[Buddha-l] Persecution in modern Colorado?

[d f tweney]

Piya--

In raising money to help the wife and family of the gunman, the Amish 
families were not forgiving those who had hurt them. They were helping 
fellow sufferers -- people who, like them, had been deeply hurt and had 
lost a family member. There is a big difference. One is forgiveness. The 
other is compassion. Both may be spiritual values, but I think even a 
Unitarian could tell the difference between the two.

take care,

--dylan.

On Thu, 5 Oct 2006, Piya Tan wrote:
>
> Forgiving those who have harmed or hurt us is a great way of practising
> spirituality, whatever it is called.
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>
> Compassion is giving others a hand even when they do not deserve it. May I
> find practising even half as easy as writing this. No wonder we have only
> one Buddha in a world system.

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