Mindfulness Meditation (For Everyday Life)

years has been to practice genocide toward Tibetans,
culturicide toward their institutions, beliefs, and
everything they hold dear, and geocide toward the
very land they live on. When asked about his
apparent lack of anger toward the Chinese by an
incredulous reporter at the time he won the Nobel
Peace Prize, the Dalai Lama replied something to the
effect that: "They have taken every-thing from us;
should I let them take my mind as well?"
This attitude is itself a remarkable display of peace
...the inner peace of knowing what is most
fundamental, and the outer peace of embodying that
wisdom in carriage and action. Peace, and a
willingness to be patient in the face of such enormous
provocation and suffering, can only come about
through the inner cultivation of compassion, a
compassion that is not limited to friends, but is felt
equally for those who, out of ignorance and often
seen as evil, may cause you and those you love to
suffer.
That degree of selfless compassion is based on what
Buddhists call "right mindfulness" and "right
understanding." It doesn't just spring up
spontaneously. It needs to be practiced, cultivated.
It's not that feelings of anger don't arise. It's that the
anger can be used, worked with, harnessed so that