We Set a Trap and Caught Ourselves in It
I sometimes say in sermons that the church is in need of a reformation more radical than anything Luther or Calvin could have imagined…
Art can also help us understand unthinkable things like the elemental nature of water, wind, fire and earth. We are born out of these elements and rituals can help us feel these elements are deeper within us than our thoughts. Thought can analyze the elements, but art can feel their qualities…
— Jim Rigby
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“When I was young, I had no education, but I did have this natural feeling of sorrow and compassion. Then I was recognized as the Karmapa and put on a throne, but when I think back to the genuine, unfabricated feeling I had as a child, in some ways it surpasses the compassion I can have now. I really appreciate the compassion I had then. Children, especially young ones, have an innate capacity for genuine love and kindness. We can see that when one child is crying, another starts crying too, because they recognize the feeling and naturally sympathize with it. In this way our sympathy can extend to all living beings. This does not have to do with whether we recognize ourselves as spiritual or not; it is an inborn part of being human.”
~17th Karmapa
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