Remember the Kindness of All Beings | Step 17 of Awakening in 30 Steps

Remember the Kindness of all Mother Beings.

We are sculpting our minds towards industrial strength altruism.

In this series of reflections we are consciously choosing what to focus on. Step 16 recognizes all beings as kin, step 17 remembers their kindness.

Let’s define kindness as the investment of energy others contribute to make the world go round. Let’s also remember that this investment doesn’t have to be one to one with us, we might not be the direct benefactors in an immediate sense, but we certainly are in the ultimate sense.

Now do your contemplation, identifying anything that you enjoy or that sustains you in your immediate environment and the pan out on the “back story” considering how it got there. See there is no end to our interdependence, inter-relationality and the currency of kindness in endless circulation.

When you begin to experience a wave of gratitude for the great kindness of others, juice press.

“My religion is kindness” - His Holiness the Dalai Lama

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