What is Compassion?
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Compassion is born in the heart of the Pure Self and is motivated by unconditional love. Love moves through compassion, expressing mercy, kindness, and forgiveness. When trials come, embrace them as opportunities for growth. We learn compassion for others through challenging circumstances that we endure ourselves. Sensitivity arises with compassion. With the energy of love and understanding, it feels the problems contributing to the suffering and disharmony existing in others and moves us to action. Love and compassion should rule the individual, the community, alias, the nations and the world.
Compassion is not self-serving. Compassion is more concerned with helping to heal and support others. Compassion sets aside the negative desires of the false self, the ego-centered personality, to perform the greater good for all minerals, plants, animals, and people. Selfless service is indeed a work of the heart, which is the center of decision within the pure Self. Compassion is the lion heart, the warrior king, the individual performing selfless service to help others mentally, physically, and spiritually. This is the individual through whom Divine Spirit loves to work. (Inspired Source: “Sacred Science.”)
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September 7th, 2008 at 11:04 am
Compassion being described here reminds me of what I call unconditional love. This is my thoughts about unconditional love (or compassion if you prefer):
I am sure you hear the term “unconditional” love, but what does it mean? How do we as humans apply 100% love in an unconditional way? How is love not unconditional? What conditions do humans put on love? Is unconditional love a practical teaching?
When I speak of unconditional love with people, the usual response I get, is in one of two ways:
1. People assuming that unconditional love is something that only a ’saint’ would be able to master.
2. Defining unconditional love, as the natural love they have for all their loved ones.
What Does Unconditional Love Mean?
The obvious definition, is love without condition. Yet, that does not give it enough credit, to accurately describe the meaning.
Unconditional love is, the ability to put yourself in another persons shoes under any situation or condition. In other words, not matter what is happening in your environment, how (’another makes’) you feel, or what you think of another: you choose to always put yourself in the position of others and treat them exactly how you would like to be treated (under any condition, even if they are ‘your enemy’).
What is the Difference Between Unconditional and Conditional Love?
All love is a State of Being in which is naturally unconditional. Yet, the way that love is expressed or seeked-out can influence that love to be conditioned. Love that is conditional says: “I love you, but…”. Unconditional love says: “I love you for who you really are! Period.”.
How Can Love Be Processed in this Way for a Stranger or Enemy?
Conditioned love is seen through emotion. If you wait around for an emotional reaction, that feels like love, then you are choosing to love based on a chemical reaction alone.
Unconditional love is seen through the filter of choice. You literally choose to understand that under the right conditions, you can have love (a emotional reaction) for ANYBODY. You choose to love another, based on the knowledge that we all feel love and are capable of being loving. Therefore, you treat them as you yourself would desire to be treated. You choose to have a connection with all human beings, even before the connection is felt through the emotional charge of a chemical response.
Why Would Anybody Choose to Love a Stranger or Enemy In This Way?
There are infinite reasons why one would choose unconditional love, based on: perspective, expectations, experience, and belief. Yet, when a question like this is asked, it is coming from a self-centered approach of: “What do I get out of it?”. Therefore, we will answer this question, through self-concern.
* Boost in Confidence - One main observation, you will notice through living in this manner, is a boost in self-confidence. The reason being, is because your focus changes from self, to everyone else. Instead of focusing on ‘your faults’ in thoughts, words, and interactions with others, your focus is continously on how to approach (communicate/ behave) others the way you would like to be approached.
* Your Comfort Level Heightens - When you are continously allowing yourself to walk in others shoes, you are automatically influencing people to be comfortable around you. You can consciously (and subconsciously) see/ feel their comfort level (through words, actions, body language, emotional stimulations, tone of voice, and intermingle of consciousnesses between each other) , which gives you the ability to feel more comfortable on every level.
* You Have More Successful Relationships - Feeling more comfortable allows a person to be themselves around you more easily. You can get to know people quicker with a reliable impression of them, which helps you make successful choices in the types of relationships (romantic, business, etc) you follow through on.
* All Judgments Stop - Through this constantly treating others as yourself, you stop judging people and it affects the nature of others to stop judging you through your example.
How Does One Apply Unconditional Love in this Manner?
After 22 days of doing something constantly, your subconscious programs itself to put it into habit. Habits are made possible by the subconscious mind taking over for the conscious mind. In other words, you will automatically apply unconditional love without conscious effort or thought.
Therefore, keep a reminder to yourself to always put yourself in others shoes and to treat them as if you were them (for at least 22 days).
How Does One Apply Unconditional Love, in an Abusive Relationship?
Being unconditionally loving, is about loving yourself unconditionally first. You cannot love another without first knowing love within yourself. You must feel and give unconditional love to yourself, before you can accept and expect to give unconditional love to another, in this way you experience it first hand. If it is not first experienced within Self, then there is no reference point to begin giving unconditional love. There must be a relatable experience within, to connect at the level of unconditional love.
Therefore, if someone is treating you harshly (emotionally, mentally, or physically), then you do what you can to treat yourself the way you would like to be treated, by not allowing relationships that are destructive to self. Sometimes the best way you can unconditionally love somebody, is to empower them to help themselves without you.
It is not difficult to love yourself, once you find the greatest parts of yourself
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