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The fabulous Diane Musho Hamilton
About Diane Musho Hamilton
Diane Musho Hamilton is an accomplished expert on what to do when understanding has breaks down. She has decades of experience as an award-winning mediator working both privately and in the judicial system in the state of Utah. Her teaching comes from “being in the trenches” with people from all walks of life.
Diane was the first Director of the Office of Alternative Dispute Resolution for the Utah Judiciary. She is the recipient of several prestigious awards for her work in creating mediation programs throughout the Utah court system.
Diane has been a practitioner of meditation for almost 30 years. She began her studies at Naropa University in 1983 with Choygam Trungpa Rinpoche, and became a Zen student of Genpo Roshi’s in 1997. In 2003, she received ordination as a Zen monk with her husband Michael Zimmerman, and received dharma transmission in 2006.
Diane is a recognized world-wide as a master facilitator the Big Mind Big Heart. Big Mind is the revolutionary process developed by Genpo Roshi.
Genpo and I were in Austin once and he said, “Diane was born for the Big Mind Big Heart work” and “she’s an even better Big Mind facilitator than I am…and I created the process.”
Diane has also worked with Ken Wilber and the Integral Institute since 2004. She has co-created many programs with the leading Integral teachers and students of Ken’s work.
Diane is an exceptionally gifted mediator, group facilitator, and one of the authentic contemporary spiritual teachers of our time.
Her new book – Everything Is Workable: A Zen Approach to Conflict Resolution – December 3, 2013 – On Amazon NOW!
Instructions for Life by The Dalai Lama
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- Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
- When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.
- Follow the three R’s:
– Respect for self,
– Respect for others and
– Responsibility for all your actions. - Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
- Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
- Don’t let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- When you realize you’ve made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
- Spend some time alone every day.
- Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.
- Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
- Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and
think back, you’ll be able to enjoy it a second time. - A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.
- In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don’t bring up the past.
- Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
- Be gentle with the earth.
- Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.
- Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
- Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
- If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
- If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
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His Holiness The Dalai Lama
Tenzin Gyatso, is a revered, internationally known spiritual leader. He is considered to be both the head of state and the spiritual leader of Tibet. With the invasion of Tibet by China in 1949, the Dalai Lama has consistently campaigned for his country’s freedom, tirelessly traveling and speaking on this subject as well as aspects of Buddhism and how it contributes to peace. For this, the Dalai Lama won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989.
The Dalai Lamas are believed to be manifestations of Chenrezig, the Bodhisattva of Compassion and the patron saint of Tibet. Bodhisattvas are enlightened beings who have chosen to be reborn, postponing their own nirvana, in order to serve humanity. This the 14th Dalai Lama has done in droves.
Born on July 6, 1935, to a farming family in northeastern Tibet, he was named Lhamo Dhondup. At the age of two, he was recognized as the reincarnation of the 13th Dalai Lama, Thubten Gyatso, and he began his monastic education at age six. He had a rigorous educational program, with five major and five minor subjects, covering Tibetan art and culture, Sanskrit, medicine, and Buddhist philosophy, as well as poetry, music and drama, and astrology, to name only some of the subjects. At 23 he passed his final examinations at Lhasa with honors and was awarded the Geshe Lharampa degree, which is equivalent to a doctorate in Buddhist philosophy.
The Dalai Lama assumed full political power in 1950, after China’s invasion of Tibet. He pursued a peaceful solution to the invasion until 1959, when he was forced into exile. Since then he has lived in Dharamsala, in northern India, which serves as the seat of the Tibetan political government in exile. The Dalai Lama has repeatedly appealed to the United Nations for resolutions on Tibet, and also been successful in swaying world opinion to his cause. He proposed the Five Point Peace Plan for Tibet in 1987, viewing it as an initial step to a worsening Tibetan solution.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama has consistently and tirelessly been a champion for non-violence, not only in his own country, but in the larger world. This has made him an inspiration to millions. He has traveled to more than 62 countries on 6 continents, along the way meeting with presidents, premieres, heads of state, and royalty. He has also enjoyed dialogues with scientists and every day people. He has won over 84 awards, honorary doctorates and prizes, and he is known for his writing, authoring over 72 books, many of which reach bestseller status. His books include, My Land and My People, A Simple Path, How to Practice, The Art of Happiness, and The Universe in a Single Atom.
His Holiness adheres to the Three Main Commitments in Life. His first commitment is the promotion of human values such compassion, forgiveness, tolerance, contentment and self-discipline. His second is the promotion of religious harmony and understanding among the world’s major religions. The third is his commitment to the Tibetan issue. He will act as a spokesman for the Tibetans struggle for freedom until a solution is reached. His Holiness says he will carry on with the first two commitments until his last breath.
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Lori Leyden, PhD, MBA – Inspired by her life-changing experience working with widow and orphan head of households in Rwanda in the fall of 2007, Lori and her organization are committed to raising consciousness for personal and global healing. She is a former psychotherapist, public speaker, workshop leader, and now facilitator of The Grace Process, a spiritual practice for joyful living. With over 30 years experience in the fields of psychotherapy, business and spiritual growth, Lori holds a PhD in Health & Human Services and an MBA in Management. As a Diplomate of the American Psychotherapy Association, she was the first Spirituality Columnist for the Association’s professional journal, Annals. She is the author of The Grace Process Guidebook: A practical guide for transcending your ego and engaging the wisdom of your heart to harness grace and receive the healing you yearn for and The Stress Management Handbook: Strategies for Health and Inner Peace available in English, Spanish, Arabic and Korean.
“Project LIGHT gives birth to a much-needed model of humanitarian aid that addresses basic survival needs, emotional healing, and economic self-sustainability. By developing heart-centered healing and leadership programs for traumatized youth, students, and humanitarians, we seek to shine LIGHT on one of the greatest human gifts that can unite us all—the power and resilience of the human spirit.”
They were young children in 1994 when Rwanda experienced the genocide that left 800,000 of them orphaned. In the wake of the violence, Rwanda’s social structure collapsed, severely affecting schools, health care, and the economy. Meeting the basic needs of food, shelter, clothing and education overshadowed the daunting task of healing the orphaned children’s traumatic memories, injuries, illnesses, and fears. UNICEF estimates that 96% of the children witnessed the massacres, and many children who survived were mutilated and raped, resulting in an unprecedented level of trauma among children.
In 2007, Lori Leyden, Ph.D., traveled to Rwanda with her team to work with orphaned genocide survivors and orphaned heads of household (children caring for other children). After Lori worked with the kids using energy psychology techniques, their trauma outbreaks were reduced by 90%, a significant relief in a situation where 200+ teenagers share a one-room dormitory. Lori uses a “train the trainer” model. She has now worked with over 550 orphans and other genocide survivors, and those young people have trained hundreds of others.
In Lori’s work, trauma healing is the first priority. There were times, though, when she wondered if it would even be possible to heal the depths of the traumas, the intrusive memories, nightmares, and sense of hopelessness that have been the daily reality since 1994 of these young people. Looking back, what struck Lori and members of her team most clearly was the resiliency and human dignity they witnessed in the kids. Lori realized that if these kids, with all the horrors they had endured, were willing to try to forgive, then there truly was a potential within all human hearts for world peace.
“Now we have hope and we know this is not our burden alone to carry. Forgiveness is so hard but we are willing now because we know we need each other.” –Celestin,
Student Leader representing orphan genocide survivors.
In 2008, Lori and her team decided to include celebrations in their work. They started with birthdays. With all the kids in a big circle, Lori called out “January” and all the kids with birthdays in January were to enter the center of the circle to be sung to and celebrated. Nobody moved. “February,” called Lori . . . again, nobody moved. Month after month went by until finally at “September,” with the center still empty, Lori and the team realized that these kids literally did not know their birthdays. Having grown up with no loving families to mark their birthdays as important events to celebrate, “Happy Birthday” was not part of their reality.
Lori’s vision extends far beyond healing the trauma, as critical and foundational as that work is. The orphans, now ages 16 to 25, are graduating high school in a country still not fully on its feet, and they find themselves with a diploma but few options for employment. Hope is still scarce. Thus, economic sustainability comes next—the young people need to be able to earn a living. Lori’s model of “hand-up, not hand-out,” is evolving as the first 12 young people, called “Ambassadors,” have graduated her Project LIGHT program. Two Ambassadors are in college, and two have obtained driver’s licenses (hard to do in Rwanda), so will be employable in professions that require driving. And all the Ambassadors are learning entrepreneurship, having launched a soap-making business. The lush landscape of Rwanda provides ample ingredients for making soap, and all 12 Ambassadors are learning all aspects of the business.
“Before I did not believe I could be an entrepreneur. Now I can start businesses in order to help myself, my community, my country and our world.”
–Desire, Project LIGHT Ambassador
Lori is teaching the kids to become heart-centered leaders, with the ultimate goal of having the kids themselves take ownership of the project. Lori shares her vision:
“Imagine an international youth healing center where young people receive emotional healing and training, real opportunities for economic independence and the freedom to become heart-centered leaders. With advanced technology to have real-time interactions between these young people, students, donors and our visionary Resource Partners in the fields of education, healing arts, business and entrepreneurship.”
Ultimately, Lori’s vision includes Youth Healing Centers like this all over the world, easily linked with communications made possible by today’s technology.
Lori’s vision has captured the hearts of American children who want to help. Middle school students in Santa Barbara, California, raised money for essential humanitarian projects at the orphanage such as water storage tanks and electricity. And one young man recently gave his Bar Mitzvah gifts to Project LIGHT, a total of $6,450! Asked how Project LIGHT had inspired him, this 13-year-old related, “Genocide is one of the worst things that can happen to people. We should have already learned “never again” but it is still happening. What you are doing is helping to prevent it by helping people understand each other better and giving young people a chance to be leaders and make their way in the world. More people should know about this program because it will help a lot of people. It should be bigger than it is. That’s why we need people to donate…”
Lori believes we are all “connected through our hearts’ desires to love, to be loved, to live a meaningful life and to have a bright and peaceful future. When we honor our oneness and act as One Heart we can accomplish anything.”
The beautiful teaching of the Dhammapada, that each person carries the light of the world within themselves, is echoed by Yvette: “You taught us to love ourselves. These lessons helped me realize I can make a difference. Happiness is for everyone. We are ready to become the Light of the World.”
Lori calls them Ambassadors. As they go about their volunteer work of teaching what they’ve learned in Project LIGHT, their community now calls them “HOPEMAKERS.”
Learn more about Project LIGHT, Lori’s vision, and how you can help: www.ProjectLIGHTRwanda.com
Burmese peace activist Dr. Daw Aung San Su Kyi joins Dr Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, and Mother Teresa as the heroes of peace and human rights.
She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991. Under house arrest by the military junta in charge of Burma, she was not allowed to leave her home, much less Burma, to accept her award.
Twenty-one years later, in June of 2012, Dr. Daw Aung San Su Kyi traveled to the Nobel headquarters to accept her award. Here is her belated acceptance speech. (Starts at 9.00 minutes)
Belatedly, Dr. Daw Aung San Su Kyi accepts her Nobel Peace Price
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