tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259386991508935093.post3135441313789300482..comments2024-03-24T12:14:08.296-04:00Comments on THE DAILY BEAT: Compassion Doesn't DiscriminateRick Dale, author of The Beat Handbookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17721559977431022390noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259386991508935093.post-66924527851178398212009-05-13T10:47:00.000-04:002009-05-13T10:47:00.000-04:00Thinking of someone as our favorite child - a grea...Thinking of someone as our favorite child - a great way to reframe our thinking about others' behaviors!Rick Dale, author of The Beat Handbookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17721559977431022390noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259386991508935093.post-90037484239010944422009-05-12T12:21:00.000-04:002009-05-12T12:21:00.000-04:00I love this essay! Very thought provoking. It re...I love this essay! Very thought provoking. It reminds me of a discussion on the Krishnamurti Network site recently. In a forum discussing "If you are not at all concerned with the world but only with your personal salvation, following certain beliefs and superstitions, following gurus, then I am afraid it will be impossible for you and the speaker to communicate with each other. We are not concerned at all with private personal salvation but we are concerned, earnestly, seriously, with what the human mind has become, what humanity is facing. We are concerned at looking at this world and what a human being living in this world has to do, what is his role?" J. Krishnamurti<br /><br />A forum participant wrote. "If someone does something to us, then we want revenge." <br /><br />My response was "I think “what a human being living in this world has to do, what is his role” is to love. To love every other human being as if he were our favorite child. Then when “someone is doing something to us” revenge will not be our first thought. I think we would then ask ourselves, what caused him to do that thing? Think to ourselves, this is my child whom I love. Then we will not want revenge against this person, but rather we will want healing for this person.<br /><br />Does it take a saint to do that? I don’t think so. I think it takes conditioning, just as it’s taken conditioning to want revenge."<br /><br />I don't go to church and I don't pray. However, I do care about people. I care about Johanna and her family and the pain they're suffering, and I care about Stephen and his family and the pain they're suffering. My thoughts of healing and love go out to all of them. <br /><br />Could I feel that way if Johanna were my own child? I hope so, while at the same time I hope I'm never in a position to find out for sure.Crystalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13823638034018430190noreply@blogger.com