Michael Nagler reminds us why our job is not to stop war but to “start nonviolence,” connecting the dots to raising human dignity. About Daily Metta Stephanie Van Hook, the Metta Center’s executive director, launched Daily Metta in 2015 as a way to share Gandhi’s spiritual wisdom and experiments with nonviolence. Our 2016 Daily Metta… read more
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Misplaced Pity: Daily Metta
“If I had the power I would stop every sadavrata where free meals are given.” ~ Gandhi, Young India, August 13, 1925 Before we conclude that Gandhi was hard-hearted toward India’s many beggars, consider his reasoning—“It has encouraged laziness, idleness, hypocrisy, and even crime. Such misplaced charity adds nothing to the wealth of the country”—and… read more
Sweat Labor: Daily Metta
“If everyone lives by the sweat of his brow the earth will become a paradise.” ~ Gandhi, The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi, p. 200 Why this emphasis on manual labor? Surely this is an exaggeration? Well, no. Spiritual as he was, Gandhi felt that the disconnect between the human being and her or his physical… read more
“Happiness and Human Dignity”- Daily Metta
January 4 Happiness means an enlightened realization of human dignity and a craving for human liberty which prizes itself above mere selfish satisfaction of personal comforts and material wants and would readily and joyfully sacrifice these. -Gandhi (Young India 3-5-1931) When people who knew Gandhi reflect on what it was like to be around him,… read more
