Comment from UTT:
The following article about the Dalai Lama explains that his purpose in spending so much time in meditation is to promote compassion as the key to making planet earth a better place. This would mean working together with leaders of all religions in a cooperative effort.
This is very interesting in light of the fact that Pastor Rick Warren is holding a conference at Saddleback August 16, 2008 titled "Saddleback Civil Forum on Leadership and Compassion."
Further, in an article we posted July 21 titled "McCain, Obama to Appear Together at California Megachurch", the following statement was made:
"In conjunction with the Civil Forum event, Warren will convene an interfaith meeting with about 30 Christian, Jewish and Muslim leaders to discuss joint projects that can benefit all Americans."
Notice the interesting common denominator with the two plans - the Dalai Lama's plan and Rick Warren's plan - working together with all religions to benefit all.
Of course, there is nothing wrong with having compassion for others - however, uniting together with other religions for a common cause to make the world a better place, may well end up being a slippery slope that will someday lead to the union of the religions of the world for the cause of peace that will eventually bring about sudden destruction by the Prince of Peace (Jesus).
July 27 - Dalai Lama preaches compassion, responsibility
Article: One World Religion
What does
compassion and global responsibility
really mean to you? To the Dalai
Lama, they are
inextricably bound to his life, his
religion and his future legacy.
For years, people have asked him
exactly what he is meditating on.
And for years, he has given them a
one-word answer that is a primary
tenet of Tibetan Buddhism:
compassion
Yet the word
“compassion” for the Dalai Lama has
come to symbolize something more
than mere altruism on a local scale,
but rather, on
a global scale.
He then began to speak about
his idea of global responsibility,
which, he believes, begins not with
laws or legislation, but with
changing our fundamental view of the
world.
“Our basic
feeling of self and desire for
happiness is the same,” he
said. “If you
look at the world from space, you
see one globe. There are no real
boundaries. There is too much
emphasis on secondary differences —
religion, nationality, ethnicity. On
a basic level, we are the same. We
forget basic humanity.”
This concept
of universal similarities among
humans, according to the Dalai Lama,
must guide how we act on a global
level. For example, he proposed the
idea of the Americas joining
together with a sense of unity, and
the same for Europe.
“You have to consider your neighbor
not foreign, but part of yourself,”
he explained.
Moreover, the Dalai consistently
harped on the
importance of dialogue in terms of
solving international disputes.
This, of course, is a message that
he has been preaching to Chinese for
more than 50 years in terms of
opening a discussion about the
future of Tibet. “The 21st century
is a century of bloodshed,”
he said. “This should be a
century of dialogue.”
Fittingly, the Dalai Lama reminded
the audience that
change,
compassion and global responsibility
begin with individuals, not just
with the Dalai Lama.
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