com·pas·sion (km-pshn) n.
Deep awareness of the suffering of another coupled with the wish to relieve it.
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Sitting in the car on the way home, I'd intended on blogging about something else today. Something trivial, something that was irking me. However, after reading about the Dalai Lama's visit to Canada, my negative energy is all but forgotten. Like so many others, I've been affected by his presence in our country.
And like those many others, I'll probably go back to my selfish ways very soon, but for a short while at least, I've paused to think about who the Dalai Lama is:
He's this person who works tirelessly for peace, a person who is faithful to his religion and who has faith in humans (even the Chinese government that kidnapped the Panchen Lama and continues to oppress Tibetans), a person who inspires not only his own people, or those who follow the same religion, but people of all different backgrounds and experiences to be better people. A person who really is a man of his word.
There can only be one Dalai Lama, but how many people in this world are even remotely like him? I really don't know (and that's a depressing thought), but at least that gives us all a starting point to strive towards.
posted by Sonia @ 12:25 a.m.
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