08-22-2016, 03:56 PM
I have been thinking a little lately about the Green ray or the center of compassion, wondering what truly makes someone compassionate? I guess its an old philosophical question. I would have to say that compassion in my opinion much surely start out as a type of ethical conduct of non harming, that is to say not to harm ourselves, other selves or the environment. This to me makes fairly logical sense. The antithesis then to compassion following this line of thinking would be ignorance, causing harm directly or indirectly through a lack of awareness or understanding. However if we take this line of thinking a little further down the line we could say that what is harmful is surely nothing more than a personal opinion or a personal view. What i consider to be harmful might not be considered harmful by someone else in a different culture for example. At the end of the day would be it well said to say that compassion is an act of faith? That is to say that we all have a different sense of believe or faith in what is ethically or morally correct. This is quite an interesting connection, because Ra corresponds faith to the indigo ray and the green ray as the spring board towards intelligent infinity.
Compassion is the work of faith in the present moment?
Now this might be some what distorted through an overly logical filter, maybe the best way towards compassion isn't through the rational logical mind but the opening of the self towards the other in honesty embracing the experience of the unknown.
To keep things simply, i try my best to follow a Buddhist moral virtue called the 5 precepts
Non Killing,
Non stealing,
Non false speech
Non Sexual Misconduct
Non Intoxicants
I think the above is a good a moral frame work as any, its not overly in depth or clouded through philosophical thinking but has fair conduct that is willing undertaken to lessen the suffering of all beings.
Compassion is the work of faith in the present moment?
Now this might be some what distorted through an overly logical filter, maybe the best way towards compassion isn't through the rational logical mind but the opening of the self towards the other in honesty embracing the experience of the unknown.
To keep things simply, i try my best to follow a Buddhist moral virtue called the 5 precepts
Non Killing,
Non stealing,
Non false speech
Non Sexual Misconduct
Non Intoxicants
I think the above is a good a moral frame work as any, its not overly in depth or clouded through philosophical thinking but has fair conduct that is willing undertaken to lessen the suffering of all beings.