#WithCompassion - Happy Birthday to the Dalai Lama!


 While it sometimes seems that the world is falling apart, we are thrilled and privileged to have a messenger of hope and peace in our midst this week.

The Dalai Lama's 80th birthday brought together 18,000 followers and a group of friends yesterday at the Honda Center in Anaheim to kick off the Southern California event series in his honor.
His one and only wish: that we all live #withcompassion.
  




It is impossible to imagine another personality that would be able to bring together a group of friends and admirers this diverse. Anne Curry introduced speakers that included Buddhist scholar Robert Thurman, oceanographer Walter Munk and several Peace Nobel Prize winners as well as actress Julia Ormond, comedian George Lopez, MC Hammer and American Idol's Randy Jackson! Just to name a few! But the highlight yesterday afternoon at Honda Center was His Holiness, the Dalai Lama himself. He urged us to take action since, as he put it, meditation is good but on its own will not bring about positive change.
The Dalai Lama has hope to see a more peaceful world in his lifetime, as he said jokingly, within the next 20 years.

He said: "We all come from our mother. We all have the deep experience, we all appreciate the mother's reaction. Some, also including the so-called terrorists... they also have the potential to develop compassion. Some of the people who utilize hatred... If we express (a) message of love, message of compassion, then these people... they realize peace is the only way for (the) survival of humanity."


Please participate and share his video with the hashtag #withcompassion.

In a time of political and economic turmoil he still brings us hope.
I am truly inspired.

According to our calendar, his birthday is today!

Happy Birthday, His Holiness!
#withcompassion!

Janet

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