Comments - penny on - BE someone - Gaia Community2024-03-29T08:10:51Zhttp://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=5313775%3ABlogPost%3A184&xn_auth=noActing to Ease Others’ Suf…tag:letschangetheworld.ning.com,2013-05-11:5313775:Comment:142732013-05-11T07:10:20.919ZMichael Grovehttp://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profile/MichaelGrove
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<h3><strong><a href="http://zenhabits.net/compassion/" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Acting to Ease Others’ Suffering</span></a></strong></h3>
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<p>I can also act in ways that I believe are compassionate to the people right in front of me, and you might think, “Isn’t that compassion for others?” But really, it’s compassion for myself in another form. <br></br><br></br><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>It’s another self-compassion…</strong></span></p>
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<h3><strong><a href="http://zenhabits.net/compassion/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Acting to Ease Others’ Suffering</span></a></strong></h3>
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<p>I can also act in ways that I believe are compassionate to the people right in front of me, and you might think, “Isn’t that compassion for others?” But really, it’s compassion for myself in another form. <br/><br/><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>It’s another self-compassion method</strong>.</span></p>
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<p>Imagine the pain you feel when you see someone else suffering — the suffering you feel is real suffering, just as the other person is suffering. Yet, most people don’t actually ease that suffering in themselves.</p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>So, how do you ease that suffering in yourself when you see someone else suffering?</strong></span></p>
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<p>You reach out, empathise, make a connection, and look for a way to reduce the other person’s suffering, and your own. If the other person opens up, that’s great. If not, that’s OK, because you’ve reached out and let thesm know that you too suffer when you see them suffer.</p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>That’s a powerful thing</strong>.</span></p>
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<p><strong>And so you ease your own suffering, and it’s a selfish sort of compassion. </strong><strong>BUT that’s the only kind there is.<br/><br/><span>Severn</span><br/></strong></p>
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