38. Avoid over
Indulgence in compassion:
“Compassion” by
dictionary meaning is ‘pity’. As a general guide line compassion is suppose to
be good for your emotional health. However, if you notice, for those who are
very sensitive, get over indulged in compassion and feel low themselves.
There is a difference between helping others out of pure
compassion and feeling bad for his conditions. The more your are sensitive to
certain issue, the more you feel down after you face such situation. This is I
termed, as overindulgence in compassion.
A lady when feel compassion after seeing a crippled beggar
and gives him some money is pure compassion. She is not emotionally attached to
the sadness of the beggar. However, if the same lady when feels/sees her
crippled son in place of beggar, feels sorrow, which is not pure compassion. It
is her sensitivity towards her son that makes her feel extreme sorrow before
compassion. You must watch your emotions so that, it should not develop sorrow
in place of true compassion. The difference in both are very fine.
Understanding others emotion is true compassion, where as feeling our self others
emotion is over indulgence in compassion. Draw a fine line between these two
and never cross over.
Time and again, it is noticed that, those who have suffered
a set back or those who have become sensitive to certain issue, ultimately work
for such issues life long. The beauty of this compassion is that it blossoms,
when you work for some one you do not know.
Watch you steps, if you notice sadness taking over
compassion stop then & there. Drop compassion altogether till you desensitize
yourself towards the issue.
Avoid over indigence in compassion….at least for now.
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