading →

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Tibetan Uprising Day

Posted on March 10, 2014 by swabby429

Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama was brought to the capital city of Tibet, Lhasa, in 1937.  He was only a two-year-old toddler at the time that he was recognized as the latest incarnation in the line of Dalai Lamas.  … Continue reading →

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