Learning how to do meditation is a much better option than learning how to grow into an adult prone to violent behavior
As we are slowly moving towards the end of 2016, spending the days of the final three months of it, we have come to realize that the whole world is much transformed. Within a blink of an eye, it is even hard to follow through all the news and all the information. Constant riots, unrest, ongoing wars on the Middle East and humanitarian crisis at dozens of countries around the globe – that’s the every day reality we are all able to witness.
It is a world that will easily leave you with mixed feelings, moreover with many questions about what is currently really happening at the world level, and with humanity. You will be right to affirm that the times really are changing. As some things are changing for the worst at the moment, others are for the good, we must remember that the only way for humanity to thrive is by learning how to live in co-existence.
We all have tremendous inner potentials we personally need to discover
Where is the source of such great aggression that make people wander, be lost in life, and even engage in acts of crime, extremism and terrorism. Instead of strengthening our bonds and discovering our inner selves, why we are taking the wrong direction?
The Eastern teachings have given a wondrous gift to the humanity as a whole, a gift much more powerful than a prayer or a vague hashtag, but a method to enable everybody to embark on a journey of a personal discovery.
Would all unrest in the world stop then, if just each and everyone would sit down for 10 minutes per day to do some meditation exercises; close their eyes and seek the answers that are locked within their heart and mind? To ask: What is my real mission on this planet? What are my real talents and potentials? What do I really want to do with my life? What is the path I must take and what are the choices I need to consider in order to grow into a better version of myself?
Hardly the answers would be to take a gun and do a massive shooting in some school, or organizing an act of terrorism in Paris, Brussels or Istanbul.
This leads us to an earlier intriguing statement of the Dalai Lama, that he went on to address just shortly after the Paris Attacks in November 2015. The Tibetan spiritual leader have claimed that humanity bears part of the responsibility for the emergence of global terrorism. Hence, the praying to God for a solution, and using the hashtag of the likes of #PrayforParis won’t do much help.
It was in a way powerful message to humanity, where he said: “Let us work for peace within our families and society, and not expect help from God, Buddha or the governments.”
Please check out our site for a full video of what the Dalai Lama had to share as well as read the full article.
Prepare to be inspired.