Karuna – Compassion arising from knowledge
“Karuna is not only clever mental or philosophical perception, it’s clever compassion arising from visceral embodied, non-conceptual/non-verbal presence and seeing”
Expensive Integral Meditators,
This weeks article explores ‘karuna’ or compassion arising from knowledge. It’s a topic we are going to discover on this Tuesday and Wednesday evenings meditation session, you’d be welcome, live-in-person, or on-line.
Reminder of subsequent Saturday’s Monthly Qi Gong & Taoist Breathwork Clinic & Mini-retreat , and excited to announce the brand new meditation program starting in April: The Way of the Mindful Warrior – Meditating with the Warriors creed . Particulars under, or simply click on on the hyperlink for the complete write up.
Within the spirit of karuna,
Toby
Karuna – Compassion arising from knowledge
Bizarre compassion
Bizarre compassion is one thing that all of us possess. It occurs once we observe the struggling of others with any diploma of empathy. It leads us to sympathize, to want them to be freed from their ache, and if doable, do one thing to assist. This sort of compassion is to a higher or lesser diploma current in people, and likewise to a extra restricted diploma animals.
This sort of compassion is the supply of many good issues, and likewise a supply of ache; with a lot struggling on the earth, and so few sources, when is the ache ever going to finish?! When my brother and sister-in-law had been doing NGO work in Afghanistan and Kazakhstan, they used to must have a obligatory as soon as each seven-week vacation, in order that they didn’t get psychologically overwhelmed by the dimensions of the struggling they noticed labored with.
This compassion also can trigger us to withdraw from the world, to really feel despair, to chop off from others as a way to cease feeling the ache of seeing ache!
Karuna
Karuna is outlined as ‘compassion arising from knowledge’. It’s a selected kind of spontaneous compassion that arises from the self-discipline of being current mindfully, which then results in a selected approach of seeing and perception into ourself and the world, as-they-are.
With karuna, our compassion arises spontaneously, intuitively, and with out sentimentality. If there’s something that may be finished within the second, then we do it. If nothing could be finished, the identical karuna arises, nevertheless it doesn’t give rise to inside battle or despair. We easy do what we will, with what now we have within the second, after which let go.
Karuna arises from one thing referred to as ‘working samadhi’, which is basically the power to maintain centered and current in your every day life in the identical approach that you’ll be able to in a proper sitting meditation. From this we will additionally see {that a} pre-requisite for karuna is the power to focus the thoughts in formal meditation; when you can’t do it in sitting meditation, you received’t be capable to do it in every day life. The knowledge that provides rise to karuna is not only clever mental or philosophical perception, it’s clever compassion arising from visceral embodied, non-conceptual/non-verbal presence and seeing.
I’ve talked about compassionate presence this in my treasured article (see hyperlink on the backside. All I’m going to do to complete this entry off is to depart a quote by John Daido Loori on karuna, which is as lovely and pithy an evidence of it as I’ve discovered. Hold meditating!
“Working samadhi…begins to manifest in exercise now. We’re ready to stick with what we’re doing and never disconnect from the second by chasing ideas, pre-occupied with one thing apart from the exercise at hand, wishing we weren’t there. This single-mindedness on any and all aspects of life is working samadhi….It’s our aliveness and presence, second to second. Every immediate is lucid and full.
Inside that working samadhi, karuna – actual compassion – begins to seem. Compassion is knowledge in motion. It isn’t merely doing good. Initially of our apply, many people expertise an amazing, bleeding-heart impetus to avoid wasting the world, blended with equally overwhelming despair that there are simply too many issues and too few sources. As apply matures, our awkward makes an attempt or pessimistic withdrawals are changed by real compassion arising from apply and realization. We see what we will do and we do it. We do it with out even reflecting, or realizing why we’re doing it. Compassion occurs. It occurs the best way we develop our hair. It’s that straightforward and that mysterious.”
Quote, John Daido Loori – Chapter 5, ‘Path of Enlightenment – Levels in a Non secular Journey
Associated article: Compassionate presence, awakened action
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Tues & Weds March twenty second & twenty third – Spring Equinox balancing & renewing meditation
The Spring Equinox within the northern hemisphere marks the mid-point between the cooler, darker seasons of the yr and the lighter, hotter ones. The forces of day and evening, gentle and darkish are of equal power. As such it represents time to emphasise stability and concord, each in our life and meditation apply.
It is usually good time to attune the life-force within the earth and artistic energies inside ourselves. We can be taking the time to get in contact with the brand new concepts, energies and creativity inside ourselves as they emerge like new crops and flowers in spring.
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Begins Tuesday 5th/Wednesday 6th April 2022 – The Way of the Mindful Warrior – Meditating with the Warriors creed
In a sentence: Set up the inside power, ability and braveness wanted to make you resilient within the face of life’s challenges, and thrive in each instances of adversity and instances of peace.
Overview: The Warriors Creed is a poem by an unknown Samurai within the 14th century. It outlines a code of conduct and a state of presence primarily based round a collection of inside qualities that may be cultivated by means of aware contemplation, then utilized to our every day life…read full details
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