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It is imposible to build one's own happiness on the unhappiness of others." (This perspective is at the heart of buddhist teachings.)
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| Daisaku Ikeda |
President, Soka Gakkai International |
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Compassion is not religious business,
it is human business,
it is not luxury,
it is essential for our own peace and mental stability,
it is essential for human survival.
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What ails most of them, and what has ailed them most of their lives, is that they lack curiosity. They have never engaged themselves strongly in anything. The waters of life have washed over them without anything soaking in. They are not interesting when old because they were never interesting when young.
Curiosity... is the greatest preservative and the supreme emollient. Enthusiasm. Zest. That's what makes old age... a delight. One has see...
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Robertson Davies
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robertson_Davies
from wikipedia:
William Robertson Davies was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. He was one of Canada's best-known and most popular authors, and one of its most distinguished "men of letters", a term Davies is variously said to have gladly accepted for himself and to have detested.[1] Davies was the founding Master of Massey College, an elite graduate residential college associated with the University of Toronto. |
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When Tao is lost, Compassion becomes doctrine,
when Compassion is lost, Justice becomes doctrine,
when Justice is lost, Ritual becomes doctrine.
Ritual is the slow loss of loyalty
and the beginning of unprincipled confusion.
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| Lao T'zu |
born approx. 600 b.c. in China, or may be entirely apocryphal.
See Lao T'se wiki |
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