Understanding Compassion and Empathy

There is Compassion

And there is Empathy.

To understand either of these

you kinda gotta understand the evolution of the human soul.

This is a big subject

And one that requires 

Strength

Silence

and Love

To Grasp

OK, so I've always had a Problem

 with the concept of ,"Compassion." 

I mean all the NEWAGE stuff

talkin bout Compassion.

Even the Dalai Lama constantly talking about it.

I Mean, Buddha and Christ

one of them, maybe both were called,

The "Lords of Compassion".

And the "Church" always talkin bout how the best thing you can do to be a good human

is to be compassionate.

And so this thing, "Compassion"

developed to mean..

Exactly what the word says,

Com = Sharing

Passion = An intense emotional response.

We are sharing someone else's Trauma,

the Drama.

Because we get it,

We been there, 

done sumpin like that.

And somehow by being ,"compassionate,

we are actually just Sharing their Drama.

Now instead of one person drowning in the quicksand of intense emotional reactions

you have 2 people drowning.

You jumped right in with them.

You see, I always had a problem with that.

It seemed to me we'd all be better served if

Rather than jumping in to the Emotional whirlpool.

We remain silent

and Loving...

Then we could actually see maybe what we could do to help

that person's evolution. 

And here's the thing..

You can't really be right there with them.

You can resonate their current emotional upheaval

with something in your own old past Drama.

You see it,and know it through that.

You can't really see it for what it is.

Compassion Serves the Ego.

How does it do this?

It reinforces the drama/the placement of that persons life

within some separate unique expression. 

It feeds the drama that they have built their life upon.

Assisting the ego/soul in it's culmination in Expression.

But then there is Empathy

Empathy serves the Soul.

Empathy comes when we suspend judgment..

when we follow our hearts,

and not the Dualistic description of What Is.

Empathy comes when we open all channels

and attach nothing of our own to it.

So now I gotta really throw a wrench in it and tell you

something that is actually Genetically repugnant within most souls,

thanks to Lifetimes of what I just might as well call it what it was..

...and is...

and that's ,"PROGRAMMING"

Here it is:

And this is at the crux of Understanding True Compassion

which is Empathy.

The Ego

and the Soul

ARE ONE IN THE SAME THING

only at different points of Evolution.

Ponder that for a sec.

 

The Ego

and the Soul

ARE ONE IN THE SAME THING

only at different points of Evolution.

So now we gotta talk about the evolution of the soul/ego.

Wow,

here's another big one I gotta bring into little tiny words.

Every soul begins with an Impulse.

an impulse towards creating itself into

some separate...and unique...expression.

Every soul that exists has a certain unique separate expression to make.

Unique

Separate

Ponder those words.

And Balance in this World

and Of this World

is not attained by trying to make everyone else more like us.

Rather it's Us Allowing others

to be exactly who they are meant to be.

And Us 

Being true to who we are.

Don't hold back your words because 

speaking your truth might offend another person.

And do not be offended

when another speaks their truth

OK, what the heck, I'm gonna put in the G word

We each and All

 are like the Cells that make God

And God is Healthy and Balanced

when each cell within it All

is exactly being itself.

So here's the thing.

When the soul is seeking this Unique Separate Expression..

We call the soul

 the ego.

But once it has made it's expression...

esoterically one says

The wheel turns back upon itself....

And the soul is returning from where it came..

back through

where it's been.

And now we call it ,"the soul".

But it's the same thing...

just at a different place in it's evolution.

And the reason I'm bringing this up is that.

We need to understand that

EVERYBODY

has a right to do what they do.

Those Greedy bastards

making war for profit..

Pharmaceutical companies 

making people sick

and then bleeding them dry

with the help of the Medical Profession

the Government..

The big money corporations...

All making war for profit..

You know what,

It sucks

but they have to do it...

It is what impels them towards their particular separate unique expression.

You know one reason why we can't easily access our past lives...

Because we don't think we have the strength to see just

how screwed up we were.

And that's the thing

We've all been Greedy Bastards...

And to really look at the big Pic.

We are One thing.

There is no part of  all us 

that is not Us.

So you spiritual guru folks out there,

stop dissing the Ego.

Not one of you has not been ruled by it.

You see part of the ....

Workings of this God that we make up is..

We must all go through

creating that separate unique expression..

and those Workings provided 

DUALITY

as our tool and operating arena..

Pleasure

and Pain

You desire one

and Fear and shun the other..

So upon these things we find our unique expression within the All.

Then the wheel turns..

and now we're looking back over all that running around chasing pleasure

and avoiding pain.

And we're pretty good at lookin at the pleasure part,

but we've buried the painful parts as deep as we could...

So now the souls task changes,

from seeking that separate expression through duality...

to being able to travel over that old land..

without Judgment,

beyond the Duality.

Invariably in those travels we will come upon 

reflections of our own hidden Fears.

Our old habit was to shun them...

To go to War with them and pretend they aren't Us.

To bury them as deep as we could so we wouldn't have to see who we "were". 

But now 

we must embrace them.

You could say that the evolution

of All the Souls

Is the Life of God.

And here's another one..

God Reincarnates..

God has more than one Life

Guess what..

God is not some Perfect Done Deal

God is evolving

as we ALL EVOLVE

because WE ALL ARE GOD.

And we are evolving..

People like to say that,

"God is all knowing." 

and the fact is that

God knows all that is Known..

It's built into what God is...

But There is more for God to Know..

Just like you know everything within who you are and what you have been through and all you have ever known....

but you still have more outside of what you know

to know..

So does God..

In fact that's the whole point of God

Really Really Basic..

To Become.

And to become

through a Knowing. 

And each soul,

is a creative cell in that Knowing.

In fact why don't we change the name God to 

The Becoming..

he he

It cracks me up how you have these folks in narrow ruts arguing about Evolution/versus....

God just going Poof and makin it all happen.

When the truth is

that "Poof"

has taken an eon to happen...

and is still happenning

because GOD IS EVOLVING.

Too funny.

OK Bottom line

For God to Become

what God is to Be

We each have to become

who we are to be..

So maybe you are a sweet one

of pure heart

of loving soulful intention,

of a giving nurturing nature. 

I'll hang with you OK..

Or maybe you are a greedy

materialistic

ego centered 

self serving 

seeker of a unique separate expression

at all cost.

(which it always is)

My point is...

to understand True Compassion

we must see that

It all has it's place.

Forgiving our ,"Sinful brothers and Sisters",

is the same thing as forgiving

Ourselves.

Let it Be.

So I'm not saying we should sit idly by while we see some person harming another...

Unless that's really who we are.

We have to allow ourselves to be who we are...

no matter what..

So if someone is doing something

that you think is harmful...

it's your job to do just what you feel you should do,

while acknowledging that that person is doing the same thing. 

Because each of us being in our True Place.

allows others to do the same,

because we are all interconnected...

If we aren't true to Ourselves

we are not true to anyone else.

And God will be out of Balance.

The best thing each of us can do for ourselves/each other/US ALL.

Is to Be true to ourselves.

And to never forget.

to some people this means following their ,"EGO"

and for others it means following their Soul.

And the difference between Compassion...and Empathy is

Compassion is from Ego

Empathy is from the Soul

But as I said

"soul and ego are the same thing."

So the actual Truth of this all is that

Just as Soul and ego are the same thing, 

only at different points on the wheel, 

Compassion

and Empathy

are the same thing...

...only at different stages

 on the wheel of evolution.