| GESHE KELSANG DAMDUL VISITS THE ABBEY- AUGUST 2006
Geshe Damdul, who is a member of the Sravasti Abbey advisory board, visited the abbey recently. The advisory board is composed on monastics that advise and support Venerable Chodron on issues regarding monastic training and the Vinaya.
The abbey had asked him to teach on compassion and world peace. Geshe Damdul spoke on the increase of greed in many people’s minds throughout the world, and that this harmful attitude encourages violence, oppression and selfishness. This in turn endangers peace, equanimity and harmony both on a local as well as global scale.
He encouraged us all to not feed to nourish these harmful states of mind but to feed and nourish those wonderful basic human qualities of loving kindness, patience and compassion. He challenged Buddhists to get more involved in helping those in need as part of their Dharma practice. It was a wonderful and empowering teaching.
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