07.05.2014

Amazing Blue Dragon River,
Portugal...
Determination
Determination brings the
strength to continue, the steadiness to succeed, and the
wisdom to slip past difficulties undisturbed.
Accurate
Understanding of Knowledge
The one
who has the knowledge to know the right thing also has
the power to do it. So there is equality in thoughts,
words and actions. That means we are able to bring into
action what we think and speak. If there is no equality,
it means there is not an accurate understanding of
knowledge.
The Triangle Of Spiritual
Energy (cont.)
Referring to yesterday's message, in the triangle of
harmonious energy, all three points (the self, the
Supreme and others) need to be equidistant - not too
much one way or the other. The equidistant triangle
in ancient mathematics was the symbol of harmony.
Harmony, peace, order and balance is what is natural in
human life and if we wish to return to that condition,
we need to realize the importance of equidistant
relationships. It requires constant attention to keep
the three points in balance and in working order.
Otherwise, when we get over-focused on any one of the
three, we become inflexible. This inflexibility causes
us to go out of balance and the result is disharmony and
disunity, which can also be called 'violence', an
unnatural condition, or even hell when it reaches an
extreme point.
In order to maintain a
balance between the three, I need silence: times of
introspection when I can check the flow of three of my
relationships - with the self, Supreme Source and
others. This checking mechanism protects, sustains and
develops the qualities of these three points.
Soul Sustenance
Discovering Inner Compassion (Kindness) –Part 3
When we try to
describe compassion, it is worth looking at the words
sympathy, empathy and interpathy.
Showing sympathy towards another person's
suffering is acknowledging their suffering, for example,
'I am sorry that you have hurt yourself'. We recognize
that they are injured or ill without really engaging at
a feeling level.
Empathy is when we literally share a feeling with
someone, we walk in their shoes, for example, 'I feel
really upset that you are so depressed about losing your
job'. This can bring great comfort to the person we are
empathizing with, but the comfort to them can be at our
expense and leave us feeling emotionally drained or sad.
If we identify too closely with them, it can also make
it difficult for us to help them.
An expansion of empathy is a word called interpathy
where we relate to another's suffering although we may
not understand why they are suffering. This may be
because they are from a different culture or because
their feelings may seem inappropriate given the
situation, but we are curious, we try to understand.
Compassion is all these words — sympathy,
empathy, interpathy - yet it is more and it is less.
We acknowledge someone’s sorrow, we sense how they feel,
we try to understand how it affects them, yet with
compassion we do not become emotionally involved. We are
engaged yet detached. We are standing back and looking
on with kindness. By showing compassion in this way, it
allows us to be compassionate without suffering from
'compassion fatigue' or 'emotional burnout'.
Message for the day
When we change, our
world changes.
Expression:
We usually wait for the world to
change, sometimes the world at large and sometimes our
own little world. Since it is not in our hands we don't
find it changing according to what we want and we give
up trying. We rarely think of changing ourselves, which
is possible.
Experience:
When we change, our thoughts and attitudes change too.
We are then able to look at the people and our world
around us with a different vision. Thus, we find that
our world changes, not so much in the situation as much
as in our own perception.