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The essence of how to educate our students



[I have great respect for the Dalai Lama. - Jane]

11/99
MEETING WITH THE DALAI LAMA:

Recently a group met with the Dalai Lama for several days. The meetings
focused on dialoguing what they believed were the 5 most important
questions to be considered moving into the new millennium.

The group were asked to come up with five questions before meeting with the
Dalai Lama. They asked:
How do we address the widening gap between rich and poor?
How do we protect the earth?
How do we educate our children?
How do we help Tibet and other oppressed countries/peoples?
How do we bring spirituality - deep caring for each other - through all
disciplines?

The Dalai Lama said all the questions fall under the last one. If we have
true compassion, our children will be educated, we will care for the earth,
and for those who "have not". He asked the group: Do you think loving on the
planet is increasing or staying the same? His own response was, "My
experience leads me to believe that love IS increasing."

He shared a practice with the group that will increase loving and compassion
in the world, and asked everyone attending to go home and share it with as
many people as possible.

The Practice
1. Spend 5 minutes at the beginning of each day remembering we
all want the same thing (to be happy and loved) and we are all connected.

2. Spend 5 minutes cherishing yourself and others. Let go of
judgments. Breathe in cherishing yourself, and breathe out cherishing
others. If the faces of people you are having difficulty with appear,
cherish them as well.

3. During the day extend that attitude to everyone you meet - we are
all the same, and I cherish myself and you [do it with the grocery store
clerk, the client, your family, coworkers, etc.].

4. Stay in the practice, no matter what happens.

Jane Jackson, Dir., Modeling Workshop Project
Box 871504, Dept.of Physics, ASU, Tempe, AZ 85287
480-965-8438/fax:965-7331. http://modeling.la.asu.edu
Genius must transform the world, that the world may produce more genius.