Page 18 - Pearls of Perception (eBook)

The Law of Compassion

The law of compassion is so that what resides in the little things gets
reflected into the bigger things as well, and not the other way
around. Someone can speak great words, promise grand acts, all
while their day-by-day life lacks the mark of genuine compassion.
What is the point in declaring one's intentions to offer great gifts and
treasures if one's life doesn't carry the fragrance of small, yet well-
placed compassion?

You don’t need a book for this, there is no written method. All that
you have at your disposal is a beating heart that for now sits caged in
metal. No matter how much you dress it up, pretending to know
what compassion is all about, no matter how many donations you
make to crippled beings or meaningful causes, there is a wound in
you which every day outgrows its bandage. To it you need to tend, its
marks you need to mend.

Stop fooling yourself, stop treating compassion like a “trend”. Com-
passion has nothing to do with giving, sharing or even caring. Com-
passion is, if anything, the ability to suffer as one, to take one’s tears
and cry them with your eye. It’s the ability to be there when it’s
needed, to sit where there is grieving, to face it all with openness, to
hold the light right at the peak of darkness.

The way you interact with others (the real way, beyond the wild,
unpredictable waves of agreement and disagreement) tells a lot