I was asked the other day what it was that attracted me to Buddhism. My immediate, unthinking response was the elegance of the Buddha's teachings, the awe inspiring intellectual sophistication of the architecture of the dharma. When I'd stopped enthusing and waxing poetical I realised that no, what had connected for me when I encountered Buddhism was the Buddha's total, uncompromising, all encompassing compassion.
The biggest tragedy facing the beings of this world is that inherent in the ever increasing numbers of its human inhabitants compassion demands that we recognise this. The following short film is about that and how we need to honour Mother Earth.....................
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