[Buddha-l] Niceness

[Catalina Castell-du Payrat]

I have met what I would consider very nice people, people willing to help others practically all the time, not necesarilly always "big" things but everyday helping things at anytime with enthusiasm and joy. 
 
This always surprise me......because I am not exactly like this (I may do it as well, be nice I mean but it depends of hundreds of factors......) Most of this people that I know don't do any meditation, or are buddhists and some just haven't heard about it before I said I was interested in it, but I would say that they have in common that they have the kind of behaviour that Budha will advice.....just to start with (what it is called "virtue"). I always thought that because people like this exists there is still some hope for humanity.
 
Like Curt says, I think this niceness is not so contagious, but gives you that: hope. You see is possible to attain, and even if in most of them looks like spontaneous, may be if I was disciplinated enough, did meditation and apply all the things I think I know already.....I would be a nicer person in the future. Compassion is another important character that humanity will need I guess. I am a little more able to experience compassion than niceness, any ideas about why it is more difficult to be nice than to be compasionated? or do you think those are same aspects of the same?
 
Catalina
 
Catalina


Catalina Castell - du Payrat
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