Aug 14: Join the 2012 Hunger Walk

August 14 Compassionate Living Tip from Interfaith Paths to Peace

Sign up today for the Sept 9 Hunger Walk in Louisville

http://daretocare.org/events/hunger_walk

The Hunger Walk

September 9, 2012

Waterfront Park

The Hunger Walk presented by Aramark is a 5K Walk and Run benefiting Dare to Care Food Bank and the World Food Program.  Over 2,000 people put hunger on the run and make a public commitment that everyone will have access to the food they need to be healthy.

All net proceeds from the Hunger Walk benefit Dare to Care Food Bank and the World Food Program.   

The Hunger Walk is organized by Dare to Care and Interfaith Paths to Peace.

Aug 13: The Sacred Art of Forgiveness

August 13 Compassionate Living Tip from Interfaith Paths to Peace

Learn about "The Sacred Art of Forgiveness"

http://www.skylightpaths.com/page/product/978-1-59473-175-4

Tap into the power of the Divine. Learn how to forgive—and be forgiven.

Everyone knows that forgiveness is a virtue and a key to emotional, spiritual and even physical well-being. But learning how to actually forgive—or to accept forgiveness, as the case may be—is a sacred art few of us have mastered. 

 

It doesn’t have to be that way. Writing from personal experience and her broad knowledge of many faith traditions, Marcia Ford offers a new perspective on forgiveness and reconciliation, an approach rooted in the Spirit that can be learned by anyone no matter how deep the hurt. Through real-life examples, penetrating reflections, scriptural references and practical suggestions, Ford outlines the steps that one by one can help you to forgive, including: 

 

    • Coming to terms with anger, bitterness and resentment

    • Understanding the differences between forgiveness and reconciliation

    • Taking the initiative, even when you’re the one who’s been wronged

    • Strategies for listening “with the heart” in emotionally charged situations

    • Knowing when to forgive and forget—and when to forgive and take action

    • Ways of allowing the power of the Divine to work through you

    • Finding compassion for others—and for yourself

    • … and much more 

 

Aug 12: The Healing Power of Compassion

August 12 Compassionate Living Tip from Interfaith Paths to Peace

Listen to Buddhist Leader Jack Kornfield's Story of the Healing Power of Compassion

http://www.soundstrue.com/weeklywisdom/?source=tami-simon&p=1353&category=PP&version=full

Jack Kornfield: A Story about the Healing Power of Compassion

Whether he’s speaking to beginners, advanced students, or anyone else interested in the spiritual journey, Jack Kornfield’s favorite way of transmitting insight is through stories. As Sounds True producer Randy Roark observes, Jack’s heartfelt stories may be funny, surprising, or poignant—and are always rich with wisdom. In Jack’s new program, Awakening Is Real: A Guide to the Deeper Dimensions of the Inner Journey, he talks about the spiritual journey, from the moment we first become aware of a longing for something more to the final steps we take as we approach our death. “For this episode,” Randy says, “I selected one story from these talks that moved me most. It’s the story of an aging Tibetan monk who has just been given a cancer diagnosis.”

 

Aug 11: Encounter Sikh Spiritual Wisdom

August 11 Compassionate Living Tip from Interfaith Paths to Peace

Explore Wisdom from the Sikhs with this book from Skylight Paths Publishing

http://www.skylightpaths.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=SP&Product_Code=978-1-59473-209-6&Affiliate=SLP-8-10-12

Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism, was born during a period of political and religious turmoil in India in the fifteenth century. Tension between Hindus and Muslims had escalated, leading to greater polarization of the two religions. By establishing Sikhism, Nanak created a synthesis of Hinduism and Islam with the belief that God is One. He advocated a casteless society based on truth, unity, and equality.

During his twenty-three years of traveling he taught not only in India but also in Tibet, Ceylon (Sri Lanka) and in the area of the present-day countries of Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Iran, preaching the truth as he perceived it and showing humankind the path to salvation. Highlighting his quest for tolerance and compassion, this fascinating biography tells the story of a unique spiritual leader who showed a gentle, peaceful path to realizing God.

Admired, loved and respected even in his lifetime, Guru Nanak continues to command admiration and respect five hundred years after he lived, with his lasting universal message of Absolute Unity more urgent and necessary than ever before.

 

 

Aug 10: Avoid "The Trap of the Senses"

August 10 Compassionate Living Tip from Interfaith Paths to Peace

Learn to Avoid "The Trap of the Senses" from H.W.L. Poonja

http://www.soundstrue.com/weeklywisdom/?source=podcast&p=6400&category=WW&version=full

Everybody wants to be free. What is the one impediment between you and freedom? Craving. Desire or expectation for something which is perishable.
You are devoted to that craving. Thus, you are devoted to this manifestation and its construction; craving that which is impermanent leads to suffering, old age, and death.
Everyone is involved in this craving for sense pleasures, and it has not given peace to anyone. No one, from king to middle-class to workers, is happy. They are all chasing what appears and disappears.
Craving for what is not real takes you away from the eternal reality. Gods have everything, but still they are not happy.
You always have a light within you, but you don’t turn toward it. Instead, you see this light shining on outer objects. You chase these objects, looking for the light. But you are only seeing reflections of the light within. You run looking for satisfaction from the objects that have caught the reflection of your inner light.
You are hunting outside. This is called craving.
When you decide, “Enough! I must be free,” then the function of the mind stops going out and clinging to objects in search of happiness. It becomes no-mind. The mind is only mind in the fulfillment of its desires. When you desire something, when you crave something, when you expect something, then it takes this function, and its name is mind.
Stop it, and it is quiet. In this quietness, you can’t call it mind. So dam the flow of the river flowing outward. Energy is not being wasted then. When it is dammed, it stops. Then it is quiet. In this quietness, the river will be no river. You can’t call it a river now. Now call it a reservoir.
This reservoir, without ripples, is identical to your own light. This light is inside your mind.
Now the mind is no-mind. No mind, no craving, no expectations, no desires, no notions, and no ideas.
It is good to stop. Then you will see that you have found the precious stone you have been seeking. Having found this, you will be happy. You will be satisfied. You don’t expect anything more, because this is chitdarman, the fulfillment of all desires. Chitdarman means you just think and it happens. Chitdarman, the precious stone which shines by its own luster.

Aug 9 Tip: Attend Nagasaki Memorial

August 9 Compassionate Living Tip from Interfaith Paths to Peace

Attend Today's Memorial Marking the 67th Anniversary of the Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki

Please join us for this powerful ceremony on Thursday August 9 at noon at Christ Church Cathedral.

Ceremony Marking the

67^th Anniversary of the

Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki

Thursday, August 9, 2012

The Memorial Garden at Christ Church Cathedral

Honoring the victims of the atomic bombings in 1945

and victims of strategic bombing in all wars.

Opening Prayer

Vanessa Hurst, Executive Director

The Merton Institute for Contemplative Living

A Few Words about the Bombing of Nagasaki

Terry Taylor, Executive Director

Interfaith Paths to Peace

Report from an Eyewitness

Lee B. Thomas, Jr.

One of the first U.S. soldiers to visit Hiroshima after the atomic bombing

Reading of Thomas Merton's Poem "Original Child Bomb"

Led by Mitzi Friedlander and Helen Starr Jones

Tolling of the Cathedral Bell

Sponsored by Interfaith Paths to Peace

In cooperation with

The Louisville Chapter of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, 

Drepung Gomang Institute (Louisville's Tibetan Buddhist Community),

Friends (Quaker) Meeting of Louisville, Partnership for a Compassionate Louisville,

The Peace and Justice Division of the Episcopal Diocese of Kentucky, and

St. William and St. Agnes Catholic Churches

Aug 8 Tip: Attend Memorial for Victims of Attack on Sikh Center

August 8 Compassionate Living Tip from Interfaith Paths to Peace

Please attend the noontime silent candle lighting memorial for victims of attack on Sikhs

http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2012308060110

Please stop by Christ Church Cathedral, 425 South Second Street in Louisville, any time between 12:10 and 1 pm on Wednesday for a silent, candlelight memorial for victims of the terrible shooting on Sunday at the Sikh house of worship in Wisconsin. This memorial will replace our scheduled Lectio Divina Meditation.

Interfaith Paths to Peace, the Kentucky Sikh Gurudwara, the Kentucky Council of Churches, the Partnership for a Compassionate Louisville, the Jewish Community of Louisville, the Louisville Baha'i Community, The Drepung Gomang (Tibetan Buddhist) Institute, the Hindu Temple of Kentucky, St. William & St. Agnes Catholic Churches, the Merton Institute for Contemplative Living, 10,000 Buddhas Summit Monastery, the Center for Interfaith Relations (Festival of Faiths),  Louisville's Pakistani American Community, and others are sponsoring this event.

Those attending are invited to enter, remain and depart in silence. Please light a candle for the Sikh victims and all victims of religious intolerance and violence.

  

The Sikh center is holding a memorial vigil to the victims at 7 p.m. Friday at 198 Thompson Ave. Attendees will also be praying for the victims at next Sunday's worship beginning at 10:30 a.m., followed by the weekly meal at 1 p.m. All are invited to both events.