Category Archives: …and other stuff

miscellaneous postings by Lawrence R. Spencer

...and other stuff, FREE ADVICE, READING MATTER, UNIVERSES

EMPATHY

Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Empathy-definitionThe entire history of humans on Earth is an unending cycle of birth within a biological body, a short lifetime of pain, intermittent pleasure, chaos, death and rebirth. So far as I know there has been few, if any, how have escaped this cycle. Many spiritual teachers and pretenders have claimed to have discovered “the way” to spiritual emancipation from this cycle. Religion organizations uniformly claim that their “group” are the “only ones” who know “the way”.

However, every Is-Be is completely unique.  (Is-Be = Immortal Spiritual Being, or Sentient Being) No two are the same.  Each one has a 1,000 small variables which identify them uniquely, like a thumbprint.

The “Golden Rule” is a philosophy and practice of kindness toward others and toward ourselves.  It is empathy…. being able and willing to “be” another being, to see through their eyes, to feel the feelings they experience.  This is understanding.  Every great guru describes a similar idea.

There is not enough pleasure or kindness on Earth to counter-balance all of the psychotic beings in this universe who play “duality games” of good / evil.  Such beings do not experience ANY empathy.  They cannot perceive the energy frequency of another Is-Be, except to control it or destroy it!empati

Empathy is the opposite of duality.  Empathy is Oneness.  It is Being and experiencing AS All.  Empathy is a state of being in which there is no duality games, because there is no opponent, no enemy.  Only Being.  Everyone plays together and accomplish a common goal or purpose that is mutually beneficial to all. Everyone “wins”.

I do not think there is any group of Is-Bes in the physical universe that can play a game and also be truly empathetic.  There is no benevolent leader or ruler or army or organization in this universe.  This universe is made of opposites:  positive / negative energy.  If you remove one side or the other the entire universe will collapse and there is no longer a game to play or a universe to play it in!

Apparently, there is not proven “therapy” or “technique” that can be applied to a group of Is-Bes to trap them, or to free them of mental or spiritual enslavement. However, there may be a way “out” of imprisonment for an individual from the chaos and psychotic duality of the “Game of Earth”.  Empathy. Be all, and every, and each, as yourself.

— Lawrence R. Spencer. November 2015.

...and other stuff, ART, BULLSHIT, FREE ADVICE, INSIDE THE BOOK, LIVES, MOVING PICTURES, SOUNDS

EMPATHY vs POVERTY

Republished by Blog Post Promoter

shantaramI am reading an extraordinarily novel based on life experiences living in the slums of Mumbai (Bombay) the largest city in India, by the author Gregory David Roberts.  In his novel Shantaram, the author reveals and relives his escape from prison in Australia and into anonymity of the ubiquitous slums of the largest city in India. As a work of art and literature the book is a masterpiece. Certainly one of the very best of thousands of books I’ve read.

This book changed my  perspective on the selfless spirit and essential goodness of human beings. By contrast, the book exposes the rotting flesh of possession and wealth for it’s own sake — maniacally enforced on Earth by soul-crushing materialists.

I don’t know how to solve the disparity between wealth and poverty, good and evil, wisdom and stupidity. But, I am very sure that my Empathy has been magnified and focused by contrasting the squalid reality of daily life of sub-human slums in the shadow of the skyscrapers that house the wealthiest people in India. Empathy costs nothing except knowing that all sentient beings feel love and suffer the same pain we ourselves.   — Lawrence R. Spencer, 2015