Feeling Compassion

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Feeling the emotion of Compassion,
is really just a luxury.
Is it nice?
Ya, sure, ya bet’cha!

But is it necessary?
No, not so much.

But wait, IF we perform Buddha’s mental yogas of Compassion
with OUT actually feeling the emotion of compassion,
THEN doesn’t that make us just,
big, fat hypocrites?

No it does not.
We are only hypocrites when we tell someone
that we feel something
when we know we really don’t.

Does that mean,
that we should be completely oblivious
of our emotions at all times?
NOPE, not at all.

Remember, we’re traversing Buddha’s path of
devotion, AWARENESS, love and letting-go;
so awareness of our emotions,
even when they’re less then glamorous,
is crucial to our spiritual evolution.

Let’s talk about moms.

Sometimes a mom is delighted with her child,
and other times she isn’t.
Sometimes a mom earnestly desires to prepare a meal for her child,
other times she does not.

The difference between a good mother and a bad one,
is NOT if they feel enthusiastic to feed their spawn,
but if they actually DO
feed the little nippers.

Likewise, sometimes we will feel like our heart
is fit to burst with compassion,
other times we won’t.

The goal of Buddha’s path is NOT to habituate
one set of emotions and demonize another.

If we do that
rather than grow in merit and wisdom...
well I won’t say well become more neurotic,
I’ll just hint and say
it’ll make us as nutty as a sh*t-house rat!


So when we find ourselves in an ideal circumstance
to practice Buddha’s yoga’s of Compassion,
but we don’t feel like it,
what should we do?


#1 use Buddha’s compassion yogas to take away
all of everyone’s sufferings,
such as those generated by Pakistan’s floods;

#2 use Buddha’s love yogas
to send your partner and everyone else
all that they require,
such as greater love and devotion;

#3 and finally we could drag the guilt,
of not feeling the emotions that we think you should,
into Buddha’s path of awareness and letting-go.

The Thursday series of weekly webinars begins in 3 weeks!

May you and yours be

happy and healthy!

Om Mani Padme Hum,

Lama Jigme Gyatso: Rime Manipa Tantrika

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