Compassion

This is a picture of Macy from this weekend....the hip hop instructor is behind her.
I love how this one turned out...hope you do too.
hope you like the quote below also....I have this yoga dvd called Power to the Peaceful yoga (which I love) and Sharon Gannon says so many wise things during the yoga session that make me want to live my life in a more positive way.....like her quote below.
Namaste,
Michele


"When one can feel happiness for those who are happy,
compassion for those who are suffering,
joy for those who are virtuous,
and indifference toward those who are wicked,
then one will achieve steadiness of mind."
-Sharon Gannon

...and did the monks get mad???

wow what if everyone reacted this way?....to stay in such a place of balance..nothing is permanent....don't grasp and try to hold on to the past....what lessons..Have a great day!
Love, Michele

Toddler's dance destroys monks' intricate sand painting

By MATT CAMPBELL
Talk about a test of faith.
Eight Tibetan monks spent two days cross-legged
on the floor at Union Station, leaning over to
meticulously create an intricate design of colored
sand as an expression of their Buddhist faith.
They were more than halfway done.
And then, within seconds, their work was
destroyed by a toddler. Monks are bald,
so they couldn’t rip their hair out.
But were they angry? Did they curse?
No. They simply smiled and started over.
“No problem,” said Geshe Lobsang Sumdup,
leader of the group from
the Drepung Gomang Monastery in southern India.
“We didn’t get despondent,” he said Wednesday
through a translator. “We have three days more.
So we will have to work harder.”
That the monks were able to shrug off their
setback can be attributed to their religion.
“It teaches us that nothing is permanent,”
said Staci Olsen, a volunteer at
the Rime Buddhist Center in Kansas City.
Sometime Tuesday after the monks
had finished their labors for
the day a woman with her small
child visited the post office inside
Union Station, near where the
design was being created.
The child, apparently attracted by the pretty colors,
wandered over to play with it.
“He did a little tap dance on it,
completely destroying it,”
said Lama Chuck Stanford of the Rime center.
The mother did not report the incident,
but a security camera at Union Station captured the moment.
“She summarily picked the child up and boogied,” said Bob Smock, security manager for the station.

Jampa Tenzin, one of the monks
who can speak a little English,
said this was the first time on
this tour a mandala in progress
had been destroyed. But the monks
know the child was innocent.
“They have meditated so long
they have developed this equanimity,”
Stanford said. “Regardless of what happens
— if a kid dances on your sand mandala
— it’s OK. If everybody in the world
had that kind of stability of mind we’d be better off.”