01-25-2015, 12:00 AM
One of the worst teachings of don Juan I have ever read. Being a stalker who has led my dreaming/stalking into many worlds, including worlds of my own I can say that a world without compassion is a world of hell.. Truth. Compassion IS real, and is a facet of care and understanding. It is not self-importance, it is care and love. WHen someone is hurt, including yourself, you had better hope to God that people care enough to help you out of it, or that people care enough to help their fellow men and women. I say it is a facet of understanding because you understand what it is like to be hurt and so you care enough when someone else is hurt. So long as you have a heart that is. I am not talking about pity, no, compassion and pity are different things entirely. I can want to help someone who is hurt because I love them. ANd I can want to help myself because I love myself, and do not need to feel pity to have genuine compassion. Even someone who has accepted their lot, be it pain or whatever I can want to help them because I do not want them to experience pain and suffering.. Do I pity them? Sometimes yes I do, they can be weak and pathetic but i still care. I care enough to help them help themselves. I am ruthless, but I have a heart. I can dismiss my heart too and not give a rats ass for people, and I have done that too. But in all honesty you must follow path with heart, and you can follow any path, and make any position of awareness reality, including the one where compassion is fake. But before you do that beware for you can also have a position where love and compassion are real, and not just a sham or slef-importance. Sure if we all had no doubt and could do anything we wanted we would have no pity for our fellow man and no suffering but alas we do, and people do suffer and do you care about them? I genuinely do. Not because i am self-important but because I too know what it is like to suffer, and know what it is like to have someone care for me.. Have you had a baby who fell and hurt themselves, or a mother who loses her child, that is real loss and real pain, and it makes my heart ache for them.. That is love and undertsanding, empathy and conscience. Good things unless you want a world full of psychopaths, and i do not recommend it. No one will give a rats ass about you there. I have seen it.