Wednesday, November 9, 2011

T.D.D. --- Kindness is Society ~ Jeffrey Hopkins

Tricycle Daily Dharma November 9, 2011

Kindness is Society



During a lecture while I was interpreting for the Dalai Lama, he said in what seemed to me to be broken English, “Kindness is society.” I wasn’t smart enough to think he was saying kindness is society. I thought he meant kindness is important to society; kindness is vital to society; but he was saying that kindness is so important that we cannot have society without it. Society is impossible without it. Thus, kindness IS society; society IS kindness. Without concern for other people it’s impossible to have society.
 
– Jeffrey Hopkins, "Equality"

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