Acts Of Compassion

This morning, in my process of considering the nature of things, compassion comes to mind. 

   It could be said compassion, like any experience, has degrees and frequencies.  Certainly we have all experience the nudge to global compassion when we hear of catastrophe; praying for comforts and solace to the bereaved and inflicted. 

   Then there is the compassion of involvement, to tend and be an agent of resolution. Just as those souls who step up to be missionaries for a cause, or to care for the forgotten and downtrodden. 

   More acutely to my current discussion is the nonobjective compassion: love fulfilled by wisdom and insight as result of others suffering; the conduit of divine power in loving that does not assume responsibility.

    Here is where we are able to see an individual as magnificent, not the culmination of subjective afflicting situations. This wisdom speaks of all things being in transition; so then suffering is for the lesson of the heart; for the individual, along with opportunity for outpouring of love by a benefactor in an inclusive and participative union.  Love brings gifts to all. 

        In nonobjective compassion it is the desire to comfort another's suffering without taking on the burden; or more erroneously, be ensnared into belief of measure of deserving; that is theirs to overcome.  Yet still, in witness of a particular situation, one can elect to be encouraging in word and deed to facilitate that accomplishment.

  With compassionate insight, the soul looks to the equality of another enabling a love without conditional constraints.  Then that may develop into a natural camaraderie of commitment to achieve ones potential. 

   All too often we become distracted by the accumulated comforts we’ve gathered along our journey of experience.  Deceptively, under guise of not wishing to experience pain, we inadvertently choose comfort over wisdom; enforced ignorance over enlightenment. 

   Being distracted with keeping control of our situations, we trap ourselves into what the past tells us we know, screening out in the process, new facts that are of benefit for growth during the walk of experience.  Of all the creatures on this planet, only we human beings experience on two realms: the actual, as well as the imagined.  Our physical sensory facets know contentment, along with fear and pain; this is evident to all animal life.  Man alone can claim experience of emotion concerning contrived possibilities in addition to actual experiential responses to events.  Yet, to have mental predictions validated, as in 'knowing' being contrived as if by evidence, we use our corporal existence to behold our preemptive thoughts as events unfold. As we apply that process to everything that is part of our walk; it can then be revealed that is what we are all about; Trying to control. 

  It can be mistaken that ours is life as individuals on independent journeys for comforts and contentment while avoiding pain, or increasing pleasures.  Rather as we learn, 'know' through example, we have opportunity to be love in its glory.  It is, in effect, to say that we experience divine in a tangible way; when we 'act' in the nature of love.  Practicing as we do being divine by behaving compassionately.