Compassion

[BROOK]

Compassion is the ultimate and most meaningful embodiment of emotional maturity. It is through compassion that a person achieves the highest peak and deepest reach in his or her search for self-fulfillment.

Compassion is not sentiment but is making justice and doing works of mercy. Compassion is not a moral commandment but a flow and overflow of the fullest human and divine energies.

Compassion is a human emotion prompted by the pain of others. More vigorous than empathy, the feeling commonly gives rise to an active desire to alleviate another's suffering.

Compassion is one of those necessary ingredients to elevate the suffering we as humanity must start exercising....if we could lose the egos long enough to understand that it would ease some of the suffering and create a road to healing...a road that this world is in desperate need of..the healing would begin....


Let some true healing begin
Show some compassion

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[Luminari]

Some more compassion for Pablo would have been a good example. :zip:

[BROOK]

Some more compassion for Pablo would have been a good example. :zip:
When one deliberately seeks to inflict pain....it's difficult to show compassion..but I did send him blessings after the incident...I sent him love on the highest ....on his page...with no real response. You can only do so much for someone.
Then again Luminari..maybe you were not aware that I did show some compassion in the incident ...to no avail

[Luminari]

Its alright Brook thats just the first thing that came to mind sorry..

I'm sure you have pure intent.

[BROOK]

It was not meant to be condescending...it was meant to be a reminder....as compassion seems to be lacking lately
Sorry if it has offended you..it is not personal to anyone in particular...just a reminder

When I see bombs exploding, and children crying...I see the need for compassion

I digress

[Luminari]

YouTube- Great Compassionate Heart Dharani - 5 Repetitions

[BROOK]

I will have this thread deleted...it serves no purpose here

[Initiate]

http://homefronthugs.com/UPLOAD/compassion.jpg

Compassion: Deep awareness of the suffering of another coupled with the wish to relieve it.

[Dantheman62]

I will have this thread deleted...it serves no purpose here


Don't delete it! Compassion is a great thing! I'll have compassion for the Chicago Bears after the Minnesota Vikings kick their butts today!! Go Vikes!
But I won't show compassion for nutcases like Benjamin (full of it) Fulford, or Bill (the Beagle) Deagle, because they're misleading people with their hogwash. So I guess I'm riding the compassion fence, LOL

[waitinginthewings]

I will have this thread deleted...it serves no purpose here

Brook. please leave this thread....it is an important point compassion. Our world is in so much need of compassion, from Mother Earth to Humanity. So much suffering is dolled out every day on innocent victims, its heartbreaking.

I would love to see meditation being taught in the schools at an early age & lectures on compassion, kindness & respect for each other and the planet.

[GaiaLove]

Brook has requested this thread to be deleted, the past couple posts were positive and in alignment with her original intent so for now i'll leave it and see.

[BROOK]

I suppose as long as it remains in the interest of compassion...leave it. It has been requested me three times, not to remove it..so let it stand.

[Lionhawk]

And that is an act of compassion!

Many Blessings to you Brook!

[waitinginthewings]

By The Mahayanasutralankara, by Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi

YouTube- Part 1 of 5 The Practice of Compassion

[mudra]

Thank you for this thread Brook :thumb_yello:

"An essential method to begin acting with compassion is to transform negative thoughts into positive ones. A positive attitude goes a long way to help achieve this. Jealousy, envy, hate, anger, and making snap judgments against people just because they are different from us... these are examples of some negative attitudes that must be adjusted into positive ones to promote compassion. When we quit letting ourselves be ruled so much by those negative attitudes, we not only find it easier to practice compassion, but we also find that we receive a surprising amount of compassion, as well. We all need compassion in our lives to some extent. Practicing it is a sure way to “reap what you sow.”

from the book of Marie Claire Wilson " Compassion in Budhism "

Love Always
mudra

[mudra]

The Buddha taught the following to his son Rahula

"Rahula, practice loving kindness to overcome anger. Loving kindness has the capacity to bring happiness to others without demanding anything in return.
Practice compassion to overcome cruelty. Compassion has the capacity to remove the suffering of others without expecting anything in return.
Practice sympathetic joy to overcome hatred. Sympathetic joy arises when one rejoices over the happiness of others and wishes others well-being and success.
Practice non-attachment to overcome prejudice. Non-attachment is the way of looking at all things openly and equally. This is because that is. Myself and others are not separate. Do not reject one thing only to chase after another.
I call these the four immeasurables. Practice them and you will become a refreshing source of vitality and happiness for others."

Love Always
mudra

[bushycat]

And we can have compassion for ourselves: " I was walking blind for so long, but I have made it to here" "The way I responded yesterday is not the way I respond today because of where I am now on my path." " I am in Love now and also have great compassion for ones still walking blind. "

Nice thread, Brook. Thank you.

Love Always,
Bushycat

[morguana]

When I focus my self on compassion, I come up with love :
Bou x

[mudra]

"All the peace and happiness of the whole globe,
the peace and happiness of societies,
the peace and happiness of family,
the peace and happiness in the individual persons' life,
and the peace and happiness of even the animals and so forth,
all depends on having loving kindness toward each other."

Lama Zopa Rinpoche

Love Always
mudra

[BROOK]

Have you run into somebody lately who was in pain? someone who's world was somehow rocked by a major event in their life?

And did you show them compassion? or did you side step the subject, so as not to inflict any more pain?

I know I have...I did not want to bring anything up in those instances as it is awkward, and again might cause further pain.


Today I was helping a lady whose husband had just died...I was helping her sort an affair, that would ease things for her. I was in no way obligated to discuss the subject of her husbands death. Just the matters at hand.

I told her that I was sorry for her loss...and asked if there was anything else I could do to help. she said, no she was fine with what I had done so far. but then she started talking about her loss, and you could see in her face that she wanted to talk about it, because everybody else around her was side stepping the subject. It was a look of relief, that she had someone to talk to about it with. And she talked for about 20 minutes, about the actual event of losing her husband. He had had cancer, and it was painfully slow for her to watch, let alone go through. she did not cry..she just needed to talk. She was craving compassion..and was not getting it from the ones around her, as they were afraid to broach the subject.

This is just one way we, myself included..can reach out and show compassion...it really does heal :wub2:

YouTube- Evanescence - "My Immortal" Official Video

[Lionhawk]

Yes Mudra you can be compassionate about many separate things, but in my original mind, to be truly compassionate, one doesn't segregate with duality. "True compassion embraces all that is." It is that simple and there is no need to separate it to define it as it is a state of being that embraces all that is. You can be however compassionate about something but that is a program that operates from the template of duality. Not oneness and any one is welcomed to quote me on that.

Again, TRUE COMPASSION EMBRACES ALL THAT IS!

How's that for originality?

Compassionately,

Lionhawk

[mudra]

y one is welcomed to quote me on that.

Again, TRUE COMPASSION EMBRACES ALL THAT IS!

How's that for originality?

Compassionately,

Lionhawk

Indeed LionHawk you are right ...I call it Love in my own words ..as Love has no boundaries .

Love from me
mudra

[BROOK]

An individual is capable of both great
compassion and great indifference.
He has it within his means to nourish the
former and outgrow the latter

[Anchor]

Nice thread - nice quotes.

An individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter

This is a nice quote from someone called Norman Cousins.

Here is another good one I found: "The dew of compassion is a tear...." - Lord Byron.

The opening paragraph of the original post is I beleive is a quote from Arthur Jersild

And one I really like:

"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.


AJ..

[BROOK]

A fitting time for the message, don't you think Anchor?

[Anchor]

Always.

There is never a time when compassion should be placed on hold.

AJ..

[Céline]

A fitting time for the message, don't you think Anchor?






Compassion:

A deep awareness of and sympathy for another's suffering

The humane quality of understanding the suffering of others and wanting to do something about it


Sympathetic consciousness of others' distress together with a desire to alleviate it.


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[SWIFT]

Nice Post:original:

[wynderer]

imo, a really good way for you humans to learn compassion is to stop killing & eating your brothers & sisters, the animals, who, unfortunately for them, share the planet w/you-- in my estimation, about 95% of you eat either their dead bodies, or secretions from them while they are kept in captivity, having been bred /dumbed down centuries ago -- i'm not addressing all the other ways you are cruel to them --

Stuart Wilde has been teaching people to go to other dimensions -- in a recent newsletter, he noted that only those who did not eat dead animals were able to make this shift

everything the reptilians are doing to humans, you have been doing to the animals for century upon century -- perhaps it is simple karma that has allowed the reptilians & buddies to rule this planet for so long

you all start eating meat as soon as you get teeth , or sooner, w/baby food & blenders available--imo, this is THE most de-sensitizing
collective activity of humans, guaranteeing a disconnect from your own innate compassion

i don't think Mother Earth is too pleased with this, & i know the Creator isn't

Peace & Freedom for All Beings, wynderer

[wynderer]

compassion
mid-14c., from O.Fr. compassion, from L.L. compassionem (nom. compassio) "sympathy," from compassus, pp. of compati "to feel pity," from com- "together" + pati "to suffer" (see passion). Loan-translation of Gk. sympatheia.

i.e., compassion means 'to suffer together,' 'to suffer with' -- anyone living on Earth now who is burdened w/compassion knows it is no fun -- it is definitely not a path to escape to the 'love & light' realms where it's 'all good'

Peace & Freedom, wynderer

[Carol]

Good gad! Brook is in the Mists!

This forum is like being around a dysfunctional family who refuses to discuss the elephant sitting in the middle of the living room. :wall:

What is wrong with you guys?

[wynderer]

sorry -- i don't know what 'in the mists' is -- it seems to me that the two forums here are going bonkers like the world in general is --

Peace & Freedom, wynderer

[Carmen]

Whats happened to Brook? Why is she still in the damm mist!!!!!?????

[ellie]

I could ask the same question Carmen, but I doubt I will get an answer.

There is someone over at the other camp I would love to put in the mists for about four months but I dont think that will be happening any time soon.:naughty::naughty:

[ellie]

In fact there is a smarmy, sarcastic remark been posted on Brooke's profile page from when she was sent to the mists, so Brooke could not doing anything about it.

Let's see anyone of you on the forum go to Brooke's page to see if you can work out what that remark is and get back here and let us know.

I do believe that member should be sent to the mists for doing that. Mmmmh.

[greybeard]

sorry -- i don't know what 'in the mists' is -- it seems to me that the two forums here are going bonkers like the world in general is --

Peace & Freedom, wynderer

Morning
In the mist is when you are disallowed from posting through some real or imagined infringement of the rules.

Yes the whole world is crazy at the moment, I put it down to a change in energy.
Assuming, lets say it is true that we are one with Mother earth.
Recently we have had at least two major earth quakes with much loss of life, it is no wonder that we are unsettled vibrationally.

Compassion is the greatesf form of love.
Lets show so some for those who are sensitve and therfore reactive at the moment.
There is no right or wrong as such.
Appropriate or not so appropriate may be a better way of looking at recent posts.

Relax my friends the ripples are dying down if we let them.

Chris

[aloha]

http://img40.imagefra.me/img/img40/2/3/19/mahalo/f_uc3m_6e9a1d5.jpg (http://imagefra.me/)
"When we have complete ease and perceptual openness in all our
experiences—especially the negative ones—then we find a superb
helpfulness already present within us, which like the sun, is always
shining. There’s a natural ease of being in which no one is a stranger.
Compassion never needs to be cultivated or developed—it is always
naturally present in awareness. In fact, compassion is equal to
awareness and can only be found in awareness. The compassion that
can be cultivated and developed is lifeless compared to the
unstoppable compassion that shows no bias. True compassion is totally
innocent and totally free. We can become acquainted with this
compassion only by seeing that awareness has complete mastery over
everything that appears in our thoughts, emotions, and experiences."
http://img38.imagefra.me/img/img38/2/3/19/mahalo/f_o9o2rm_58afe24.jpg (http://imagefra.me/)
"Just as the lotus arises out of the mud but is completely
unaffected by the mud, the beautiful flower of compassion appears out
of our deepest, darkest emotions, thoughts, and experiences."

[wynderer]

Chris -- thanks for explaining what 'in the mists' is -- this confirms my impression that the bonkers factor is affecting these forums ---

there seem to be two subsets of posts by many of the same posters -- high-sounding spiritual tidbits, & then a lot of quarrelling

Sun Bear used to say that 'if your philosophy doesn't grow corn, i don't want to hear about it' -- i guess we're all going to get the chance soon to see just how much corn our philiosophies grow -- the Earth changes alone will give us all a great chance to see just how loving & compassionate we all really are

Pracr & Freedom, wynderer

[Seashore]

Sun Bear used to say that 'if your philosophy doesn't grow corn, i don't want to hear about it' -- i guess we're all going to get the chance soon to see just how much corn our philiosophies grow -- the Earth changes alone will give us all a great chance to see just how loving & compassionate we all really are

Thank you.

Very meaningful! :thumb_yello:

[BROOK]

Well, I'm out of the dog house now, and allowed in the house again....and I will admit I got a bit strong...and pasionate about my opinions...however I will be a good girl from now on....I promise :naughty:

Thanks for all the emails I got from those who cared about me. But here I am...safe and sound :wink2:

Albert Einstein once said "A fellow who does things that count, doesn't usually stop to count them."

And that was my misting downfall...next time I wll be more careful to count them, and see if it is worth the time to count. :wub2:

After all, I'm sure out of the 3000 plus posts I've done here..I must have said something worth listening to :original: I did have some passion when writing the vortex 19.47 thread....not confrontational at all...check it out..and see if you can figure out how to map the universe with sacred geometry...now that's a challange

[BROOK]

And now for some compassion....


Pass it on
by Henry Burton


Have you had a kindness shown?
Pass it on;
'Twas not given for thee alone,
Pass it on;
Let it travel down the years,
Let it wipe another's tears,
'Til in Heaven the deed appears -
Pass it on.

[greybeard]

Hi Brook
Pleased your released.

Brings to mind Mae West.

Dont take this personally -- smiling

Mae said and I quote
"When Im good in good, and when im bad Im better!"

Well there is so much seriousness going on.
When we are light we are so much more compassionate.

A true story.
A friend of mine is a ski instructor.
He came upon an accident on the slopes.
People standing around an unconscious young woman who had a bleeding face.
All bemoaning the tragedy.
He stepped in and got a bundle of snow and very very firmly applied it to the wound, people arround were quite critical of the speed and force of the delivery, truth is the bleeding stopped and he probably saved her from needing stiches.

Sometimes love can appear tough, hence the expression tough love.

People do the best they can and I believe most are truly compassionate when push comes to shove, they will even risk their own lives in an emergency and that is true compassion.

Love Chris

[BROOK]

Good story graybeard! :thumb_yello:

[Céline]

great o see you back brook :)

[BROOK]

great o see you back brook :)

Great to be back :wink2:

[micjer]

Hi Brook . Missed you. :welcomeani:

I for one know you had a lot of interesting things to say.

[JesterTerrestrial]

Great to be back :wink2:

I WONDER WHOS COMING BACK NEXT!!!

I betcha your gonna see a few good folks return to the island.

once we get to the bottom of a few things around here!!!

:mfr_lol:

how

Well, I'm out of the dog house now, and allowed in the house again....and I will admit I got a bit strong...and pasionate about my opinions...however I will be a good girl from now on....I promise

ya right!!! LOL hahaaha go crazy...i have! :insane:

I did have some passion when writing the vortex 19.47 thread....not confrontational at all...check it out..and see if you can figure out how to map the universe with sacred geometry...now that's a challange

:thumb_yello:

Peace JT!

[BROOK]

I WONDER WHOS COMING BACK NEXT!!!

I betcha your gonna see a few good folks return to the island.

once we get to the bottom of a few things around here!!!

:mfr_lol:

how



ya right!!! LOL hahaaha go crazy...i have! :insane:



:thumb_yello:

Peace JT!


Jester...you are CRAZY WONDERFUl...never change....love it...love you :thumb_yello:

Peace Baby :wub2:

[sunny D]

:welcomeani: back Brook..........!:thumb_yello: