A Powerful Spiritual Practice:
"Since you are still here as a physical body, you share the vulnerability and mortality of your physical form with every other human and with every living being.
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"Since you are still here as a physical body, you share the vulnerability and mortality of your physical form with every other human and with every living being.
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Next time you say "I have nothing in common with this person," remember that you have a great deal in common: A few years from now - two years or seventy, it doesn't truly matter - both of you will have become corpses, then piles of dust, then nothing at all.
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This is a sobering and humbling realization that leaves little room for pride. Is this a negative thought? No, it is a fact. Why close your eyes to it? In that sense, there is total equality between you and every other creature.
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One of the most powerful spiritual practices is to meditate deeply on the mortality of physical forms, including your own. This is called: Die before you die. Go into it deeply.
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Your physical form is dissolving, is no more. Then a moment comes when all mind-forms or thoughts also die. Yet you are still there - the divine presence that you are. Radiant, fully awake. Nothing that was real ever died, only names, forms, and illusions.
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The Deathless Dimension, Your True Nature
Realization of this deathless dimension, your true nature, is the other side of compassion. On a deep feeling-level, you now recognize not only your own immortality but through it that of every other creature as well.
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Realization of this deathless dimension, your true nature, is the other side of compassion. On a deep feeling-level, you now recognize not only your own immortality but through it that of every other creature as well.
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On the form level, you share mortality & precariousness of existence. On a Being Level, you share eternal life. These are two aspects of compassion. In compassion, seemingly opposite feelings of sadness & joy merge into one & are transmuted into a deep inner peace.
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This is the peace of God. It is one of the noblest feelings that humans are capable of, and it has great healing and transformative power. But true compassion, as I have just described it, is as yet rare.
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To have deep empathy for the suffering of another being certainly requires a high degree of consciousness but represents only one side of compassion. It is not complete.
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True compassion goes beyond empathy or sympathy. It does not happen until sadness merges with joy, the joy of Being beyond form, the joy of eternal life.
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