Anger
that is motivated by compassion or a desire to correct social
injustice, and does not seek to harm the other person, is a good anger
that is worth having.
-- The Dalai Lama, "The (Justifiably) Angry
Marxist," Tricycle
A personal blog by a graying (mostly Anglo with light African-American roots) gay left leaning liberal progressive married college-educated Buddhist Baha'i BBC/NPR-listening Professor Emeritus now following the Dharma in Minas Gerais, Brasil.
The
gateway to compassion and lovingkindness is to be able to feel our own
pain, and the pain of others. If we are able to open in this way, our
hearts can melt, and the healing salve of compassion can anoint all our
wounds.
—Lama Palden Drolma, “The Gateway to Compassion”
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