When we genuinely wish another person wellness and happiness we are creating the seeds of good Karma and the seeds of Peace and Happiness. Just think! – and I know this may seem a little far fetched but worth contemplating – if every person in the world took just ten minutes to wish another person Happiness and Wellness then for ten minutes this world would be crime and violence free for those ten minutes!
The Kindness Cards and Wish Cards are ways by which we can sow seeds of peace and create seeds of Good Karma in our lives. I just love watching the face of somebody light up like just-switched-on-Christmas-tree lights when I give them a Wish Card or Kindness Card with a beautiful Peace Butterfly on it.
The gift of Happiness is one of the most precious gifts we are able to give another and even more when another contemplates what has just happened to them and then wants to pass on the gift to yet other people. This is at the heart of the Mindfulness Meditation of Tonglen. In Tonglen we become Mindful of the suffering, pain, disappointment and despair of others and cause this dissolve our self-cherishing/ego nature – a bit like an effervescent soluble aspirin dissolving in a glass of water. Then we imagine ourselves to be a Wishing Jewel wishing the causes and conditions of happiness for others. For a split moment when we take on the suffering of another and become the wishing jewel we dissolve another piece of the self-cherishing part of ourselves which locks us into our own cocoon of despair and unhappiness. The Peace Butterfly in this Mindfulness process becomes an apt symbol.
The T’ai Shen Centre will send you packs of Peace Butterflies on Kindness and Wishing Cards. Your own kindness in offering us a gift in return continues to turn the wheel of universal Peace and Happiness for all and at the same time enable us to reach out to poorer rural Chinese children in need of education. Sow some seeds of Peace and Good Karma today.
I wish you deep Happiness.
Peace Butterfly Kindness Cards and Wish Cards can be obtained from:
http://www.taishendo.com/Peace-Butterfly-Project.html
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