{"id":71412,"date":"2026-01-02T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nalandabodhi.org\/?p=71412"},"modified":"2026-03-26T10:50:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T17:50:38","slug":"everywhere-there-is-kindness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nalandabodhi.org\/nl\/2026\/01\/02\/everywhere-there-is-kindness\/","title":{"rendered":"Everywhere, There Is Kindness"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"71412\" class=\"elementor elementor-71412\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-10ea4f89 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"10ea4f89\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-2b2f4cc2\" data-id=\"2b2f4cc2\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1911e89 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"1911e89\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Everywhere, There Is Kindness<\/h1>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-dc611f9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"dc611f9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">My earliest memory is waking from a nap on a canvas cot at St. Andrew\u2019s preschool to find my mom and an excited puppy. Other kids were taking note as well, getting up off their cots in a blatant violation of nap-time protocols\u2014but the puppy was irresistible, bouncing and barking his young heart out. This was Cojo, who was to be my first pet.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In my mother\u2019s telling, she took a surreptitious look at the dog\u2019s paperwork in the process of adopting him from the shelter and saw his original name (Cujo, after the infamous literary killer) and his last place of residence (a male strip club). Her imagination filled in the lurid details: purchased to play a bit part in an exotic dance and given a vicious name for the sake of masculine toughness, but in the end too loving and lazy to perform his intended role.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cojo, amidst the excitement of a new place and a dozen renegade preschoolers, instantly urinated on the tile floor. This was a cause of great concern for the women running the preschool, since\u2014as it turned out\u2014inspectors from the state agency that licensed preschools were onsite.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This story has floated around my family ever since\u2014so much so that I\u2019m not sure where my hazy memory ends and the family story begins. Only in recent years have I considered some of the other characters of the story, relegated in our retelling to fretting on the margins: the women who ran St. Andrew\u2019s preschool, who had put us down for our naps and who under other, less-urinous circumstances, might then be gently waking us for a snack of bananas and crackers.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-331cdb8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"331cdb8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Loving Kindness<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c7b2d5a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c7b2d5a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a chapter on loving kindness in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">De<\/span><\/i> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jewel Ornament of Liberation<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Gampopa encourages us to contemplate how much care our mothers have given us: <\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0&#8221;We just came with a mouth and stomach\u2014empty-handed, without any material things. When we came to this place where we knew no one, she gave food when we were hungry, she gave drink when we were thirsty, she gave clothes when we were cold, she gave wealth when we had nothing. . . . At first, we were not capable of eating with our mouth and hands nor were we capable of enduring all the different hardships. We were like feeble insects without strength; we were just silly and could not think anything. Again, without rejection, the mother served us, put us on her lap, protected us from fire and water, held us away from precipices, dispelled all harmful things, . . . in inconceivable ways, she protected the life of her child.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If we reflect even a little, it\u2019s easy to see the love and kindness that our mothers gave us\u2014bringing us into this world, feeding the \u201cfeeble insects\u201d we started as, and training us to have resilience and be curious when we are out in the broader world. But if we look just a little bit harder, I\u2019m convinced we will see many, many others who have showed us great kindness along the way.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For me, that includes the women who ran St. Andrew\u2019s preschool. In the first five years of my life, those women spent nearly as much time caring for me as my mother did. They fed me, they clothed me, they were a part of teaching me to become a functioning member of a community. There were many jobs they could have chosen, many that paid more and asked less of them, but they chose to use their time, their energy, and their talents to care for others\u2019 children. And yet, I hardly recall their faces and definitely don\u2019t remember their names! How many countless others have provided acts of love and care, some small and some huge, that have shaped who I am and the conditions of my life?<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3dc52ef elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"3dc52ef\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Being of Benefit<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6582708 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6582708\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If we keep reflecting, we will find that we have not just been the recipient of kindness\u2014we\u2019ve also had many opportunities to use our capacities to be of benefit to others. We are made of the love and kindness that other people have selflessly given us, and other beings benefit from the love and kindness we provide them. Though we may be the center of our own little story, these same bonds of love received and love given fractal out in all directions of time and space, an endless mutuality without center or fringe.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cojo was our loving family dog for the next fourteen years until\u2014in line with the reality of impermanence\u2014he started to slow down and eventually become sick. After high school one day, my mother relayed the heartbreaking news that he would probably die in the next day or two. Cojo didn\u2019t move from the living room floor that afternoon, perhaps resigned to the approach of death or perhaps just sapped of energy to do much else. Not knowing what else to do, I laid next to him on the floor, gently petting him and telling him he was loved. I slept the whole night with him so that he wasn\u2019t alone, and in the morning the vet put him to sleep. To this day, I am grateful for the opportunity to have shown him that care, and awed at the capacity of my teenage self to do it.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So, from time to time, marinate in that love and kindness, and then remember: We have not only the immense capacity but also the joyous duty to put it back out into the world. That\u2019s our main job, that\u2019s the whole point. In good times and bad, when it\u2019s easy and when it\u2019s hard: be kind and loving. As even the notorious William S. Burroughs put it: \u201cWhenever you are threatened by a hostile presence, . . . emit a thick cloud of love like an octopus squirts out ink.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-539a2b1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"539a2b1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Contemplative Practice<\/h3>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ec7b674 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ec7b674\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<ul><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Take a few moments to settle into your meditation posture and relax your mind.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Identify a person in your life who cared about you when you needed it. This could be your mother or father, another relative, or any person in your life who was there for you at a critical time. Spend a moment in genuine appreciation for the love you received.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Next, identify a person or other being whom you cared for when they needed it. This could be something big or small, but it was a time that you showed your loving kindness. The important thing is to genuinely appreciate your capacity to give, to help, to care.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Close the session by making a determination to continue practicing loving kindness toward all beings.<\/span><\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-fc40aef elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"fc40aef\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-f896e2f\" data-id=\"f896e2f\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-668ccaa elementor-author-box--image-valign-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-author-box\" data-id=\"668ccaa\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"author-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-author-box\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"elementor-author-box__avatar\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nalandabodhi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Justin-Hellier-photo-300x271.jpg\" alt=\"Justin Hellier\" loading=\"lazy\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-author-box__text\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-author-box__name\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJustin Hellier\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-author-box__bio\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Justin Hellier is a member of the Nalandabodhi Seattle sangha. 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