{"id":18420,"date":"2013-05-18T20:10:09","date_gmt":"2013-05-19T01:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=18420"},"modified":"2013-05-18T20:10:09","modified_gmt":"2013-05-19T01:10:09","slug":"his-holiness-was-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=18420","title":{"rendered":"His Holiness Was Here"},"content":{"rendered":"

We all filed into the UNO Arena today to hear His Holiness the Dalai Lama speak to us New Orleanians about resilience – um, we know a little about it already and I, know a lot about it, but I wanted his perspective. <\/p>\n

And he didn’t disappoint. He’s got a simple message – compassion, love and kindness, and save the planet, peace not war, and humor. <\/p>\n

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Asked what to do with children that have been victims of abuse, he wondered aloud if there was a neuroscientist that might figure out a way to cut that part of memory out of the child’s brain. But seriously he said, a child needs someone there, a caretaker, to give them steady affection and having this, the child builds trust, and having trust, the child learns affection and to be affectionate. And if the world is about love – and love requires trust – then this is the anecdote to such horror. <\/p>\n

Two quotes that came through loud and clear to this resilient woman were:<\/p>\n

Question: How do you remain positive in the face of so many problems?
\nAnswer: Frankly, there is no other choice.<\/p>\n

“Peace is not obtained through prayer, peace is obtained through action.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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