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The Kindness Box

Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

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Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
"Research has shown time and again that people who give to others, in small and large ways, tend to be happier and live longer. I want to live a long and happy life. How about you?"

~ Lisa Desatnik
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

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Educators from across the U.S. gathered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for “Making Caring Common: Cultivating Kindness and Preventing Bullying in Schools,” a 2-day program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Drawing on 2014 Harvard research that found that 80 percent of youth say their parents care more about their achievements and happiness than about whether they are being kind, the program’s goal was to share strategies for promoting school cultures of caring and for preventing challenging student behaviors like bullying.

Comes from this good news site -

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/kids-teaching-grownups-kindness/

Cheers!
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
"I would like to have engraved inside every wedding band BE KIND TO ONE ANOTHER. This is the Golden Rule of marriage and the secret of making love last through the years."

~ Randolph Ray

Comes from this interesting book review -

Will Glennon and Mary Jane Ryan have put together a collection of meditations, stories, and quotations about the spiritual practice of kindness. Chapters are: Kindness Is an Attitude and an Action, Kindness Begins at Home, Kindness Ripples Out into the World, Kindness Creates Happiness and Peace of Mind, Kindness Generates Love and Compassion, and Kindness Feeds the Body and Soul.

Here it is -

http://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/book-reviews/view/16654/practice-random-acts-of-kindness

:)
 
Buddha Dharma

Buddha Dharma

Dharma Practitioner
I just have a little advice of my own devising this time =)

It's never too late to extend kindness, or to allow yourself to receive it from someone else. The only obstacle there is yourself. In fact, Rumi said something along these lines I like:

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it- Rumi
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Just found this site in my travels -

Last year I wrote a post called 20 random acts of kindness you can do today. A few of my friends commented that they had read the post with their children, so I started thinking of a list with ideas just for young children, acts that they can do on their own. Acts of kindness are a great way to each a child empathy and generosity. So here it is, 20 random acts of kindness for kids:

https://www.eatsleepbe.com/2012/02/20/acts-of-kindness-for-kids/

Also scroll down to more links ...

Such as: How to Raise Socially Responsible Kids
 
sun rise

sun rise

The world is on fire
Premium Member
Geoff-Allen said:
Just found this site in my travels -

Last year I wrote a post called 20 random acts of kindness you can do today. A few of my friends commented that they had read the post with their children, so I started thinking of a list with ideas just for young children, acts that they can do on their own. Acts of kindness are a great way to each a child empathy and generosity. So here it is, 20 random acts of kindness for kids:

https://www.eatsleepbe.com/2012/02/20/acts-of-kindness-for-kids/

Also scroll down to more links ...

Such as: How to Raise Socially Responsible Kids
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I think this is a great idea - starting with children.
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
sunrise123 said:
I think this is a great idea - starting with children.
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Yes - we need to set a good example.

Never got those kind of lessons at school when I was a youngster - only became interested in cultivating kindness & compassion at a more mature age ...

:)
 
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Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Haven't read any of Sharon Salzberg's books ... just received this in my email -

After we do that for a little while, move on, just briefly, to sending loving-kindness to somebody that we have difficulty with. This is a very interesting place because it’s very difficult. It’s a very powerful place because that person, in some ways, symbolizes the difference between love or loving-kindness, which is conditional, and that which is on uncondition that which goes beyond having our desires met, having affection returned, having people treat us well. It is that person that defines the line between that which is finite and that which is infinite. Yet it’s not easy. Very often to think of this person and you enmity, or anger, or fear, whatever. As a suggestion, when we begin that part of the practice, in the spirit of doing it in the easiest way possible, it’s probably better to start with somebody where there’s mild irritation rather than the person who has hurt you most in your life.

For the full article -

https://www.mindful.org/loving-kindness-takes-time-sharon-salzberg/

Have a good one!
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Found a review of one of her books -

Lovingkindness is something that you practice for the benefit of all sentient beings, and it is important to remember that you yourself are one of those beings. The first few chapters of this book will help you to be kind to yourself, understand the benefits of practicing lovingkindess and work on your anger and aversion. If this was where the book ended then it would still be well worth the cover price, but of course lovingkindess extends to others too, so subsequent chapters help you to expand your perspective until you have the same attitude of unconditional love towards everyone. Chapters 7 through 10 of the book focus specifically on developing compassion, sympathetic joy, equanimity and generosity, and then the final chapter Living Our Love wraps everything up beautifully.

For the complete review -

http://www.buddhist-book-reviews.com/metta/lovingkindness

Cheers!
 
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