Spoken from the Heart: ‘I Welcome Everyone As A Friend’

MakeBeliefs 2 Help U Smile & Lift Your Spirits

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‘’I welcome everyone as a friend.  In truth, we all share the same basic goals; we seek happiness and do not want suffering.’’

I love these beautiful words of greeting spoken by the Dalai Lama to a giant panda, an endangered species, in the book, Heart to Heart: A Conversation on Love and Hope for Our Precious Planet (public library).  In it, the two converse about the fate of the world and our responsibility to deal with global warming and environmental disaster looming over us. 

As reviewed in The Maginalian blog, ‘’Together, they venture out into the wilderness to savor the natural gift of the forest and contemplate the delicate interleaving of life within it. Along the way, the Dalai Lama tells his life-story, laced with his relationship to the natural world — the wild yaks, gazelles, antelopes, and white-lipped deer he encountered on his first journey across Tibet when he was recognized as the next Dalai Lama as a young boy, the comfort he took in the smell of wildflowers after leaving his home, the long-eared owl he watched soar over his first monastery, the mountain foxes, wolves, and lynx roaming the surrounding forest.’’ 

His Holiness says: ‘’Compassion, loving-kindness, and altruism are the keys not only to human development but also to planetary survival.’’

What words do you think are key to planetary survival? Put yourself on record.

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And Now, Some Loving Words from the Buddha

In this comic created at MakeBeliefsComix.com, the late Zen master and peacemaker, Thich Nhat Hanh (someone whom I deeply admire) speaks loving meditation words of the Buddha.  They are taken from the book, Teachings on Love.’’  In this difficult time we live in, we need sorely to hear such words.  What would you add to what Thich Nhat Hanh says? 

Why not create your meditation in digital comic strip format at MakeBeliefsComix.com? To do so, go to: https://makebeliefscomix.com/Comix/  It’ll do you good to do that and will put you in a higher state of mind. That’s what happens when we create.

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