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Drawn and re-quartered from Beyond Religion, especially pp. 101-102, "Starting with Oneself"

In Beyond Religion the Dalai Lama offers non-sectarian roots of compassion to motivate global cooperative behaviors and nurture inner mental health values. He begins with the assumption his readers are asking, How and Who are we to become more compassionate, kinder, more forgiving, more health v pathology discerning? Not just in our root passionate intent but in our actual co-invested behavior. We already respond to such questions by educating our health/wealth nondualistic hearts, holding these two Left and Right together, never again apart. We already work to restrain negative behaviors with anger and fear mindful non-mongering non self-marketing anti-predative pro-cooperative management. We already combat and absorb, sublimate and acclimate destructive emotional impoverishing tendencies. We already aspire to cultivate ego-health values, passion, patience, contentment, self-forgiveness for past and future woundedness, peaceful sufficiency of time for compassion's well-being, left and right bicameral discipline toward mutually transparent ego/eco-confluence, and co-operative personal/political generosity, paid forward from one DNA-inspired wealth generation to those healthy co-arising next. Such practice, everyday practice, awareness practices require no special equipment, no sectarian religious or even anthropocentric beliefs, no lack of pro-active commitment to vulnerable transparent universal EarthRooted compassion. Our global and local vocations, across vast seas and on our own thresholds, to live ethically unitarian, egalitarian integrally harmoniously Earth patriotic resiliently resonantly regeneratively with and for all sentient and sensed Others, with a wealthier GoldenRule scent of health becoming co-operative, is already co-passionately practiced practiced practiced independently of any sectarian nature v spirit positive v negative left v right dualistic-dissonant intelligence. Deep natural health and wide spiritual pan-sectarian wealth educating our cooperatively owned and managed DNA integrity infused and still faithfully pumping Elder RightBrain child's holistic autonomic hearts and newer LeftBrain's conscientiously deductive minds already co-invest passionate bilaterally committed time, past through future strings unweaving and reweaving nature/spirit species networking spaces within multiculturally sustained sensory effort. Cooperative integral global health spirited through local resonantly embodied efforts to learn kind-hearted health with wealth-minded integrity So we can all left/right yang/yin intelligently benefit from already enchanting personal/political ego/eco-logical co-passionate Light, co-operative non-sectarian Ways, co-interdependent nature/spirit Truths.

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