Author: Eric Helland

I am because we are

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Ubuntu

An anthropologist proposed a game to children of an African Tribe. He put a basket of fruit near a tree and told the kids that the first one to reach the fruit would win them all. When he told them to run they all took each others hands and ran together, then sat together enjoying the fruits. When asked why they ran like that, as one could have taken all the fruit for oneself, they said, “Ubuntu, how can one of us be happy if all the others are sad?”

UBUNTU is a philosophy of African Tribes that can be summed up as “I am because we are.”

Love and Compassion

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Tenzin Gyatso 14th Dalai Lama

The Dalai Lama’s Book of Love and Compassion

“Genuine compassion is based on a clear acceptance or recognition that others, like oneself, want happiness and have the right to overcome suffering. On that basis one develops concern about the welfare of others, irrespective of one’s attitude to oneself. That is compassion.”
— The Dalai Lama

“Genuine compassion is based on the recognition that others have the right to happiness just like yourself, and therefore even your enemy is a human being with the same wish for happiness as you, and the same right to happiness as you. A sense of concern developed on this basis is what we call compassion; it extends to everyone, irrespective of whether the person’s attitude towards you is hostile or friendly.”
— The Dalai Lama

Compassion and the Individual

The Dalai Lama (videos)