A matter of kindness

In the cyberage of materialism, speed, and convenience, the concept of spirituality is dismissed as irrelevant, obsolete, and archaic.

- MARIA VICTORIA RUFINO

The Dalai Lama once described the essence of spirituality in one word — Kindness.

We now live in the future, the brave new world that Aldous Huxley wrote about decades ago. Scientists are preoccupied with genetic engineering, fine tuning the process of cloning, improving humanity, stem cell, gene therapy, and the manipulation of chromosomes and DNA.

Most people are obsessed with power, progress, success, wealth, and fame (or notoriety). Material and commercial concerns such as globalization, being “number one,” and winning wars take precedence over what has always been the essential — the intrinsic, ethereal, natural, and spiritual.

It is material might, prowess, and brute strength versus wisdom, grace and goodness.