Compassion

[Geoff-Allen]

Life is tough. Without compassion, life is even tougher.

A Guide to Cultivating Compassion in Your Life, With 7 Practices : zen habits

 

[Sunstone]

Compassion seems to be a lens of some sort through which we often enough get a more realistic understanding of people than we would have otherwise.

I try to cultivate compassion for everyone. Except @Debater Slayer . I don't try to cultivate it for Debater Slayer.

 

[sun rise]

I'm working on this. It's hard when it comes to some politicians. For me, very very hard.

 

[Geoff-Allen]

Compassion seems to be a lens of some sort through which we often enough get a more realistic understanding of people than we would have otherwise.

I try to cultivate compassion for everyone. Except @Debater Slayer . I don't try to cultivate it for Debater Slayer.

Compassion for "everyone" is great in theory but it can be a real challenge when confronted with a lot of negativity from certain people - no pun intended

Keep up the good work!

 

[Geoff-Allen]

Saying "life is tough" may have been a bit glum from me ... maybe I should have said something like this:

Life-as-it-is-experienced-by-most-people is very challenging. Even MORE challenging if you try to go through life without cultivating compassion for your fellow human beings.

End of sermon

 

[Geoff-Allen]

I'm working on this. It's hard when it comes to some politicians. For me, very very hard.

In that case, try switching to compassion for yourself and all others who are in the same boat who want to feel compassion but can't quite manage it all-the-time!

I sure find it a constant challenge - but as I said in anoother thread - challenges make life interesting & meaningful. If nobody suffered, the word compassion would lose all meaning.

You're lucky today - two sermons at no charge!

 

[Sunstone]

I'm working on this. It's hard when it comes to some politicians. For me, very very hard.

It used to be hard for me too, but then I read of a survey that showed an impressive 68% of scientists these days are convinced politicians actually are members of Homo sapiens, rather than members of Homo imbecilus, as was originally believed. That's helped me to see them in a new light.

 

[Geoff-Allen]

It used to be hard for me too, but then I read of a survey that showed an impressive 68% of scientists these days are convinced politicians actually are members of Homo sapiens, rather than members of Homo imbecilus, as was originally believed. That's helped me to see them in a new light.

Yes - enlightened leaders of democratic countries are a rare breed! They need all our prayers and compassion and then some ...

Not to be TOO cynical:

"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."

Winston Churchill

 

[Geoff-Allen]

“Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.”

~ Guess who!