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Unitarian Universalists of Southold
The following responsive reading was shared in the service; the remaining texts were largely stories and tales from the world’s religions. For more information about the book the service was based on, check it out here: Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life by Karen Armstrong.
The demands of compassion are daunting – how do we start?
We start step by step.
Step 1, Learn about Compassion. In the words of the Jewish sage Hillel,
What is hateful to yourself, do not to your fellow man. That is the whole of the Torah. The rest is but commentary.
Step 2, Look at your own world. In the words of Confucian philosopher Xun Zi,
Every man or woman in the street can become a force for good.
Step 3, Have compassion for yourself. As the Buddha said,
You can search throughout the universe for someone more deserving of your love than you are yourself, but that person is not to be found anywhere.
Step 4, Have Empathy for Others. As English p
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“Ego is the biggest enemy of humans.”
~ Rig Veda
“The foundation of the Buddha’s teachings lies in compassion,
and the reason for practicing the teachings is to wipe out the persistence of ego,
the number-one enemy of compassion.”
~ H.H. Dalai Lama
In the pursuit of learning every day something is gained.
In the pursuit of Tao, every day something is dropped.
~ Lao Tzu
“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
Q. How much “ego” do you need?
A. Just enough so that you don’t step in front of a bus.
~ Shunryu Suzuki Roshi
“Undo Ego!
Use it to lose it.”
“As ego goes,
consciousness grows,
until it Knows
– Itself.”
~ Ron Rattner, Sutra Sayings
Lau Tzu
Undoing
Undoing
There’s nothing to do
but undo,
Until you’re through and undone.
Then, when nothing’s undone,
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