COMPASSION_CD

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www.compassionrising.com

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Thomas Merton (31 January 1915 – 10 December 1968) was a 20th century American Catholic writer. A Trappist monk of the Abbey of Gethsemani, Kentucky, he was a poet, social activist and student of comparative religion. In 1949, he was ordained to priesthood and given the name Father Louis.Read More: > HERE <

Mary Ward (23 January 1585 – 30 January 1645) was an English Catholic nun who founded the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary, also known as the Loreto Sisters (not to be confused with the Sisters of Loretto). She was declared „Venerable“ by Pope Benedict XVI on 19th of December, 2009; this is the first of three steps on the path to being declared a saint. Read More: > HERE <

Sister Nivedita (1867-1911), born Margaret Elizabeth Noble, was an Anglo-Irish social worker, author, teacher and disciple of Swami Vivekananda. She met Vivekananda in 1895 in London and travelled to India (Kolkata) in 1898. Swami Vivekananda gave her the name Nivedita (meaning „Dedicated to God“) when he initiated her into the vow of Brahmacharya on March 25 1898.Read More: > HERE <

Benedict of Nursia (Italian: San Benedetto da Norcia) (480 – 547) is a Christian saint, honored by the Roman Catholic Church as the patron saint of Europe and students.

Benedict founded twelve communities for monks at Subiaco, about 40 miles to the east of Rome, before moving to Monte Cassino in the mountains of southern Italy. There is no evidence that he intended to found a religious order. The Order of St Benedict is of modern origin and, moreover, not an „order“ as commonly understood but merely a confederation of autonomous congregations. Read More: > HERE <

A Meditative Experience of Compassion -Inspired by the friendship between His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the late Thomas Merton.

This film contains footage chronicling the 40-year unfolding of COMPASSION beginning with the meeting between The Dalai Lama and Merton in 1968, the historic first-visit by helicopter by The Dalai Lama to the Abbey of Gethsemani in 1994, the subsequent Gethsemani Encounter in 1996, and the climactic recording and filming inside Mammoth Cave, the Abbey of Gethsemani, and the Furnace Mountain Zen Temple in 1999. Additional materials include the Interreligious Vigil for World Peace led by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the meeting between The Dalai Lama and Muhammad Ali in 2003. All of the video is combined with the majestic music of Compassion.

www.tnp.org (Tibetan Nuns in Exile), www.choying.com (>Ani Choying teaching Om mani padme hum  mantra<)

About the Music: Humanity is at a tipping-point. Either the world as a whole will consciously move toward the positive and towards peace, or devolve unconsciously toward the negative and destructive. COMPASSION was undertaken 12 years ago with the expressed intention of creating a new, more powerfully vibrating music derived and inspired from the ancient chant traditions of East and West, forged in the womb of the largest cave in the world, and specifically designed to bring forth feelings of compassion and peace so as to bring people together in harmony and love.