15. The Law of Compassion
I love explaining this, and more often than not when you have attended any one of my Gatherings© you most likely heard me speak of this.
I like to explain compassion as the combination and result of sympathy and empathy, sympathy being the intellectual understanding of a situation, person’s condition, etc., and empathy being an understanding on an emotional level of these things. Compassion harnesses/unites sympathy and empathy and expresses itself through ourselves with an intellectual and emotional understanding, a balance of sorts.
You can be of the greatest help to others if you are living the Law of Compassion, because you are not just coming from an intellectual understanding, or a purely emotional (and therefore not objective) perspective, because compassion is the balance of these two, just as your heart chakra/emotional guidance-system is a balance/funnel of accuracy/truth. Your top 3 chakras (crown, brow, and throat) are mainly intellect/thought; your lower 3 chakras (spleen or solar plexus, navel, and root/base of the spine) are mainly physical. So the heart chakra/emotional guidance-centre of your body melds intellect and physical and produces truth/accuracy.
In this way, when living the Law of Compassion you are living a more truthful, soulfully-accurate existence; you are not merely sorry for the state that a person is in; you are not merely understanding their suffering; you are feeling, knowing, being their pain, with detachment/subjectivity, which is the key to spiritual enlightenment/awakening. While living the Law of Compassion, you can be grateful for more things, even suffering, for there is always learning/growth/gain as a result.
To truly be compassionate (which most of our scriptures speak of), and to live the Law of Compassion, it is not enough to merely sympathize for someone’s condition or situation; it is not enough to empathize with the unfortunate condition or situation of another, but we must combine all of this into compassion!
In other words, we must feel, understand, and relate to the suffering of others, yet be detached and subjective (non-judgemental) in our views/perception. Then and only then can we be truly effective.
Here’s an example.
Sympathy: “Oh, poor Edward, he can barely feed, clothe, and house his family! I feel so bad for them”
Empathy: “Edward and his family’s suffering is as a result of him not paying his bills and not being able to buy food or clothing for himself or his family! This is not surprising in this depressed economy”
Compassion: “Here are some tools, Edward, so that you and your family can learn how to feed, clothe, and house yourselves.”It is the difference between casually observing and/or feeling/ understanding the suffering of others and using all of that as a springboard for effective action and help. How, you may ask?
The key is detachment.
I do not mean detachment in an uncaring way, rather I mean detachment in a constructive way! You may feel so much pain for someone (sympathy) that it clouds your understanding of what needs to be done, or you may over-analyze the reasons for the despair in an effort to relate to or understand (empathize) so much so, that you also become ineffective, in
that your actions may eventually come too late. In choosing detachment/subjectivity/compassion, then you are already housing the sympathy and empathy for the despair, and you also have the clarity and detachment of compassion to take proper and relevant action.
If you can non-judgementally help yourself and others in a caring yet detached way, then you are living the Law of Compassion!
“The merciful will obtain mercy.”-Matthew 5:7
“Be a messenger of compassion, not by some esoteric practice, but through the kindness of your eyes.”-Zen scripture
“Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and dispel all darkness from their lives.”-Bhagavad Gita
Scientific-Treatment/Affirmative-Prayer/Spiritual/Meditative Mind-Treatment
Right here and right now, we acknowledge that Source is everywhere, there is no place Source is not, therefore where we are, Source is. We are allowing for a spiritual realization that We Are that We Are that We Are, and even now, we are allowing the full realization and fulfillment of compassion to be born through us, as us. For this word is Law, and is self-perpetuating the peace and joy which is also It’s True Nature, which is also our True Nature. In gratitude and appreciation we release the word, knowing that it shall, can, will return to us fulfilled, never void. We give thanks for this realization and we let it be, And So It Is!
Amen.
I love explaining this, and more often than not when you have attended any one of my Gatherings© you most likely heard me speak of this.
I like to explain compassion as the combination and result of sympathy and empathy, sympathy being the intellectual understanding of a situation, person’s condition, etc., and empathy being an understanding on an emotional level of these things. Compassion harnesses/unites sympathy and empathy and expresses itself through ourselves with an intellectual and emotional understanding, a balance of sorts.
You can be of the greatest help to others if you are living the Law of Compassion, because you are not just coming from an intellectual understanding, or a purely emotional (and therefore not objective) perspective, because compassion is the balance of these two, just as your heart chakra/emotional guidance-system is a balance/funnel of accuracy/truth. Your top 3 chakras (crown, brow, and throat) are mainly intellect/thought; your lower 3 chakras (spleen or solar plexus, navel, and root/base of the spine) are mainly physical. So the heart chakra/emotional guidance-centre of your body melds intellect and physical and produces truth/accuracy.
In this way, when living the Law of Compassion you are living a more truthful, soulfully-accurate existence; you are not merely sorry for the state that a person is in; you are not merely understanding their suffering; you are feeling, knowing, being their pain, with detachment/subjectivity, which is the key to spiritual enlightenment/awakening. While living the Law of Compassion, you can be grateful for more things, even suffering, for there is always learning/growth/gain as a result.
To truly be compassionate (which most of our scriptures speak of), and to live the Law of Compassion, it is not enough to merely sympathize for someone’s condition or situation; it is not enough to empathize with the unfortunate condition or situation of another, but we must combine all of this into compassion!
In other words, we must feel, understand, and relate to the suffering of others, yet be detached and subjective (non-judgemental) in our views/perception. Then and only then can we be truly effective.
Here’s an example.
Sympathy: “Oh, poor Edward, he can barely feed, clothe, and house his family! I feel so bad for them”
Empathy: “Edward and his family’s suffering is as a result of him not paying his bills and not being able to buy food or clothing for himself or his family! This is not surprising in this depressed economy”
Compassion: “Here are some tools, Edward, so that you and your family can learn how to feed, clothe, and house yourselves.”It is the difference between casually observing and/or feeling/ understanding the suffering of others and using all of that as a springboard for effective action and help. How, you may ask?
The key is detachment.
I do not mean detachment in an uncaring way, rather I mean detachment in a constructive way! You may feel so much pain for someone (sympathy) that it clouds your understanding of what needs to be done, or you may over-analyze the reasons for the despair in an effort to relate to or understand (empathize) so much so, that you also become ineffective, in
that your actions may eventually come too late. In choosing detachment/subjectivity/compassion, then you are already housing the sympathy and empathy for the despair, and you also have the clarity and detachment of compassion to take proper and relevant action.
If you can non-judgementally help yourself and others in a caring yet detached way, then you are living the Law of Compassion!
“The merciful will obtain mercy.”-Matthew 5:7
“Be a messenger of compassion, not by some esoteric practice, but through the kindness of your eyes.”-Zen scripture
“Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and dispel all darkness from their lives.”-Bhagavad Gita
Scientific-Treatment/Affirmative-Prayer/Spiritual/Meditative Mind-Treatment
Right here and right now, we acknowledge that Source is everywhere, there is no place Source is not, therefore where we are, Source is. We are allowing for a spiritual realization that We Are that We Are that We Are, and even now, we are allowing the full realization and fulfillment of compassion to be born through us, as us. For this word is Law, and is self-perpetuating the peace and joy which is also It’s True Nature, which is also our True Nature. In gratitude and appreciation we release the word, knowing that it shall, can, will return to us fulfilled, never void. We give thanks for this realization and we let it be, And So It Is!
Amen.