September 2011 News Posts (22)

We're launching the campaign for the Palm Springs Charter for Compassion at the City of Palm Springs annual Sustainability Summit on Oct 12, 2011. The new website is:…

Seattle people: Spread the word....

VOTE for Marty McLaren, School Board Position #6

MartyMcLaren for Seattle School Board

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More thoughts on compassion by the citizens of Davis, California USA from the corner of 3rd and C:

Compassion: Watching my wife give a homeless man my Cheese Danish.

Compassion is realizing that others are part of the same whole as oneself and wanting the best for that whole.

Compassion: Means empathising with people and their diverse experience. Being caring and understanding of others, their feelings and perspectives, and enlisting that…

The Compassion Wars are here and they’re ugly.  The loud cheering about health insurance and booing of gay soldiers is chilling. This is not the generous hearted spirit of America at its best.  Where is the compassion that leads to hearts cracked open to discovering our common humanity and oneness with one another?

Self-compassion is a journey that leads to compassions for others.  I’ve come to believe that we are each hard wired for compassion. So how does that square with what I…

Mature, responsible woman with school-aged child seeks month-to-month housing.... house-sitting, house-sharing, short-term sublet



South Capitol Hill, Wedgwood, Greenlake/Greenwood, North Seattle, Lake Forest Park



From beginning of October...



Able to pay between $500-800/month, depending on the space/amenities...



Very left-leaning, social justice activist, environmentally aware ... spiritually eclectic...



Works from home... child is…

My fellow activists in the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the UK and everywhere....

I recommend that we all put our different foci aside for now,…

Because compassion "on all levels" is the only purpose of all our practices, we rejoice in offering these teachings as a gift to our community: Compassion On All Levels, complete teachings byLama Tharchin Rinpoche, Honolulu, Hawaii, July 2011. Translation Lama Dechen Yeshe Wangmo, 3 hrs 26 min.

Downloads:

Part 1

http://www.divshare.com/download/15592526-095

part 2…

News article from UC Berkeley discussing studies on empathy, compassion, and kindness.

http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/12/08_survival_of_kindest.shtml

Members of the Nottingham-based In Kind group did their second Random Acts of Kindness event last week at the Headstock music festival in Newstead, a small town on the outskirts of Nottingham.

This was in support of getting signatures for the Charter for Compassion and for the pledge to make Nottingham a City of…

Members of the Nottingham-based In Kind group did their second Random Acts of Kindness event last week at the Headstock music festival in Newstead, a small town on the outskirts of Nottingham.

This was in support of getting signatures for the Charter for Compassion and for the pledge to make Nottingham a City of Compassion.

A good time was had by all.

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Brian Swimme looks at compassion from a big bang/Darwinistic/evolutionary standpoint as a way to avoid another historical planetary catastrophe. Unique insights into the history of everything.

http://www.enlightennext.org/magazine/j19/swimme.asp?page=2

Next Tuesday, Sept. 20, during the meeting of the Human Rights Commission (HRC) Charter for Compassion will be presented by Jena Turner (assistant to Steven Shankman, the UNESCO Chair in Transcultural Studies), Ann Cole (Beyond War), Veena Howard (adjunct professor at the U of O and writing her doctoral thesis on Mahatma Gandhi), and myself (Eugene City of Peace).

We will each have 3 minutes for public comment, during which I will ask the HRC…

This 9/11, HeartBrain Media enjoyed a table exhibit at One the Event. I couldn't miss this for many reasons and on many levels. Here's what the day was about in the event's own words:



9/11’s anniversary represents a monumental call to realize our shared humanity, and collectively we are answering it. ONE: The Event’s mission is to provide collective healing of the past and inspire Solutions,…

Hello, Compassioneers!

It is my pleasure to invite you to join the Networks of Faith, Spirit and Action on CAN at http://my.compassionateactionnetwork.com/group/nicocan  -  as we begin to reflect on the events of 2011 that included the Interfaith Community Celebration, the Interfaith Seder, The Interfaith Leadership Summit, community dialogues on the intersections of faith and politics with our…

anyone hear about this book, read it, or plan to read it? from the reviews, sounds like a great read to see how compassion must be included into current mainstream economic "theory."

http://www.amazon.com/Economics-Unmasked-Power-Compassion-Common/dp/1900322706

The attempt to silence His Holiness the Dalai Lama is an exercise in futility akin to trying to block the flow of eternal spiritual truths. Yet this is what the government of South Africa is trying to do. Their refusal to grant him a visa to give a lecture in Cape Town in honor of his friend Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s eightieth birthday is ironic at best and, at worst,  hostile to free speech and religion.

     These two iconic human beings are honored in much of the world for their…