Comments on: What’s your idea of the perfect Kindness Community? http://luminousheart.com/2010/community/ love is your true nature Sat, 23 Apr 2011 17:34:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: Virginia El Foris-Grant http://luminousheart.com/2010/community/comment-page-1/#comment-625 Virginia El Foris-Grant Sat, 23 Apr 2011 17:34:20 +0000 http://luminousheart.com/?p=1248#comment-625 Dear Mahala. I did not hear of you a that why i went in you website to see what new you to share with us. I am Well I hope all the best for you. With love from Virginia. Have a nice days. Dear Mahala.

I did not hear of you a that why i went in you website to see what new you to share with us.
I am Well
I hope all the best for you.
With love from Virginia.

Have a nice days.

]]> By: Melynda http://luminousheart.com/2010/community/comment-page-1/#comment-307 Melynda Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:29:57 +0000 http://luminousheart.com/?p=1248#comment-307 Sign me up for pie duty! And for spinning, and weaving, and broom making . . . the more I play with this metaphor, the more I like it. If there can be World of Warcraft, then surely there can be Dwelling of Kindness! .-= Melynda´s last blog ..<a href="http://melyndahuskey.wordpress.com/2010/01/12/homemade-oreos-for-my-people/" rel="nofollow">Homemade Oreos (for my people)</a> =-. Sign me up for pie duty! And for spinning, and weaving, and broom making . . . the more I play with this metaphor, the more I like it. If there can be World of Warcraft, then surely there can be Dwelling of Kindness!
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]]> By: Mahala Mazerov http://luminousheart.com/2010/community/comment-page-1/#comment-304 Mahala Mazerov Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:06:08 +0000 http://luminousheart.com/?p=1248#comment-304 Hazel ~ Rejoicing in your Mahamudra retreat! So wonderful you were able to make / take that opportunity for yourself. Every being relates to kindness. Yes! It would be wonderful to build, wouldn't it? Please keep sharing your thoughts and insights. A community of kindness needs many virtual carpenters. <3 Mahala Hazel ~ Rejoicing in your Mahamudra retreat! So wonderful you were able to make / take that opportunity for yourself.

Every being relates to kindness. Yes!

It would be wonderful to build, wouldn’t it? Please keep sharing your thoughts and insights. A community of kindness needs many virtual carpenters.

<3 Mahala

]]> By: Mahala Mazerov http://luminousheart.com/2010/community/comment-page-1/#comment-303 Mahala Mazerov Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:48:03 +0000 http://luminousheart.com/?p=1248#comment-303 Stephanie ~ You are a woman of few - and perfect - words. Thank you! Stephanie ~ You are a woman of few – and perfect – words. Thank you!

]]> By: Mahala Mazerov http://luminousheart.com/2010/community/comment-page-1/#comment-302 Mahala Mazerov Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:46:48 +0000 http://luminousheart.com/?p=1248#comment-302 Melynda ~ I love this and it's very concrete! You've just given walls, light streaming windows, and floors to this musing. An imaginary but real place needs some real in it. Then the people have a place to come with their intention and attention. I think some of them are bringing food and pie, too. Melynda ~ I love this and it’s very concrete! You’ve just given walls, light streaming windows, and floors to this musing. An imaginary but real place needs some real in it. Then the people have a place to come with their intention and attention. I think some of them are bringing food and pie, too.

]]> By: Mahala Mazerov http://luminousheart.com/2010/community/comment-page-1/#comment-301 Mahala Mazerov Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:37:53 +0000 http://luminousheart.com/?p=1248#comment-301 MIchael ~ Maybe you already know this. In Buddhism, there is a word "sangha" that means community. It refers to lay and monastic practitioners, and recognizes the importance coming together to support and encourage one another. As connected as we are these days, we're also very much scattered in a sense. Many of us are closer to friends who have moved away and friends we have online than people in our immediate vicinity. (It's easier to find brother-sister mystics online.) I'm mesmerized by the thought of a genuinely communal spiritual life. And, while a Kindness Community could in no way replicate that experience, maybe it would be a source for us as we did our work in the world. A life of kindness, a life lived for the benefit of all beings (or as well as we can strive to achieve that) Is radical. Is revolutionary. Isn't it? How much easier, how much more beautiful if we weren't trying to do it alone? MIchael ~ Maybe you already know this. In Buddhism, there is a word “sangha” that means community. It refers to lay and monastic practitioners, and recognizes the importance coming together to support and encourage one another.

As connected as we are these days, we’re also very much scattered in a sense. Many of us are closer to friends who have moved away and friends we have online than people in our immediate vicinity. (It’s easier to find brother-sister mystics online.)

I’m mesmerized by the thought of a genuinely communal spiritual life. And, while a Kindness Community could in no way replicate that experience, maybe it would be a source for us as we did our work in the world.

A life of kindness, a life lived for the benefit of all beings (or as well as we can strive to achieve that) Is radical. Is revolutionary. Isn’t it?

How much easier, how much more beautiful if we weren’t trying to do it alone?

]]> By: Mahala Mazerov http://luminousheart.com/2010/community/comment-page-1/#comment-300 Mahala Mazerov Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:20:35 +0000 http://luminousheart.com/?p=1248#comment-300 Tracy ~ Stream of consciousness is good! Sacred / intentional space would have to be the ground wouldn't it? And all these other extraordinary qualities -- compassionate mirror, objective witness, kind regard -- would rise from that and make a home there. Do you think people already know how to embody these qualities? Are we just waiting for a community place to BE them? Or does something need to be learned first? Tracy ~ Stream of consciousness is good!

Sacred / intentional space would have to be the ground wouldn’t it? And all these other extraordinary qualities — compassionate mirror, objective witness, kind regard — would rise from that and make a home there.

Do you think people already know how to embody these qualities? Are we just waiting for a community place to BE them? Or does something need to be learned first?

]]> By: Mahala Mazerov http://luminousheart.com/2010/community/comment-page-1/#comment-299 Mahala Mazerov Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:14:03 +0000 http://luminousheart.com/?p=1248#comment-299 Kate ~ I love your descriptions of both Community and Compassion. I appreciate you bringing in the concept of sensitivity, too. So many of us on this path of love and compassion are here because we have sensitive hearts. We want to keep them open. But we also want to learn how to do that skillfully, without being hurt. Wholeness and belonging. Ahhh. Thanks Kate, you've given me many great concepts to consider. Kate ~ I love your descriptions of both Community and Compassion.

I appreciate you bringing in the concept of sensitivity, too. So many of us on this path of love and compassion are here because we have sensitive hearts. We want to keep them open. But we also want to learn how to do that skillfully, without being hurt.

Wholeness and belonging. Ahhh.

Thanks Kate, you’ve given me many great concepts to consider.

]]> By: Mahala Mazerov http://luminousheart.com/2010/community/comment-page-1/#comment-298 Mahala Mazerov Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:07:18 +0000 http://luminousheart.com/?p=1248#comment-298 Becky ~ I see we're very much in the same place. The words evoke something to be sure, but just how to put it into words is hard. I love the idea of a place where people are simply kind to one another. You would hope that would be easy. But since we all do have karmic entanglements :( how can we create a community, a culture if you will, that helps us act in a new way? You keep thinking and I will, too. <3 Mahala Becky ~ I see we’re very much in the same place. The words evoke something to be sure, but just how to put it into words is hard. I love the idea of a place where people are simply kind to one another. You would hope that would be easy. But since we all do have karmic entanglements :( how can we create a community, a culture if you will, that helps us act in a new way?

You keep thinking and I will, too. <3 Mahala

]]> By: hazel colditz http://luminousheart.com/2010/community/comment-page-1/#comment-297 hazel colditz Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:28:47 +0000 http://luminousheart.com/?p=1248#comment-297 mahala - WOW! ...i just got back from a very intensive meditation retreat myself (Mahamudra) and when i received your email to this post...well..."Kindness Community" sits perfectly on/in my heart. no matter w/or w/o faith every being relates to kindness. a community of kindness...wouldn't it be wonderful to build! .-= hazel colditz´s last blog ..<a href="http://www.theasianwelder.com/2009/12/365-days/" rel="nofollow">365 days…</a> =-. mahala – WOW! …i just got back from a very intensive meditation retreat myself (Mahamudra) and when i received your email to this post…well…”Kindness Community” sits perfectly on/in my heart. no matter w/or w/o faith every being relates to kindness. a community of kindness…wouldn’t it be wonderful to build!
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