lama Surya Das - The Power of One

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The Power of One
Lama Surya Das

• One allegedly violent 19-year-old boy pretty much
  shut down our fine city of Boston last Friday.
  Not to mention the terrible damage he and another
  are believed to have wrought on innocent lives
  near the marathon finish line on Monday. Now four
  young people are dead and scores injured as
  result of the bombing suspects' actions.

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Why? Will we ever really know? As authorities are
working to get to the bottom of this, and prevent
similar possible future crimes, let's together
strive to get to root causes and origins of our
violent society and era, and genuinely do
something about it. As our city and surrounding
suburban towns were in lockdown, forcing us to
hide in our homes and stay off the streets, while
the suspect(s) were intensely pursued, I was
praying, meditating, counseling people, and
holding the victims in my heart. This lockdown is
something I have never experienced in this
lifetime, even in the Indo-Pakistani War -- with
blackouts every night -- or when I lived in India
under Indira Gandhi's national state of
emergency. What can be learned from this moment?
I believe this troubled time calls on us to open
our minds and hearts to the innumerable
connections we share with others -- in our
families, communities, social systems, and on our
planet -- and strive to understand what it means
to be human now, and why it's imperative that we
concern ourselves with the well-being of all
others.
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The power of one is inconceivable let's harness
this strength and energy by empowering ourselves
and each other to assume the high road of
altruism, peacemaking, collaboration and
lovingkindness in action. We are all first
responders for someone. Let's remember the power
of one. For more by Lama Surya Das, click
here. For more on wisdom, click here. Visit his
website at www.surya.org. For more information
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