Priorities

"To counter anger, you should cultivate love and compassion." Dalai Lama

The older I get the more I find that I resonate to the serenity of Buddhism and the teachings of people like the Dalai Lama. It is amazing that in a crazy world such as ours he can still hold onto the peace that is inherent in his religion. We in the West can certainly learn a lot from our brothers in the East.

It is a supreme irony in our world that when I logged on this morning the "big story" was how pop train wreck Brittany Spears has shaved her head and gotten two new tattoos. Wow that is sure important to know. I must say we have some world shaking news there. What got buried was a "little story" of how 18,000 children die each day as a result of hunger and malnutrition. One-fifth of the world's population suffers from hunger and malnutrition. That is 850 million people and it grows by 5 million people each year.

You really have to worry about a world where the doings of some pop tart who is destroying herself by her own free will is more important then children dying from lack of food through no fault of their own. Where are our priorities? Where is the compassion and love? We need that empathy towards our fellow human beings to make us human. We need to want to help them. Look around you 1/5 of the world is starving to death. We need to do more. If you would take the money you spend in one week on Starbucks super fancy coffee and give it to an organization that provides food for the starving that same money will feeds thousands for a month. Come on one week of the office coffee won't hurt you.

The picture is called Abundance and it is more then time that we who have the ability to eat right give some of that food to those who can't.

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