Bonus - Week 5 Heart Wisdom
Enlightened 13th century Persian mystic poet Jallaluddin Rumi had written many
beautiful words on Reconnecting through the heart center of true love. Some of
his poems of love were in reference of the true divine love that is the unconditonal
love wihin and the source of oneself.
Only Breath
Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu
Buddhist, sufi, or zen. Not any religion
This is love: to fly toward a secret sky,
to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment.
First, to let go of live.
or cultural system. I am not from the East
In the end, to take a step without feet;
or the West, not out of the ocean or up
to regard this world as invisible,
from the ground, not natural or ethereal, not
composed of elements at all. I do not exist, am not an entity in this world or in the next,
did not descend from Adam and Eve or any
origin story. My place is placeless, a trace
of the traceless. Neither body or soul.
and to disregard what appears to be the self.
Heart, I said, what a gift it has been
to enter this circle of lovers,
to see beyond seeing itself,
to reach and feel within the breast.
-Source: http://www.khamush.com/love_poems.html#This is love
I belong to the beloved, have seen the two
worlds as one and that one call to and know,
first, last, outer, inner,
Wisdom tells me I am nothing.
only that breath breathing human being.
Love tells me I am everything.
- From Essential Rumi. by Coleman Barks
Source: http://peacefulrivers.homestead.com/Rumipoetry1.html
Love is the direct emanation from the Heart,
that draws all into a unity.
Wisdom is the active expression of love in the
field of service.
- Bodo Balsys
Between the two my life flows.
-Nissardagatta Maharaj
To know and love another human being
is the root of all wisdom.
-Evelyn Waugh
What is Compassion?
Compassion is different to sympathy, empathy
and altruism.
Compassion may involve empathy and
Sympathy involves feeling sorry for another,
but as a separate and detached self to the
other or event.
sympathy. Compassion involves feeling
Empathy feels fully for another or event as if its
happening to themselves.
Altruism is the action that benefits other from
no expectations in return.
In my simple and plain words, I describe
compassion as: Unlike empathy, which is literally
getting into the hole with another’s pain and
suffering, compassion feels totally another’s
pain and suffering, but doesn’t get into the hole,
hence able to extend a hand to help pull the
other out of the hole. Or respect the true nature
of pain and suffering.
altruism as well, but it differs slightly
from empathy and most certainly from
total empathy for other but from the
higher space of understanding, respect
and reverence for the bigger picture.
Then through this higher understanding
compassion applies altruism with effect
and power. Compassion comes from
wisdom and the true and higher reality.
Compassion is natural when
you are fully revealed into your
true state of unconditional and
oneness. For when oneness is
your reality, you can’t help but
be compassionate. Compassion,
like unconditional love, stems
from compassion for self.
Compassion: Deep awareness of the suffering of self or another
without the need to relieve it, feeling the total appreciation for its
value; a total state of non-judgement.
- Anonymous
Compassion brings us to a stop and
for a moment we rise above ourselves.
- Mason Cooley
Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic
between good and evil proceeding within us.
- Eric Hoffer
COMPASSION: When you truly realize within yourself that all underlying
negative attitudes and reactions are only a Call for Love – a call to
be loved and to be understood, you will start to see everything and
everyone with the eyes of compassion. Compassion arises when you
start to fully see for yourself that there is no difference between you
and others in experiences except for the intensity of the stories and
dramas behind them. You can only awaken to your own truth and
compassion when you are willing to see the universal reality behind
each of those experiences.
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries.
Without them humanity cannot survive.
- His Holiness the Dalai Lama