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IT’S HURT……BUT WHY?

Published 05/02/2013 by inspiringyourspirit

A beautiful article about Negative Emotions, Hurt and Detachment by a dear blogging friend of mine from India Supriya.

Supriya’s blog can be found here http://hopeoflight.wordpress.com/about/

I hope you enjoy it as much as I?

Namaste

Mark

 

Hello readers, many times in life we feel deeply hurt. Internal hurt is more painful than external hurt as no one able to see that the heart is crying and it will be more difficult if you are a sensitive person.
This question haunted me from a long time why something or someone hurt us so much? Why we feel pain in our heart? How can we able to cure this pain?
I asked people I tried to find its answer in book & everywhere. And the most common answer I get is “LOVE HURTS” as it said, “ Those who love us knows exactly where to hit to break the heart.” But frankly speaking, I didn’t find this answer helpful.
I always believe there must be some cure for this pain or hurt like we have medicines for body wounds.
So my today’s story is in search of that cure which heals our heart that feels hurt.

“HAPPY READING”

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Life is miserable for Diya. She feels everyone holding a hammer in their hand and as soon as they get the chance they hit hard on her heart. Whom she considers her love ones also do this.. She desperately needs some help to over come from this otherwise she gets mad. She didn’t want any temporary solution of this problem as she did in the past. This time she wants the actual answer to her question “ It hurts…. But why? And what’s the solution. She tried everything she could but not able to find any satisfied answer.

One day while she was going to meet one of her friend she saw a pamphlet “ Tell me your question” and in the end there was an email-id. Diya thought its not a harm to try this one also. So she mailed to that Id and after a few days she got a reply.
“Come & meet me at the below mentioned address.”

She thought maybe it’s a kind of joke? But then she thought if she wants to find the answer she have to go and see what it’s all about. She went to the place.
It’s a park near the university where she met a lady near the age of 55 or so. The lady greeted her with a smile and introduced her as a professor who likes to do social work in her free time.

Diya feels little hesitated to tell her problem to a stranger.
The lady insures her that whatever she will share it just between two of them.
Diya said, “ Ok…. I want to know why I feel so much hurt in my heart…. And what can I do to cure it.”
The lady asked, “ When you feel hurt most?”
Diya said, “Many times”
The lady asked, “ What hurt you most?”
Diya said, “ So many things… like at my work my boss never appreciate my work and always try to humiliate me in front of others. My colleagues pass comment on me. My friends also hurt me many times when they lie to me. My husband & my kids also sometimes become the reason of my hurt that I love the most. You know to a mother seeing their children suffers is the most painful thing. My elder son met an accident last year and still he is not able to walk properly. Could you image how much it’s hurt me?”

The lady nodded.
“ But now enough is enough I am not able to tolerate this pain more.”
The lady listen her calmly and after a few minutes she just said two words.
“ Practice Detachment”

“ What … what do you mean by that? What you want me to do to renounce my family and career for your kind information I am a family woman not any saint.” Diya said in disbelief.
The lady said, “ Calm down I am just trying to help you, don’t take me in wrong way.”
Diya said, “ Ok”
Let first understand why anything or anyone hurt us
Diya nodded
The lady gave her a book and said, “ Hold it tight.”
Diya does it as said.
The lady hit the book hardly with a stick.
Diya dropped the book and shout, “ What are you trying to do? You almost hit me.’
The lady said, “ I am sorry but I am trying to hit the book not you.”
“ How foolish is that. I am holding the book if you hit it I also get hurt.” Diya said annoyingly.
The lady said, “ TRUE…. That’s my point. Its call attachment whenever we attach our self with something or someone we get hurt. Remember what Buddhists say..

“Don’t cling to things, because everything is impermanent”

Diya asked, “Can you explain it a little more I am not able to absorb it fully.”
The lady nodded

Now I explain it taking those points which you told me in the beginning.
Suppose, you made a good report and when you go to show it to your boss you hope that your boss like it and you get promoted for your good work. But when your boss sees your work he gets angry and completely reject your report.
Now say how you will feel??
Diya replied, “ It’s hurt me?”

“Yes, you feel hurt because what you hoped didn’t happen.” Said the lady.
Diya asked, “ Do you mean I should not hope for good.”
The lady said, “I didn’t say that my point is hoping for good is not bad. The thing that hurt us is when we attach our self to the outcome and when the outcome doesn’t come the way we expected we feel hurt.”

“We are responsible for the effort not the outcomes.”

The second thing which hurt us is when someone ( especially those whom we consider our dear ones or friends) lie to us or said bad words to us. The thing that we should remember that time is…..

“Words only hurt when you allow yourself to believe them”

‘But how could that possible I know that they are doing wrong’ Diya protest.
‘True again but we are not talking here about right and wrong. Remember we have no control over others. People are free to say what they want. A lie or bad word said once but we keep them in our hearts & mind, and hurt our self by repeating the record again and again. Let them go and remember letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore. It’s just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.”

“Pain will leave you, when you let go”

Now the crucial point, we feel hurt most when our love one suffers.
For this you have to image two situations.
In first situation you and your son are walking. Your right hand ties with your son’s left hand. Suddenly your son fall down and hurt him.
‘What will happen to you and what can you do in this situation?’ the lady asked
Diya replied, “ I will also fall with him as we both are tied together and it might happen that I also get hurt myself too.”
‘Correct’

In the second situation when you and your son are walking but this time you and him are not tied together.
‘Now say what will happen to you and what will you do when you see your son get hurt?’
‘I pick him up and try to heal him’
‘Correct again’

In the first situation when our love ones going through pain we also go in pain as we are attached or say tie with them. That time when one needs someone strong to pick him or her up we choose to suffer with him or her. Its call attachment.

Diya asked in confusion, ‘ Wait… do you mean I should be emotion less and develop an attitude of I don’t care.’
Lady said, ‘No, absolutely not. We are human beings with emotions, we get connected with each other through these emotions not due to any biological reason. Due to emotions & feelings we are able to give love & show kindness toward everyone (it doesn’t matter we know them or not & its also not matter if its for human beings, animals or any non-living thing).

Emotions and feeling are like waves on a sea. See them, feel them and let them pass. Don’t allow yourself to cling to them otherwise those waves throw you out.

The second situation is an example of detachment. Detachment doesn’t mean you don’t let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate you fully. That’s how you able to leave it.
Being detached, you turn yourself in a person one who can love more deeply and care with compassion. Without detachment we always feel the fear. We are too busy being afraid. We are afraid of the pain. We are afraid of the grief. We are afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails.
Most of the time we live our life with that thought this or that thing hurt me in the past so it might be hurt me in the future.

Wash yourself with emotions. It won’t hurt you. It will help you to understand everything more clearly and deeply. When we are able to recognize the emotion and detach our self from it then only we able to be more compassionate, caring & loving.

Diya nodded and said, “ I need to reflect what I just heard. It’s a new thing for me.”
The lady said, ‘ Hmm… You should and whenever you need a talk & clear your thoughts you are most welcome.”
Diya said, ‘ I will but before I leave I have a last question. Do you able to completely detach?’
Lady said, ‘I know pain, hurt, sadness, and loneliness little better. I lost my husband and only daughter in a terror attack.’ Her eyes get moist.
‘But I am still a student who practicing detachment on a regular basis. I start my day with the affirmation that Mahatma Gandhi once said, “ No one can hurt me without my permission”’

Omnipresence of Peace

Published 03/02/2013 by inspiringyourspirit

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Peace is available to every person, every minute of the day, but how much peace do you experience? Is peace a prominent part of your existence, or is there something obstructing it? Is there a clog in your peace channel, or are you obstructing it?
Peace is similar to love; you either have it or you don’t. You are either in it or not. Peace and love are two qualities that are part of the Absolute; ultimately, there are no opposites for either of them. Some people believe there are opposites of these two qualities, but I ask you to look deeper than the surface. The absence of something is totally different from the opposite of something. Let’s use light as an example to illustrate my point. Some people believe that the opposite of light is dark; however, darkness is the absence of light, not its opposite. Even the dictionary explains this. The dictionary defines peace as “the freedom from disturbance.” Is not freedom from disturbance the same as the absence of disturbance? So where does the disturbance originate. Have you given that any thought or consideration?
I want to share a parable. Its origination is a bit vague; some sources say Buddha said it, some say Sai Baba said it, and some say a man asked God. Its source is irrelevant, simply because it describes a timeless truth, and timeless truths trickle down and touch the heart of whoever is truly listening.
Someone said to their teacher, “I want peace.” The teacher replied, “Remove the I, that is ego. Remove the want, that is desire, and peace is what you have left; peace will automatically be yours!”
What does this parable teach us? Without a shadow of doubt, it is the mind, and the qualities of the mind, such as ego and desire, that obstruct us from experiencing peace. Peace is available to all of us, every minute, every hour, every day; it is always there, but you are going to have to move beyond the mind to access it.

I have often asked my life-coaching clients to explain in their own words what they perceive to be the difference between happiness and joy, or happiness and peace. Some understand the point of my question immediately. Others are stumped and have never really given it much thought. So, let’s address it here and now.
Happiness is fleeting; it comes and goes. Happiness is a feeling that you experience when you are getting something you are wanting, or possibly not getting something that you do not want. Either way, happiness is in direct relation to something outside of you. Peace is a quality that exists independently, no matter what you are feeling in the moment. From the mind’s perspective, situations occur. Some situations bring about happiness, sometimes sadness, others bring about anger, and projections about the future can usher in fear.
However, peace is always there, if you are willing to look. Peace is autonomous, and is independently available no matter what you may be feeling. The key is to go deeper than the surface feeling, the transient comings and goings of the psyche/somatic dance of the mind and body. All feelings are momentary and are in direct relation to something else. Peace is unrestricted, unrestrained, boundless, infinite, and unconditional, but you will not find it traversing through the halls of your mind. After all, isn’t the mind, and its concepts (ego, ‘I,’ desire, duality, past, future, needs, time, etc.) the culprit of all disturbances?
The first key to accessing your peace is to know that it is always there. It may be temporarily covered up by your own thought forms or judgments, but it is still there. The second key is to go deeper than the surface of your feelings, not from the perspective of dishonoring or ignoring your feelings, just ‘deeper than’. In some cases, honoring your feelings can translate to accepting your feelings, and acceptance is one of the strongest links to accessing peace you will ever find. When you accept, there is no disturbance, there is no adversarial relationship.
Another way to access the available peace is to drop the labels and judgments of yourself and others, and to have a stronger determination to experience peace, than to engage with the temporal, fleeting feelings. Remember, your feelings will pass, but peace is omnipresent.

So when life’s circumstances, or more specifically, your judgments of life’s circumstances, stand between you and your experience of peace, it is a choice to not access your peace.

Namaste with Love
Mark

Article by Vedam Clementi. Vedam is a spiritual teacher, life coach, meditation coach, author, and lecturer. Vedam has a unique way of uniting psychological and spiritual tools that support the individual to relate to themselves, others, and life in a new way: openly, lovingly, and authentically.
Learn more by visiting http://www.vedamclementi.com

Don’t Be Afraid to do the Right thing!

Published 30/01/2013 by inspiringyourspirit

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Change

Published 29/01/2013 by inspiringyourspirit

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“What I’ve experienced is that I can’t know the future. I can’t know if anything that I do will change what happens tomorrow. I can’t know with certainty, but what I do know is if I do nothing, nothing will change.”

Namaste

Mark

Change Your Thoughts

Published 26/01/2013 by inspiringyourspirit

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Go with the Flow

Published 25/01/2013 by inspiringyourspirit

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Meditating With Your Spirit Guides

Published 24/01/2013 by inspiringyourspirit

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Many people have challenges with the concept of meditation and just exactly what it means. They want to understand how to attain that beautiful state of peaceful bliss. For those practicing advanced spirituality, meditation helps them to strengthen the connection to their source energy. The guides, ascended masters and angels who help convey knowledge, insight and healing heed to this connection. While in a high vibrational state of meditation, you are completely able to control the physical body with the spiritual body and be conscious of it; thereby training your mind to stay in this state while awake. Your body can be in a constant state of renewal and recharge if you are channeling in higher realms during meditation.
The first thing to realize is it is your state of mind and not your location that matter. Some people can meditate and connect in the middle of a crowded and noisy room. They can also zoom in on people and situations going on before anyone else notices a thing. Others are too distracted by every noise and movement in the room to be able to maintain the focus they need.
Your own personal spirit guides surround you at all times with their vibrational energy. When you tap into this stream of spiritual light, their light becomes one within you, and combined with the energy from the Source, it heals our every need. This is the energy of miracles. This amazing force calls upon the Angels. They can hear our prayers, answer our calls to be healed, and lifted up into the vibration of joy and absolute peace. This is the peace all of us long to feel as soon as we are born here. This is the spiritual consciousness that thrives in us and connects us all.
The light which radiated from us when we came here, that we think we might have lost sometimes, is only a prayer, a vision, or a thought away. The ability to call on the souls in the consciousness who love us fearlessly and unconditionally is the super power of pure love which created us to which we will always return to.
As you become accustomed to the energy and the light your guides are bringing in with them, you will start discovering your own unique abilities to communicate. It takes courage and practice. There are many signs of awakening you can experience and build on to strengthen your bond with the souls who are there to assist you from the light. You may be able to feel a presence, a blast of air, a touch on your forehead or hear a bell ring. All of these signs are telling you that your meditations are successful.
Each of us may have our own ways of connecting in our prayers and meditations. There are no rules. If Spirit is coming through to you and healing your needs and comforting your fears, where and how you connect makes no difference. Whether you are standing at the top of a mountain looking out at a beautiful valley or kneeling in a great cathedral, just know you are worthy of all the love you are receiving.

Namaste
Mark

Article by:Judi Lynch. Judi lives near Huntsville, AL and works full time as a Psychic Medium, Spiritual Adviser, Healing Energy Channel, Author and Teacher. She is the founder of the Crystal Healing Foundation, Inc., a 501(c)3 non-profit charity dedicated to Healing through raising spiritual consciousness with psychic communication, energy healing, ascension awareness, crystals and meditation. Her first book “Friends with Lights, A True Story” is available on Amazon. Judi is also a Featured Columnist for OM Times Magazine.

Four Pebbles for your Pocket Meditation

Published 23/01/2013 by inspiringyourspirit

Thich Nhat Hanh’s valuable meditation Video  to remind us of our flower freshness, mountain solidity, calm water clarity and spacious freedom. Wonderfully presented by Plum Village brother Thay Phap Huu.

Concentrate your focus on your breathing.

Flowers represent Freshness
Mountains represent stability
Water represents stillness and reflection
Space represents freedom for your self and your loved ones.

Namaste
Mark

The Most Important Question You Can Ask

Published 20/01/2013 by inspiringyourspirit

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If you are working on your spiritual self the most important question is –

“What do I feel about me…right now?”

Having self-esteem means learning to love the one you see in the mirror first, and then taking care of the rest of the world.

Having self-esteem means… I think loving thoughts about myself.
Having self-esteem means… I behave in loving ways towards myself.
Having self-esteem means… I react in loving ways towards myself.
Having self-esteem means… My actions are consistently loving towards myself.
Having self-esteem means… I trust myself and my judgement.

If you feel good about the one you see in the mirror… then reward the child within with a small treat… something special 🙂

If you feel bad about yourself… then don’t beat yourself up, don’t fall prey to guilt and shame, just see in your minds eye that next time you’ll do things differently.

You’re not perfect, no one is perfect, and you came to this planet as the Divine essence of God to learn… and love yourself at the same time.

That’s the most important aspect of self-esteem… learning to love yourself as you learn.

So Love Yourself and start enjoying what this life has to offer 🙂

Namaste
Mark

Awards and Gratitude

Published 19/01/2013 by inspiringyourspirit

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Awards….I have recently received two more nominations for blogging awards from two of my blogging friends and although I abstain from entering into the receipt and process of accepting and taking part in the award process due to the time it takes to complete..I must say I am Always Grateful for these nominations because they are sent with Love and as an appreciation for what I am trying to do through my blog…

So a big THANK YOU to..

Sofia

http://sofiasiberia.com  for the Reality Blog Award.

Sofia is a writer, esoteric, natural empath, a lovely sensitive person and a free spirit with great awareness as to what is going on in this world.

Also to Ajaytao

http://ajaytao2010.wordpress.com  for the Versatile Blog Award.

Ajaytao is Opening himself up to the world and living his life with Strength, Endurance and Wisdom.

Thank you my friends 🙂

Namaste with Love, Affection and Joy.
Mark

Compassion , Love and Responsibility

Published 19/01/2013 by inspiringyourspirit

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Cherishing the vulnerable Child

Published 17/01/2013 by inspiringyourspirit

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Many people feel alone, unloved, and unworthy… and those feelings spring from within. When we start seeing how wonderful we are, how supportive, caring, and nurturing we can be, life takes on a whole new light.
But it takes opening up our soul and acknowledging our pain, suffering, and feelings of being alone before we can start healing. We must first embrace the inner child’s feelings… thus opening ourselves up to be vulnerable.
In this day and age being vulnerability is looked upon as weakness, something to be shunned and pushed away. But in reality we become “real” in the process of opening ourselves up to all our flaws… thus we can change. For growth never happens to a sapling it if shuns all the manure that’s piled up around the trunk… and fertilizer for the soul is just what we need to challenge our perceptions of who we think we are.
There is no way we can go out on a limb and be strong without first being vulnerable to our own faults. Those in leadership positions who think they have all the answers are not willing to open up and be vulnerable, vulnerability means they can be wrong… that’s something we are missing right now.
Being real means we can express our feelings deeply and know that it’s great. For we are being genuine and truthful and at the same time being caring and compassionate.
Being vulnerable means it’s OK to be afraid, but if we cover our fears with ego, ego takes over sending us in a direction where we are puffed up with the egos need to be right… unable to hear the truth.
For there is great strength in being vulnerable, and great strength in truth, for truth in the end is another word for peace, and peace is what we deserve as children of God, the Cosmos, The Tao, and the Universe.

Source Dr Paul Haider

Namaste
Mark

Fond and Happy Memories of a Great Man ‘Gentleman John’..My Dad

Published 13/01/2013 by inspiringyourspirit

Dad at 81

Dad, today like everyday we are thinking and praying for you, but this day is special because it marks the 1st anniversary of your passing to a higher and more enlightened place and although the loss of you from our physical lives is still hard to deal with, your gentleness, compassion and humanity remains with us each and everyday, Dad you made me what I am today and I will ‘Always’ be forever grateful to you for the light you gave me throughout our physical time on earth together, you touched me every single day of my life, by words, by thought and by your loving energy.. R.I.P with the love of your life Marion ‘Mum’, you will ‘Always’ remain in my heart.

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Namaste and Love
x x x Mark

Change is the Prelude to Growth

Published 10/01/2013 by inspiringyourspirit

Change:

You cannot start the next chapter in your life if your keep re-reading the last one….

Running away from any problem only increases your distance from the solution. The easiest way to escape from the problem is to Solve it!..

The Past is where you learned the Lesson.
The Future is where you Apply the Lesson…

What you Can Become depends upon what you Can Overcome…

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.

Please watch this short video on Change

Namaste

Mark

A Fantastic Disabled Arts Performance: Video

Published 09/01/2013 by inspiringyourspirit

Brought even more tears to my eyes!…Disabilities should never set you back, and we should never dismiss the abilities of the disabled.

Guanyin or Kwanyin, the Goddess of Mercy.

~ China Disabled People’s Performing Art Troupe, “Thousand-hand Guan Yin”

Guan Yin is a Chinese goddess. The performers are feeling the music through speakers and guided by hand gestures, a troupe of deaf dancers in Beijing take steps to champion the rights of disabled people across the world ~

” Being deaf and mute, these disabled female performers endure pain and suffering in vigorous training, simply to deliver a message of love to mankind. “

Intend to be Love

Published 07/01/2013 by inspiringyourspirit

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Quiet the mind
Be still
And watch the breath of God
Rise and fall
In all things.

Allow God’s breath
To be your breath;
Allow God’s nature
To be your nature.

The nature of God
Is to love and be loved;
Your desire to love creates intention,
Intention focuses attention,

Attention illuminates understanding,
Understanding manifests forgiveness,
Forgiveness is the essence of Love.

Intend to be Love.

Namaste
Mark

Compassion

Published 06/01/2013 by inspiringyourspirit

The Practice of Compassion

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As we access and grow on the spiritual path, we inevitably prepare ourselves for the understanding of the requirements needed for our final liberation from the Wheel of Samsara.
Above all, the foremost prerequisite for this realization is the knowing of self. It is no surprise there was written on the top of the gates of the temple of Delphi the inscription that said: “Know Thyself”. This is no doubt the beginning of a life-long journey of self-discovery.
On this voyage through the many aspects and phases of life, we discover that we are not condemned to live at the mercy of the waves of fate as mere animals. One of the primary lessons we are to learn by living a human experience is the knowledge of Compassion.

What is the exact meaning of Compassion?

There is a Zen Buddhist story that illustrates the feeling of Compassion:

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“Two monks were washing their bowls in the river when they noticed a scorpion that was drowning. One monk immediately scooped it up and set it upon the bank. In the process he was stung. He went back to washing his bowl and again the scorpion fell in. The monk saved the scorpion and was again stung. The other monk asked him, “Friend, why do you continue to save the scorpion when you know its nature is to sting?”
“Because,” the monk replied, “to save it is my nature.”
True Happiness – True Compassion
The true understanding of Compassion arises from the realization that every sentient being on this life journey is after the pursuit of happiness and the ceasing of all pains and sufferings. This is the inherent desire behind all actions. Sometimes, the real requisite of happiness is mascaraed by the demands of the Ego, creating a plethora of factual needs based on external situations and material goods that are, in the end, altogether incapable to provide the soul with the nourishment that it is really after. The Ego creates a veil of illusion, where everything and everybody exists from a pinpoint view of self-reference, always geared towards the individual’s idea of his own happiness.
Often, the Ego feels threatened and vigorously tries to defend its views, victories and conquered territories; and quite often immerses into a blindness of action that causes the suffering and pain of others, all in the name of its self-preservation and personal rights.
True happiness only can exist through a process of integration, understanding and healing. Every sentient being, Human, animal, plant, mineral; are all part of One Universal Cosmic essence: whatever transformation that may occur to any of these parts affects the rest of the Creation.
“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.”
~ Walt Whitman
In this way we can say that if some beings are upholding their rights and means to be happy for themselves while excluding others, they are, in truth, only accentuating a created systemic unbalance inside of the Universal Laws. When we speak of happiness, we are not referring, per se, to what can be reached materially and incite temporary satisfaction of our senses and Egoic anxieties; we are discussing the transcendent pursuit of bliss and liberation that thrives as an instinctive necessity underlining human nature.
Only after one awakens to the journey of spiritual life and self-development, it is possible to understand our true nature and origin. Only then we are able to fully perceive the depth and width of free will, the immutable Cosmic Laws, the requirements of being a true co-creator and the realization that we are all different manifestations from the same Source. Only through the acceptance of common ground and rights of happiness, can we safely journey towards liberation from the worlds of Samsara.
Compassion versus Sympathy
Even though many people tend to mistake these two concepts as the same thing, Compassion originates from a different place than sympathy. Sympathy comes from the realms of the personality, of the Ego. It is often accompanied by the feeling of pity and superiority with heavy tones of judgment and discrimination. Sometimes one is moved to help another less fortunate as a means of broadcasting their “goodness” and “piety” and in doing so, they deepen the differences between the beings. This is because rarely is the gesture sponsored by the true understanding of the suffering of the other, which comes from a sincere heart.
Compassion is, on the other hand, a spiritual skill and a “Fruit of the Spirit” and is a natural offshoot of a mature heart. It is the ability to connect at a heart level with another and it comes from the unconditional understanding of the nature of suffering on a personal level. Its actions are based on ways to mitigate sorrow, pain and fear through one’s own experience over sufferings. It is said that pain is one of the great teachers, and certainly suffering as well are the masters that instill the lessons of Compassion inside of one’s heart.
Having said that, one does not need to have experienced a particular pain for one to feel Compassion for others in that state. When we connect at a heart level to another with the full understanding of Oneness with the other, Compassion flows.
Compassion involves the unconditional opening of the heart. It is a donation of one’s energy, without preconditions or requirements or judgments. It requires the strength of soul to withstand within itself the suffering of others, until the relief and real healing can start. We usually see this soul skill present in the daily life of first responders of tragedies. Independently of the fact that these individual perform their daily tasks professionally, we nevertheless perceive the immanent soul skill at work.
The ayurvedic wisdom teaches that there are different stages of the Compassionate aptitude, according with the physical and diverse spiritual condition of each individual. For Instance, they classify as Pravaram the natural ability of an individual to withstand a high degree of hardship and suffering, along with adverse conditions, while generally facing them with a degree of grace and hope. They also classify a second level of this skill asMadhyamam, which is the individual ability to endure other’s suffering only when the individual has a personal web of love and support himself and the need for continuous reassurance that they are not the only ones that are experiencing suffering.
In any case, Compassion requires action and mindfulness. To simply be upset about a tragic situation, such as hearing about a natural disaster or tragedy, and then to decide to do nothing about it and go about the own daily activities is not what Compassion is about. Compassion incites our souls to move ourselves out of our comfort zone, acting on the knowledge that something from you can relieve and bring a discharge of a hardship of someone’s life. It is a true communion and connection of hearts. Through this soul skill one can create etheric cords that will facilitate the pulling of other’s heart, facilitating the removal of the pains that are oppressing their being. It does not mean to enter into the frequency of another’s suffering, but a resolution in changing the vibration of these emotions.
It should be noted that when we say “Compassion requires action”, we are not talking about violent action. Compassion and violence are anathema to each other. Helping a being, human or animal, by committing violence towards another, directly or indirectly, is an action not rooted in the heart, but in the Ego, and typically done for self-promotion.
Compassion is more than just an attitude; it is a way of living, a way of mature souls, ready to help others back onto the path towards their own liberation.

Namaste

Mark

The Waves of Love

Published 04/01/2013 by inspiringyourspirit

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Love flows into a clear mind
Ripples outward to those in need.

Your kind deeds, your loving thoughts
Travel invisible pathways,
Elevate rulers and ruled alike
A world, even worlds away.
Likewise, your faith
May light a thousand cities
Endowing both the kindly and the cruel.

Strength in one is strength in all
And light in one brings light to all.
The truth about yourself is healing.
Don’t hold anything back.

Namaste
Mark

A Song About Love. At Last

Published 02/01/2013 by inspiringyourspirit

AT LAST

A Song about Love by Etta James.

At last
My love has come along
My lonely days are over
And life is like a song

Oh yeah yeah
At last

The skies above are blue
My heart was wrapped up in clover
The night I looked at you

I found a dream, that I could speak to
A dream that I can call my own
I found a thrill to press my cheek to
A thrill that I have never known

Oh yeah yeah
You smiled, you smiled
Oh and then the spell was cast
And here we are in heaven
for you are mine…

At Last

Happy New Year sent with Love.

Published 31/12/2012 by inspiringyourspirit

Love

Well here we are at the end of yet another year, another year filled with challenges, sadness, uncertainty, conflict, natural disasters, famine and wars. But yet we have managed to find our way though, each day trying our best for the good of humanity, holding out our hands to help others manage their grief, their heartache and their sadness, we have used our compassion to assist those in need and offered our love through our smiles, hugs, light and energy.
2013 I’m sure will be filled with more of the same such challenges but we will continue to reach out one day and to one person at a time, reach out our hands and extend our hearts to others and through our love and kindness make a difference to all those we come into contact with.

May I wish you all a Very Happy New Year and may the Light of Love and Compassion be with you each and every day throughout 2013.

Namaste
Mark