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Greetings, I am an artist from Australia looking to develop a work based on Tibetan Prayer wheels that looks at the commonalities between religions.  I am particularly interested in your thoughts around how various religions embrace compassion.  

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Permalink Reply by Mystic Tourist on June 8, 2012 at 10:09pm

I am not a religious person, I am a secular mystic, but I can share with you some thoughts on compassion. In my practice of mysticism nothing is of greater importance than compassion. It resides in the fourth chakra and is as a bridge between the higher and lower chakra's. The spirit of compassion is love. Compassion can not be exhausted, it only knows one measure, enough. Its measure is singular, It can not be held for one and not another. These qualities render it absolute of of an absolute quality. With ignorance we can imagine our being without it but that is not true, only real. Absolutes are of God and when we make our self comfortable with any absolute it draws us closer to God.

Permalink Reply by Bronwyn Davies on June 8, 2012 at 11:56pm

so if we could bridge between all our understandings of compasssion then we could see that this is the highest goal and something we all aspire to. I

Permalink Reply by Mystic Tourist on June 9, 2012 at 8:49am

I think that goals are illusory. While we struggle in our imaginary conflict they offer the pretense of control and we impress our self with a sense of progress. The struggle is real, even if only imagined, and goals are of good service while we are in the tangle of our imaginary conflict. I am glad that you brought up understanding, it also is absolute or of an absolute quality. Except for understanding nothing could organize itself well enough to exist and so everything is understood. We only imagine things to be in need of understanding and in doing so we create our reality in support. The goal is to be without aspiration. Without a goal, to be there now. The absolute qualities of compassion and understanding dissolve our imagined reality revealing something truer. Should a person quite imagination, with absolutes, truth is revealed. If a person in this state is known in our community it has a profound affect and the goal is realized, no longer needed.

Permalink Reply by Shari on June 18, 2012 at 8:01pm

Hi Bronwyn - much luck with your project.  Sounds great!  You might like to check out HH Dalai Lama's book 'Towards the True Kinship of Faiths'.  It is a  wonderfully insightful book and in it he looks at the commonalities among all of the world's main faith traditions, with a particular focus - as you would expect - on compassion centered teachings.  I have a brief review of the book on my blog, if you would like to check it out first.  Find it in 'Great Reads' in the Pages section at http://onelightmanylamps.blogspot.com

 

kind regards, Shari

Permalink Reply by Bronwyn Davies on June 19, 2012 at 5:17am

Thanks Shari, I bought the book when I was in Dharamsala last year.   I have been reading it a lot. What I hope to glean is some central messages that cross all religions.  As you say HH Dalai Lama's book 'Towards the True Kinship of Faiths does focus on compasson.....and thats a great place to start.  Thanks I will check out your blog!

Shari said:

Hi Bronwyn - much luck with your project.  Sounds great!  You might like to check out HH Dalai Lama's book 'Towards the True Kinship of Faiths'.  It is a  wonderfully insightful book and in it he looks at the commonalities among all of the world's main faith traditions, with a particular focus - as you would expect - on compassion centered teachings.  I have a brief review of the book on my blog, if you would like to check it out first.  Find it in 'Great Reads' in the Pages section at http://onelightmanylamps.blogspot.com

 

kind regards, Shari

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