Report 75 - Loving Kindness and Compassion
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No headersThe Four Immeasurables are sometimes called The Four Abodes.
An abode is an inward home that is always open and
available.An abode is a central hub
to which I can return, again and again, from the infinitely diverse spokes and
outer rims of my life.
Thus, loving-kindness and compassion comprise “a home base”
that is always available.Arriving at
the hub, entering it, I experience a sort of singularity where all my prior
fragmentations fall away.
From a space of loving-kindness and compassion within
myself, I can “help” without pushing anyone into weakness, can “fix” without
pushing anyone into brokenness, and can “serve” without pushing anyone else
into dependency or addiction.
If the abode-hub seems small, or I’m re-learning and re-learning and re-learning that it is home-base, then it may be helpful for me to experience the radiance of loving-kindness and compassion in silence and solitude, letting the “anyone” who is “helped, fixed, and served” be myself.
The abode is “enough.”Nothing lacking; nothing in excess – therefore no need for me to generate pleasant feelings, harbor ideas of gain, indulge habits of mind and body, or to “prove” or “demonstrate” anything: not even to myself.- Tag page (Edit tags)
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