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The Kindness Box

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FineLinen

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Much of the nation's charitable giving occurs between GivingTuesday, the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, and Dec. 31. But the need for help persists all year long.

“For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.

For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.

For a slim figure, share your food with the
hungry.

For beautiful hair, let a child run his fingers through it once a day.

For poise, walk with the knowledge you’ll never walk alone.

"We leave you a tradition with a future.

The tender loving care of human beings will never become obsolete.

People even more than things have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed and redeemed and redeemed and redeemed.

Never throw out anybody.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you’ll find one at the end of your arm.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands: one for helping yourself, the other for helping others." -Sam Levenson-
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

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Volunteer with your kids -

We all know it’s important to get involved with our communities, and especially to teach children the value of volunteering at a young age. Introduce the concept of giving back to your little ones with one or more of these 50 kid friendly volunteering ideas!

50 Kid Friendly Volunteering Ideas

Cheers!
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Kindness is interesting, in that unlike an emotion such as happiness, or a feeling and action like gratitude, kindness is mostly a behavior or action.

Through years of experience, we each have been trained in our thoughts and perspectives of what kindness is, what it means, what the intention behind someone’s kindness is, so that it is often lost what the kind act is.

Comes from this psych site -

Can Random Acts of Kindness Increase Well-Being? (Incl. 22 Ideas)

Enjoy!
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

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Loads more here -

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quote

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Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
My best friend from grade school, Anne Biggers, was in a car accident two months ago while driving in West Texas. She was doing the speed limit in a light rain when her car skidded on an oil spot. She spun out of control, sailed across the median, through a lane of traffic and hit a concrete abutment. Her airbag went off and she survived with just bruises.

Before she even had time to get out of the car, three people pulled over to offer help. One person had already called the highway patrol, and another offered her cell phone so that Anne could call for AAA. Another couple (and their children) actually went with her to get her car repaired at a local repair shop and waited with her until her car was fixed because they knew the shop was in a relatively unsafe part of Abilene.

When Anne told me this story, I was touched by the kindness of these strangers. Yet, though the kindnesses they gave her were inspiring, they were not extraordinary. Human beings are kind to one another, and we sometimes help others at great personal cost.

Read the full-article here -

https://www.authentichappiness.sas.upenn.edu/newsletters/authentichappinesscoaching/kindness

Ciao!
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
As you awaken to your true Divine nature, you stop listening to your ego. You make different choices that are more positive, not driven by fear or greed. You also confront your fears because you realize they’re deliberately placed on your path to be overcome. Finally.

You begin to find like-minded people who also want to make the world a better place. You are each doing what you can to add more kindness and compassion to the world.

With this shift into a higher consciousness, you understand how a simple kind gesture can affect many people. For example, when you open the door for a stranger, it’s likely that person will then do the same thing for others. Your small act of kindness becomes multiplied into many kind actions. You create the same positive effects when you smile at someone or let the driver merge into traffic ahead of you.

Read more at this interesting site -

How to Accelerate Your Awakening | Holz Wellness

Ciao!
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
From the title of a book -

I am trying to engage in a spiritual path. I have met the perfect teachings that will bring me to enlightenment. Still, even though I try to engage in virtue, I am constantly met with obstacles, problems, and difficulties – both internally and externally. During this degenerate time, if I am not able to transform problems into the path of enlightenment, I have no chance. I will easily become overwhelmed by all the challenges. Therefore, in order to attain enlightenment as quickly as possible and not be discouraged by problems, I will do this meditation on transforming problems into happiness, for the benefit of myself and all living beings.

Read the pdf here -

https://kadampa-center.org/sites/default/files/transformingproblemsintohappiness.pdf

Cheers!
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

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Benefit all living beings -

At the beginning of the 100 Million Mani Mantra Retreat in Italy in October, Lama Zopa Rinpoche talked about the need to be free from all suffering—the suffering of pain, the suffering of change, and pervasive compounding suffering—in order to achieve ultimate happiness and liberation. But, this is not enough for us, Rinpoche explained. The purpose of being born human is not to be free from suffering ourselves; the purpose of our human life is to benefit all sentient beings, to free them from all suffering and bring them to peerless happiness, total cessation of obscurations, and completion of realizations.

In this short video clip taken from the October 6, 2017 teaching, Rinpoche talks about this main aim of human life, of the retreat, … of everything.

See this page -

The Purpose of Human Life Is to Benefit All Sentient Beings - FPMT

Much more reading at that site if you have the time ...

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Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
More from Lama Zopa -

Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive has just published The Path to Ultimate Happiness, a new ebook of teachings given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche during the 42nd Kopan lamrim course.

In this book, Rinpoche discusses our potential to bring benefit and happiness, including full enlightenment, to all sentient beings. Rinpoche explains the lamrim, the stages of the path to enlightenment, teaches extensively on emptiness and the good heart, and gives commentaries on sur practice, the Offering Cloud Mantra, and other prayers and practices.

The Path to Ultimate Happiness conveys the spontaneous and intimate quality of Rinpoche’s teaching style and includes many anecdotes from his own experiences. Here’s a short excerpt:

Click below for the full article -

Practicing Kindness - FPMT

Cheers!
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Training the mind in generosity -

It is always a challenge for a Dharma center to balance the wish to benefit all sentient beings with the practical day-to-day needs associated with running a nonprofit organization. Funds are needed not only for the expenses of rent or a mortgage, utilities, and furnishings, but also for holy objects and offerings, practice materials, offerings to teachers, and so forth. Since it is FPMT policy that FPMT centers can charge students only a “facility fee” to cover the practical costs of organizing a teaching but cannot charge for the Dharma, FPMT centers have come up with creative solutions to keep their centers running.

The practice of generosity is fundamental to Buddhism, and it can take many forms. For most students of Dharma, offering money or belongings is a familiar way to practice generosity, or dana in Sanskrit. Many centers have developed methods to skillfully offer students opportunities for practicing generosity that support and align with the center’s efforts to share Dharma.

We invited several FPMT centers to reflect on how they sustain their centers while providing meaningful programs to the public.

Read more -

Training the Mind in Generosity - Mandala Publications

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