We held our January Meditation & Communi-Tea practice yesterday at Yoga Bliss. The last Sunday over every month we will offer students more time to go a little deeper and make new friends. We’re drawing inspiration from Karen Armstrong’s “Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life”. Ms. Armstrong is a best selling author and TED Prize Winner who created and launched the Charter for Compassion.
You can be inspired right now by watching her brief TED plea: “Let’s Revive the Golden Rule.”
Karen spent years researching and studying religious traditions in many parts of the world. In her initial TED presentation, “My Wish: The Charter for Compassion,” she shares her concern that
” . . . we are living in a world . . . where religion has been hijacked. Where terrorists cite Quranic verses to justify their atrocities. Where instead of taking Jesus’ words, “Love your enemies. Don’t judge others,” we have the spectacle of Christians endlessly judging other people, endlessly using Scripture as a way of arguing with other people, putting other people down. Throughout the ages, religion has been used to oppress others, and this is because of human ego, human greed. We have a talent as a species for messing up wonderful things.”
