Written by Mathew Naismith
I've been nagged in the last 18 hrs with, "You need to
write about pain and how the reality we exist in defines the physical and mental
pain we will experience". In other words pain is defined by the reality we
are experiencing, in certain realities pain just can't exist, this is due to
compassion by the collective within a reality. Pain within these realities is
dealt with before pain even gets to a painful stage, this is quite the opposite
within this reality, actually, many people live off of people in pain and
sickness in this reality, this isn't so in other realities.
Pain isn't a part of or even a necessary part of all
realities, actually, very few realities are painful in any sense, this reality
is an exception.
Synchronicity: I
had a good internet friend of mine post the following on a Google community.
Compassion
We
all have compassion within us.
If a tear comes to your eyes or you feel the pain when you suffer, or see others suffering, human or animal that is compassion you are feeling.
If a tear comes to your eyes or you feel the pain when you suffer, or see others suffering, human or animal that is compassion you are feeling.
Do
not be afraid to show your compassion.
Do
not be afraid to feel and to acknowledge your feelings.
This world and the humanity needs our compassion much more than ever before.
Let your tears flow and accept what you are feeling.
This world and the humanity needs our compassion much more than ever before.
Let your tears flow and accept what you are feeling.
Your
heart begins to open much more with feelings of compassion and your capacity to
care for another increases even more.
You
also feel a connection towards everything and everyone as your heart blossoms
like the Lotus that rises from the depths of the muddy pool.
My first reply was as follow.
Awareness
and compassion go hand in hand, one can't exist without the other.
This was agreed upon by other commentator's, I then followed
up with a more comprehensive reply as below.
It's
funny to think a lot of people who are not compassionate are only this way
because of an unawareness, for example, would multinationals use and abuse
other energy forms if they were truly aware? Would a child molester abuse
children?
The funny thing about child molesters is, a lot of them were also molested as children. They are aware of what they are doing but only to a certain extent, pain usually hinders us becoming aware beyond the pain experienced making us unaware.
Multinationals unawareness comes from opulence, they desire and it's this desire that makes them unaware. Two quite different scenarios creating the same dilemma, unawareness therefore unfeeling. I could be incorrect with this but I got a feeling not.
The funny thing about child molesters is, a lot of them were also molested as children. They are aware of what they are doing but only to a certain extent, pain usually hinders us becoming aware beyond the pain experienced making us unaware.
Multinationals unawareness comes from opulence, they desire and it's this desire that makes them unaware. Two quite different scenarios creating the same dilemma, unawareness therefore unfeeling. I could be incorrect with this but I got a feeling not.
To my surprise I received the following reply.
I
am a survivor of child molestation. And I definitely
would never harm any child. We are also, as survivors much more likely to be
raped repeatedly again, to become homeless, to struggle with substance abuse or
dependence issues, to have PTSD, and many other long-lasting issues directly
connected to our molestation as a child. Bad example. Your words hit me
personally, raw and vulnerable. My situations and circumstances have made me so
much more loving, compassionate and giving to children, and especially to
children who are living in poverty, or starved for attention themselves.
Awareness is key. Check your statistics. And don't make general assumptions.
Yet again, Awareness is key. Thank you
I
replied with the following.
Assumptions,
you are assuming yourself I wasn't abused, I also worked with paedophiles as
well in the welfare arena. I didn't say all the people who were abused in this
way turned out to be abusers themselves but I do know a great number of them do.
So many become un-compassionate because of the pain, I know this to be fact KL.
I worked in the welfare arena twice over in my fifty two years, I'm not assuming anything, I know by actual experiences and working in the welfare arena.
Pain can and does make people unaware, it made you quite unaware of me did it not, you assumed because you were unaware? See my point about pain and how it can make people unaware, it blinds people to the truth KL? Abusing yourself is still abuse KL!!
You and I were the lucky one's, I helped many out in the disability field in particular by using my own life experiences. Some people use the pain to assist others through compassion, many others use the pain to cause more pain, this is a fact of life KL, have you abused yourself? It's still abuse KL.......
I worked in the welfare arena twice over in my fifty two years, I'm not assuming anything, I know by actual experiences and working in the welfare arena.
Pain can and does make people unaware, it made you quite unaware of me did it not, you assumed because you were unaware? See my point about pain and how it can make people unaware, it blinds people to the truth KL? Abusing yourself is still abuse KL!!
You and I were the lucky one's, I helped many out in the disability field in particular by using my own life experiences. Some people use the pain to assist others through compassion, many others use the pain to cause more pain, this is a fact of life KL, have you abused yourself? It's still abuse KL.......
I
should also state I stated the following.
"The funny thing about child molesters is, a lot of them were also molested as children".
This is saying a lot of child molesters have been abused themselves, this isn't stating that all child molesters become molesters themselves or become un-compassionate.
Pain most often leads to an unawareness or ignorance, what kind of reality are we existing in?
This is funny, I was going to write a post about pain and how the reality we live in creates pain when it doesn't have too. It's the reality we accept that automatically creates the pain and ignorance. In certain other kinds of realities this doesn't exist, this is due to everyone being compassionate, this of course takes the collective to be aware. It all makes sense but it takes the collective to over come the pain through compassion especially of oneself to become aware.
You need to be aware to become compassionate but you also need compassion to become aware in certain circumstances!!
"The funny thing about child molesters is, a lot of them were also molested as children".
This is saying a lot of child molesters have been abused themselves, this isn't stating that all child molesters become molesters themselves or become un-compassionate.
Pain most often leads to an unawareness or ignorance, what kind of reality are we existing in?
This is funny, I was going to write a post about pain and how the reality we live in creates pain when it doesn't have too. It's the reality we accept that automatically creates the pain and ignorance. In certain other kinds of realities this doesn't exist, this is due to everyone being compassionate, this of course takes the collective to be aware. It all makes sense but it takes the collective to over come the pain through compassion especially of oneself to become aware.
You need to be aware to become compassionate but you also need compassion to become aware in certain circumstances!!
I think this person had to misconstrue what I actually
stated within my second reply to get me to write about the connection between pain
and realities, I wasn't going to write this post, this was until I received
their reply. It's funny how we a prompted at times.
Pain can indeed influence us to make misconceptions and
misjudgements of others and life circumstances,
this of course adds more pain to the reality we are experiencing,
however, is it the reality that causes the pain or is it the pain that
creates realities of pain to begin with?
Painless realities:
We exist in a universe that is extreme within it's motions, the universe itself
is expanding out at a phenomenal (extraordinary) rate, it's also very highly
active within it's star systems, there is very little that exists in the
universe that is motionless. When we look at realities that are more
compassionate, there is one huge difference, they exist in a reality that is
less about motion. This doesn't mean they are not within a universe like this
one, what this means is they are aware that these universes can influence us to
become overly expressive of motions, in other words become extreme within our
motions, pain is just one of these extreme motional expressions.
This pain is going to influence us in how aware we become,
it will also hinder us to become wise, meaning, motionless within our
expressions. You might think how can we be compassionate without expressing
ourselves? In these realities of less
motion, therefore expressions, you don't have to express this compassion
because it just there all the times. This is like pain for us within this
reality, it's just there all the times,
within these realities of less motion, compassion is just there all the
times without having to express it. In other words it's 24/7 compassion instead
of 24/7 pain like within this reality.
What I am saying is pain is a part of this reality, it's one
of the main influences of this reality, however, if we put ourselves in a
different reality of less motion, we would no longer exist in a reality
influenced by pain.
I will give you a good example of this. I've been in chronic
pain since I was six years old, as I get older, my condition is worsening but I
still don't take pain killers even though the pain at times becomes acute
(chronic). The pain still influences me but I don't allow it to dictate to me
to any great extent, it's amazing what I can and have accomplished with a
chronic injury. When I'm within a motionless reality, like being in my own
space, I can accomplish amazing physical feats, this is all due to being in a
reality not predominantly influenced by pain. Once I come out of this reality
back into this reality of motions, pain
starts to influence me more, this isn't because I'm in pain, it's because I am
no longer in a relatively motionless free reality.
To me without a doubt, pain of any kind will keep us
ignorant and un-compassionate, it will also influence us to make misjudgements
towards others and the circumstances we come across. Pain will also hinder us
to become wise, this is because pain is all about emotional expressions of motions
where's wisdom is quite the opposite. Under a reality influenced by wisdom,
compassion exist without any motion what so ever, there is no motion because
you have nothing to react to or against.
I should also say, desire is another motion that can't exist
within a reality influenced by wisdom, this is due to desire and pain being
extreme within their motions.
The healing process is simple, become less expressive of
motions.
Supplement: This
is going to sound strange to a lot of people, I don't mind being in pain in a
reality of motion because I accept that is what this reality is about, it's
about motion that can be influential towards expressions of pain and desire.
The thing is, this reality isn't of pain itself, it's only about motions and it
can be about extreme motions. We have used motions within this reality to
create pain and desire, what would happen if we learnt to use motions in a more
constructive way? This of course takes wisdom and learning to become less of
these motions especially extreme motions.
Something to also ponder about. You might think spiritualist
in India are about control, and yes control is a motion, but their not, they
about finding their truer selves, in other words being of their immortal
(motionless) self rather than just being of their mortal (motional) self. They are also about letting go of motions
(control) not gaining more control!!
Pain
period needs to be faced face on, it doesn't need for us to stick our heads in
the sand and ignore slavery and child abuse for example, this kind of action
only endorses this kind of pain. Pain needs to be talked about otherwise it's just
going to keep manifesting like it has.
Why is love healing? Simple, it's an expression that needs very little motion, pain and desire on the other hand need a lot of motion, and of course the more motion we give them, the more destructive they become.
Facing the pain with love, as Tanuja and Michael do, works because it lessons the motions of pain. Compassion also works because this too lessons the motions of pain.
I'm sorry Tanuja for disrupting your important post by facing pain face on, I have a lot of compassion in facing the pain in the world. The worse thing we can do is stick our heads in the sand and not talk about this pain.
Pain to me is just a motion, it doesn't really have a label, this is because as soon as we give it a label, we give it more motion. Pain is just another motion that often needs compassion and love to neutralise.
Why is love healing? Simple, it's an expression that needs very little motion, pain and desire on the other hand need a lot of motion, and of course the more motion we give them, the more destructive they become.
Facing the pain with love, as Tanuja and Michael do, works because it lessons the motions of pain. Compassion also works because this too lessons the motions of pain.
I'm sorry Tanuja for disrupting your important post by facing pain face on, I have a lot of compassion in facing the pain in the world. The worse thing we can do is stick our heads in the sand and not talk about this pain.
Pain to me is just a motion, it doesn't really have a label, this is because as soon as we give it a label, we give it more motion. Pain is just another motion that often needs compassion and love to neutralise.
The funny thing about using love and compassion to
neutralise motion, is the more of motion love an compassion become, the more
they are of lust and desire. It's wise to know this because the more love and
compassion are expressed through motion, the less they will neutralise motions.
This makes sense because you can't neutralise motions with more motions, to
actually neutralise motions needs less motions not more motions. It's actually wise
to express love and compassion with as little motion as possible.
Now this doesn't mean you shouldn't physically help others
because it's only going to add to the motions, all this means is to try not to
act in counteraction, in other words help others by just showing simple
compassion without trying to counteract other motions like starvation or
homelessness for example. Don't react to a situation in counteraction to
another motion, just show simple love and compassion, Yes, simple love and
compassion are expressions but their subtle expressions because their not
trying to counteract another motion with more motions. Any healing/neutralising
of painful motions takes less motions, not more motions!!
The following link is in reference to Tanuja's post on this Google community about compassion.
