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Today's
quotation:
The
heart of one person moves another's. If one's own heart
is closed then the doors of other people's hearts will also shut
tight. On the other hand, someone who makes all those around
him or her into allies, bathing them in the sunlight of spring,
will be treasured by all.
Daisaku Ikeda
Buddhism
Day by Day
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Today's
Meditation:
I would like my heart to be full of love and
compassion, so that I can spread both the love and the
compassion to others. My heart is one of the most
important elements of my body-- both the physical heart
that pumps the blood that keeps me alive and the
spiritual/emotional/loving heart that keeps my spirit
alive. My heart is a messenger, and if I keep it
open to love, I can have a loving heart that will help me
to spread the light of love all the time.
Sometimes we close off our hearts because of the fear of
getting hurt. When we do this, we close off our
whole lives to the influences of caring and loving
people. And while we may think that we're protecting
ourselves, we're actually hurting ourselves both by
keeping out wonderful things and not being able to share
and pass on those wonderful things to others.
We need to do what we can to nourish our hearts so that
they can be healthy enough to allow us to pass on love and
compassion. We need to allow our hearts to feel,
even though sometimes those feelings may hurt; pain is
sometimes a necessary part of these lives that we're
living. We need to trust our hearts and the messages
they send us about our own conditions, about other people,
and about how we're doing in this world right here and
right now.
I sincerely want my heart to be loving and caring-- I don't
want it to become hard, to judge others, to be pessimistic
about life in general. If I want to make the world a
better place, I can do so in my own little corner of the
world by having a heart that cares, and that shares that
caring with the living beings all around me. My
heart can be the key to this sharing, if I make sure that
it doesn't harden in defense.
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