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Can The World's Religions Be A Harmonious Force? A Conversation With Karen Armstrong: In 2008, Karen Armstrong won a TED Prize and started the Charter for Compassion. The project aims to unite the religions of the world as a "force for harmony." That means embedding the Golden Rule as the core value of religious doctrine. Why is this so important now? If the effort succeeds, what outcome does Armstrong anticipate? What will it take to unite the religions of the world toward a common goal?
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My grandfather was compulsively compassionate. As a child, I remember this quiet and gentle soul, offering love, understanding and a helping hand, to whomever he came across. Thieves and con men were no exception. When his family objected, he smiled and offered compassion anyway. Compassion was a trait at the center of his being.
When I started the Ali Hasan Mangi Memorial Trust in his memory in 2008, the aim was to create a model village in his ancestral hometown of Khairo Dero, a village in southern Pakistan. A model that could be replicated elsewhere in turning poverty-stricken and forgotten rural hamlets into habitable places; complete with access to clean water, a sanitation network, housing for all, education, income-generating opportunities, and health-care services.
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Scope and Method of Study: Conceptualizations of the construct of empathy have varied with differing methods used to examine it. Based on discordant findings in previous research on self-reported empathy and behavioral measures of empathy, the current study tested the hypothesis that self-reported and behavioral measures are significantly positively correlated with one another. Neurotypical undergraduate students completed self-report measures of empathy (Interpersonal Reactivity Index; Delete the scoop?
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if you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. ~Dalai Lama
I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives. I’m not talking about the short-term gratification of pleasures like sex, drugs or gambling (though I’m not knocking them), but something that will bring true and lasting happiness. The kind that sticks.
The key to developing compassion in your life is to make it a daily practice.
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The Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), one of the largest Muslim organizations in North America, has been chosen to implement the Charter for Compassion.
The announcement was made by the Charter for Compassion network during ISNA annual convention in Washington last week. Delete the scoop?
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Muna Awad is Programs Director at the Charter for Compassion-Jordan. She has 15 years of experience working in education as teacher, trainer and private tutor. She worked as head of department for training youth. Muna developed creative positive parenting tools: “Mother’s ToolBox” to help parents creatively overcome the challenges they face raising their children and be able to inspire them to become better people. She feels education is the best way to build a culture of empathy and compassion. Delete the scoop?
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When Karen Armstrong visited Vancouver for 12 Days of Compassion, she brought with her a very powerful message: we all have the tools to make this world a more compassionate place. Delete the scoop?
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The Seattle-based group Compassionate Action Network International is hosting events around Western Washington this week for people of all ages and faiths. The events feature a number of authors, leaders and experts aimed at helping spread compassion around the world, one person at a time.
Award-winning author Karen Armstrong, who created the Charter for Compassion with input from people around the globe using one shared website, joined Margaret to talk about what it truly means to be compassionate and why it's so important to spread compassion around the globe now more than ever. Delete the scoop?
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It's a common admonishment heard from the lips of parents and teachers around the world: "How would you feel if he/she did that to you?" It's the golden rule in the negative. Erin Henry, a Charter for Compassion activist in Canada, decided to change the reprimand into a celebration and re-crafted the Charter into language for children. Compassion means to feel what others are feeling - especially when they are feeling pain or sadness. Compassion is inside of all of us. It doesn't matter if you are a girl or a boy, how old you are, what country you live in, where or if you worship, or the color of your skin. We can all show compassion for others. Delete the scoop?
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When the Charter for Compassion was launched in November 2009, I didn't know that by 2012 more than 85,000 people would have affirmed it online or that we would have 150 active partners around the world. I did know that if we were to make the Charter something more than a call to action, we'd have to come up with practical, sustainable, creative and realistic ways to bring compassion back to the center of our world consciousness.
We've made great strides in a surprising number of areas. Delete the scoop?
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The Charter for Compassion is an open and collaborative effort. In Fall 2008, people of all nations, all faiths, all backgrounds, submitted their own words for inclusion in the Charter. Delete the scoop?
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The Keene Public Library will be hosting a special reading group to study Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life by Karen Armstrong. The first meeting of the group will be held Tuesday Feb. 28 at 7 p.m.
The Keene Public Library is one of 30 librarys to receive a $2,500 grant from the American Library Association (ALA) and the Fetzer Institute to host a year-long series of programs “Building Common Ground: Discussions of Community, Civility, and Compassion,” which is part of a a national initiative to enhance the quality of life and learning within the community through a series of library programs. This is just one in a number of civic engagement initiatives tailored specifically to engage the Keene community Delete the scoop?
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"The principle of compassion lies at the heart of all religious, ethical and spiritual traditions, calling us always to treat all others as we wish to be treated ourselves. Compassion impels us to work tirelessly to alleviate the suffering of our fellow creatures, to dethrone ourselves from the centre of our world and put another there, and to honour the inviolable sanctity of every single human being, treating everybody, without exception, with absolute justice, equity and respect. Delete the scoop?
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I was born, raised and trained as an empath. When I tell people this they usually react the same way “Prove it.” I hate that. I usually want to respond with “Well then, I can tell you are a skeptical person that believes in nothing unless shown Scientific “proof”. What ever happened to trusting your “gut feeling“? For me, that gut feeling is called Empathy and its a pain in the ass. I hate having to educate people on something they already believe is not true or real.Its about the same as me turning to you and saying “Wind isn’t real unless you can show it to me.” Delete the scoop?
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Empathy has for a long time, at least since the eighteenth century, been seen as centrally important in relation to our capacity to gain a grasp of the content of other people's minds, and predict and explain what they will think, feel, and do; and in relation to our capacity to respond to others ethically. In addition, empathy is seen as having a central role in aesthetics, in the understanding of our engagement with works of art and with fictional characters. Delete the scoop?
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Back in 2008, Karen Armstrong, a religion scholar gave a TED talk. In it, she proposed a movement by multi-faith, multi-national groups which would promote compassion worldwide by activating the Go... Delete the scoop?
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I wanted to share with you some thoughts sparked in me this morning by an excerpt from a speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. As I prepare to teach a course on self-compassion, this passage jumped out at me as profoundly wise:
The nonviolent [compassionate] approach does not immediately change the heart of the oppressor. It first does something to the hearts and souls of those committed to it. It gives them new self-respect; it calls up resources of strength and courage that they did not know they had. Finally, it reaches the opponent and so stirs his/[her] conscience that reconciliation becomes a reality. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Meg Lyons is Executive Officer of the Charter for Compassion in Pakistan. Meg talked to us via her laptop while being driven through the streets of Karachi, Pakistan at night. It really brought home the power of communications technology to bring people together.
The Charter of Compassion is a cooperative effort to restore not only compassionate thinking but, more importantly, compassionate action to the center of our lives. Our programs, tools, and activities allow our stakeholders and partners the opportunity to explore the value of collaboration, empathy, and compassion within their own respective entities, and institutionalize these positive changes across all sections of society. Delete the scoop?
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"The historian has helped world religions unite behind a single principle. But can a worldwide charter for compassion become more than just a nice idea?
Heidi Bruce: One of the things that YES! Magazine covers is how to better bridge divides between seemingly opposed groups. What role can media play in helping people with very different beliefs engage one another in a productive manner?
aren Armstrong: I think the media has a huge role to play—and has to take quite a responsibility for some of the more divisive aspects in our culture..."
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I am convinced that the only way to achieve a peaceful, just and sustainable world is to implement the Golden Rule globally, treating all people - whatever their ethnicity or ideology - as we would wish to be treated ourselves. If we want a viable world, we all have to become activists in our particular field....
Ultimately, the choice is ours. We can either emphasize those aspects of our traditions that are dismissive, cruel and intolerant of others or we can look to our traditions – religious or secular -- for those traditions that speak of compassion, empathy and respect. We know what will happen if we don’t choose the later. Compassion is not an option; it’s a key to our survival.
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Can The World's Religions Be A Harmonious Force? A Conversation With Karen Armstrong: In 2008, Karen Armstrong won a TED Prize and started the Charter for Compassion. The project aims to unite the religions of the world as a "force for harmony." That means embedding the Golden Rule as the core value of religious doctrine. Why is this so important now? If the effort succeeds, what outcome does Armstrong anticipate? What will it take to unite the religions of the world toward a common goal?
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Has an act of compassion changed your life? Share your story — and join the Charter for Compassion in a brand-new video initiative: Assignment Compassion.
In the video above, actor Adrian Grenier gives the first assignment: Share a moment of compassion that changed your life.
Record your video response to Adrian’s assignment and share it on our Facebook wall. You can share the assignment with friends and family too. Delete the scoop?
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-Presents International Call to Action --Revamped CharterForCompassion.org Will Feature News, Stories from Around the World, and Activism Resources
Karen Armstrong, the world-renowned religious scholar, author, historian, and former Catholic nun, today announced the re-launch of CharterForCompassion.org- the online home of the rapidly growing Charter for Compassion movement. The new site will feature resources for activists, news, and stories of compassion from around the world--coming from places as diverse as Kentucky and Pakistan. The aim is to create a platform for compassionate news, an incubator for compassionate ideas, and a hub for compassionate action to accelerate the pace of change in society. Delete the scoop?
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Author Karen Armstrong has called on people around the world to collaborate on the writing of a "Charter for Compassion" centered on the Golden Rule. She's hoping the effort will restore compassionate thinking and action in religious, moral and political life.
She's currently working with leaders from the Abrahamic faiths -- Islam, Christianity and Judaism -- to help finalize and propagate the charter. Delete the scoop?
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SFU is bringing the world’s leading author on religions to Vancouver in mid-March for a remarkable series of events focussed on compassion. I’ll use this blog to try to keep you informed about them as her arrival nears. Delete the scoop?
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There is a movement in this country to learn compassion for those around you, near and far. South Brunswick is joining this movement with a series of Cultural Community Conversations which was started by the Aging in Place Partnership, led by Jackie Rubel. The schools, local clergy and the library are joining in the conversation. The initial call to get back to being compassionate toward others was expressed by author and historian Karen Armstrong. Delete the scoop?
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