I love the wise and loving essence expressed here by the Dalai Lama. We humans all fall somewhere on a continuum of being very divided, fragmented, and split off from connectedness with others and our own hearts and wholeness on the one end, and integrated, authentic, aligned with our values, and conscious of and connected with the Sacred that is woven through ourselves and all of life on the other. We all fall somewhere on this continuum of being more or less awake. This is humbling and a profound gift to know and experience. I imagine a world where more and more of us will recognize how it is that we have become wounded in life, how it is that we have become divided. And that this awareness, this awakening will move us to seek healing and wholeness. Just imagine...
Bless us all ~ Molly
At the end of his talk, someone from the audience asked the Dalai Lama, “Why didn’t you fight back against the Chinese?” The Dalai Lama looked down, swung his feet just a bit, then looked back up at us and said with a gentle smile, “Well, war is obsolete, you know ” Then, after a few moments, his face grave, he said, “Of course the mind can rationalize fighting back…but the heart, the heart would never understand. Then you would be divided in yourself, the heart and the mind, and the war would be inside you.”
Art Credit: Phil Borges, Dalai Lama
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