Dear
friends around the world, The
events of this day cause every thinking person to stop their daily lives,
whatever is going on in them, and to ponder deeply the larger questions of
life. We search again for not only the meaning of life, but the purpose of
our individual and collective experience as we have created it-and we look
earnestly for ways in which we might recreate ourselves anew as a human
species, so that we will never treat each other this way again. The
hour has come for us to demonstrate at the highest level our most
extraordinary thought about Who We Really Are. There
are two possible responses to what has occurred today. The first comes
from love, the second from fear. If we come from fear we may panic and do
things-as individuals and as nations-that could only cause further damage. If
we come from love we will find refuge and strength, even as we provide it
to others. This is the moment of your ministry. This is the time of
teaching. What you teach at this time, through your every word and action
right now, will remain as indelible In
this moment. Let us seek not to pinpoint blame, but to pinpoint cause. Unless
we take this time to look at the cause of our experience, we will never
remove ourselves from the experiences it creates. Instead, we will forever
live in fear of retribution from those within the human family who feel
aggrieved, and, likewise, seek retribution from them. To
us the reasons are clear. We have not learned the most basic human They
are questions that we have failed to answer for thousands of years.
Failure to answer them now could eliminate the need to answer them at all. If
we want the beauty of the world that we have co-created to be experienced
by our children and our children's children, we will have to become
spiritual activists right here, right now, and cause that to happen. We
must choose to be at cause in the matter. So, talk with God today. Ask God
for help, for counsel and advice, for insight and for strength and for
inner peace and for deep wisdom. Ask God on this day to show us how to
show up in the world in a way that will cause the world itself to change.
And join all those people around the world who are praying right now,
adding your Light to the Light that dispels all fear. That
is the challenge that is placed before every thinking person today. Today
the human soul asks the question: What can I do to preserve the beauty and
the wonder of our world and to eliminate the anger and hatred-and the
disparity that inevitably causes it - in that part of the world which I
touch? Please seek to answer that question today, with all the
magnificence that is You. What
can you do TODAY...this very moment? A central teaching in most spiritual
traditions is: What you wish to experience, provide for If
you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another. If you wish to
know that you are safe, cause another to know that they are safe. If you
wish to better understand seemingly incomprehensible things, help another
to better understand. If you wish to heal your own sadness or anger, seek
to heal the sadness or anger of another. Those others are waiting for you
now. They
are looking to you for guidance, for help, for courage, for strength, for
understanding, and for assurance at this hour. Most of all, they are
looking to you for love. My religion is very simple. My religion is
kindness. Dalai
Lama |