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sonnie_dee
I don't think people lack compassion more that they are trying to put the teachings they have learnt into practice and these teachings often overtake a persons natural compassion.
The thing is, the "teachings" teach self-rejection, self-disconnection and lack of self-compassion. When one follows them one [i:f553d90a9c]will[/i:f553d90a9c] be cold-hearted, as that is the nature of the "teachings", toward self & others.
Similar to your friend who was diagnosed with cancer, when my father died and I was sad, I was chastised for being a VICTIM & wallowing. There was a leadership meeting one night soon after he died and in my gut I did not want to go. I got phone calls that that's where my people, my support would be. So, under pressure I got in my car and started out. A few minutes later I checked in with my REAL self, the self that has compassion, and knew that meeting would be the WRONG place to be in my grief and vulnerability. I turned the car around and went home. I had envisioned myself in the meeting and I saw clearly that what I would get there would be criticism (which THEY said was support). I started to see the tip of the iceberg of the LIES I'd been trying to live by for six years. And my father's death is what really set me free from it.