Compassion
Compassion is a virtue — one in which the emotional capacities of empathy and sympathy (for thesuffering of others) are regarded as a part of love itself, and a cornerstone of greater social interconnection and humanism — foundational to the highest principles in philosophy, society, and personhood.
Throughout the ages of planetary evolution many different humanist philosophies have developed, as well as many organized religious traditions. Most all of them have emphasized the positive traits of human “compassion” as a virtue to strive for in daily life. When we think about the meaning of the word “compassion” in our society we generally think of a human characteristic that has a moral or ethical judgment cast upon our perception of it. This “judgment” is stemming from our mental body which then seeks to define what we as human beings believe is “good or bad”. Anytime we use the ego filter to shape our fixed belief system and its inner dialogue, we get “judgment”. Our judgment then assigns a “value” to our perception of events.
Compassion directed from the judgmental mind becomes extremely distorted to fit into what we believe the circumstance is that actually deserves our compassionate point of view. From these ego mental distortions, many which are reinforced by religious dogma, our idea of what defines compassion can become muddled within extremely dense emotions such as guilt, shame or resentment. We may give to charity to make ourselves feel better, so that the inner personal conflict will go away in the belief that we are being compassionate. We may feel obligated that in order to be a good person, a “spiritual person” - we should be “compassionate” in order to have empathy to feel others suffering.[1]
Law of Compassion
The Law of Compassion is the first basic truth of One Self-God Self. As One Self-God Self, to be “Compassion in Action” towards others is then to be in harmony and right relationship to Self. This is a Law of One practice.
This is the truth of right relationship, of loving understanding, of actively expressed Love. It is the foundation of brotherhood and the expression of the inner unity.