The fundamental characteristic of true compassion is pure and fearless openness without territorial limitations. There is no need to be loving and kind to one\u2019s neighbors, no need to speak pleasantly to people and put on a pretty smile. This little game does not apply. In fact it is embarrassing. Real openness exists on a much larger scale, a revolutionarily large and open scale, a universal scale. Compassion means for you to be as adult as you are, while still maintaining a childlike quality. In the Buddhist teachings the symbol for compassion, as I have already said, is one moon shining in the sky while its image is reflected in one hundred bowls of water. The moon does not demand, \u201cIf you open to me, I will do you a favor and shine on you.\u201d The moon just shines. The point is not to want to benefit anyone or make them happy. There is no audience involved, no \u201cme\u201d and \u201cthem.\u201d It is a matter of an open gift, complete generosity without the relative notions of giving and receiving. That is the basic openness of compassion: opening without demand. Simply be what you are. Be the master of the situation. If you will just \u201cbe,\u201d then life flows around and through you. This will lead you into working and communicating with someone, which of course demands tremendous warmth and openness. Ch\u00f6gyam Trungpa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The fundamental characteristic of true compassion is pure and fearless openness without territorial limitations. There is no need to be loving and kind to one\u2019s neighbors, no need to speak pleasantly to people and put on a pretty smile. This little game does not apply. In fact it is embarrassing. Real openness exists on a much larger scale, a revolutionarily large and open scale, a universal scale. Compassion means for you to be as adult as you are, while still maintaining a childlike quality. In the Buddhist teachings the symbol for compassion, as I have already said, is one moon shining in the sky while its image is reflected in one hundred bowls of water. The moon does not demand, \u201cIf you open to me, I will do you a favor and shine on you.\u201d The moon just shines. The point is not to want to benefit anyone or make them happy. There is no audience involved, no \u201cme\u201d and \u201cthem.\u201d It is a matter of an open gift, complete generosity without the relative notions of giving and receiving. That is the basic openness of compassion: opening without demand. Simply be what you are. Be the master of the situation. If you will just \u201cbe,\u201d then life flows around and through you. This will lead you into working and communicating with someone, which of course demands tremendous warmth and openness. Ch\u00f6gyam Trungpa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meditation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zijiart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zijiart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zijiart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zijiart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zijiart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1965"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/zijiart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1967,"href":"https:\/\/zijiart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965\/revisions\/1967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zijiart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zijiart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zijiart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}