The world's greatest religions have taught that enlightened individuals show loving kindness towards others.
Here is a two-thousand year old definition of loving kindness:
"Love is patient
Love is kind
Love does not envy
Love does not boast
Love is not proud
Love is not rude
Love is not self-seeking
Love is not easily angered
Love keeps no record of wrongs
Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth
Love always protects
Love always trusts
Love always hopes
Love always perseveres"
Emotional Maturity
The ancients understood that immature individuals found it very hard to show loving kindness. Nevertheless, they believed that emotional maturity was possible:
"When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me."
Our hope is that our community members will strive to show loving kindness in all their interactions with our other members.
History has shown that, if a family or community lacks loving kindness, it ceases to exist.
Loving Kindness
Posted - 02/12/2012 : 02:43:38
