Weapon of Mass Compassion

Watch out anger, jealousy and hate, here comes an emotion that can extinguish all three of you in one hit.  Compassion is taking the world by storm one unhappy person at a time.


Photo by Kat Hannon

 After all, anyone acting out in a harmful way is simply unhappy.  We never know what they might be going through and often it has nothing to do with us.  If we retaliate we not only make things worse for them, but for ourselves.

Given a choice, what sort of world do we want to live in?  One of anger and unhappiness?...  Or one of love and kindness?  We have the power to make that choice and we make it every time we’re faced with anger, hate or jealousy.  Do we continue to spread these emotions or do we take out our weapon of mass compassion and blow them away?  

Lets look at bullying.  It’s not just limited to the school playground.  It’s at work, at home, it’s everywhere.  The crazy thing is that bullying can come from a place of love, a place of good intention.   There’s the sort of bullying that comes from jealousy (in friendships or between lovers).  It’s the fear of losing that love that creates the need to protect it and fight against others.  But if we really loved someone, wouldn’t we want them to have other friends and feel loved by other people?     

Then there’s the situation when someone we love is being bullied or hurt by someone else.   Our initial reaction is to stop the hurt, but often the actions that are taken to stand up to the bully means we end up bullying the bully in the process.  What’s worse is when friends or family unite to “stand up” to the bully too and then what do we have?  We started with only one bully and now we have a whole clan of them!  Is that what we want?  More of what we’re fighting against? 

When someone is treating us badly it's often because they, themselves have been treated badly by someone else.  If we fight back with more of that negative behaviour... when does it end?

It ends with compassion.  When we fight with compassion we break the chain of harmful behaviour.  When we stop spreading the disease of unhappiness, we start spreading a new chain of emotion… LOVE.

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