Awakening Kindness: Finding Joy Through Compassion for Others by Nawang Khechog & His Holiness The Dalai Lama

Author:Nawang Khechog & His Holiness The Dalai Lama
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Body, Inspiration & Personal Growth, Religion, Buddhism, Mind & Spirit, Meditation, Tibetan
ISBN: 9781582702520
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2010-12-07T00:00:00+00:00

The Importance We Place on Outward Appearances

The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS) has reported more than ten million cosmetic procedures performed in the United States every year for the past three years. The ASAPS also reported that Americans spent more than $11 billion on cosmetic surgery in 2008 alone. This number doesn’t include money spent on regular cosmetics, diet programs and foods, or quick-fix pills and gadgets. Just as with any surgical procedure, the risks involved in these practices include abnormal heart rhythm, blood clots, brain damage, heart attacks, nerve damage, strokes, temporary paralysis, and death. And yet many continue to take these risks to appeal to society’s image of what is beautiful.

Regular cosmetics account for around $8 billion in annual revenue in the United States as we try to improve our outward appearances. An amazing number of Americans are willing to risk their lives to get plastic surgery, spend their savings on Botox, or invest in high-end makeup, designer clothes, gym memberships, and so on. If we all took the conviction that we have to appeal to others outwardly and channeled it into smiling, helping out, or simply giving a kind word to even one person every day, we would become more beautiful by leaps and bounds . . . and for free.

It is every human being’s birthright to be beautiful; we should be beautiful, of course. This is our right, but one of the secrets to truly making ourselves beautiful inside and out is becoming a good, kindhearted person and truly caring for others. If this is the type of person you are, wherever you go, whomever you meet, whatever way you communicate with others—whatever it is you’re doing—everything becomes beautiful.

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