Compassion
_AM: What is your passion?
_I: Emm I don't know... Maybe, teach, educate...
_AM: And that's why it's what weighs on you the most.
_I: In what sense?
_AM: Educating fascinates you, you could spend hours, and it is precisely what exhausts you the most, because you take so much energy to do it, that you end up exhausted...
_I: It's true... I don't take time to rest. These days I was getting up very early to go to the pyramids with the people, then explain a thousand things, write each day's post, then continue with the conferences, and later with the alignment. I dedicate so much energy to it that it exhausts me, but it is something that I am passionate about, and I still end up hurt, heavy, tired, and all sunburned on my face... But hey, it's what you get for doing what you want. like.
_AM: That's why it's your passion. Do you know what passion is?
_I: No…
_AM: Suffering.
_I: What!?
_AM: Passion, comes from the Latin Passio, which is the linguistic formation in the noun of “Patire” (to suffer), which means Pain.
_I: Ha! Now I understand why they say “the Passion of Christ”. I always thought it seemed strange that they describe torture as exciting. We usually associate the word Passion with romantic things, or things that we love to do, however, from what you say, passion is something very negative based on pain. Why have we given it such a different attribute?
_AM: It is an enantiosemia. Do you remember enantiomers?
_I: Molecules that are identical but mirrored and their qualities are completely opposite, making some beneficial and their reflections harmful.
_AM: Well, the word Passion is a semantic enantiomer: enantiosemia. The word arose from the idea of suffering, but over time it became a synonym to describe what it costs us to get what we want. “I suffered to get it but I achieved it”, “I love this but it will hurt to pay for it”, “I want to change the world but it is a very difficult and exhausting task”. I could give thousands of examples, but humans in general tend to understand that to achieve something you have to make an effort, work hard; and that work, from ancestral concepts, is related to the pain caused by working in the field to get food. It's hard to get what you want, and you need to work hard to get it. Nothing comes just because, unless you have managed to understand how alchemical co-creation and manifestation works. Therefore, if there is something that you really like, you must put a lot of effort into obtaining it, achieving it, living it; and therefore, this effort is understood as pain. Thus, on the same page, the word suffer is synonymous with achieving something through effort. Thus, Patire, with his pain “Passio”, become Passion. What you love to do, so you would do anything to achieve it.
_I: I understand... So passion is found in effort... Or rather, with effort I manage to live my passion.
_AM: What you are passionate about wears you out, consumes your life, demands too much energy on your part, and causes several cells in you to die. I do not recommend having passions, but rather “doing things you love.”
_I: Sure. What do they mean when they say “low passions”?
_AM: There are different types of passions, that is, pains in the body. The lower passions are the ailments of the lower part of the physical body, those related to needs: sleeping, eating and reproducing, which we can translate as the engines of life, but which in turn lead us to be dependent on the external, wasting our personal energy trying to get them. The passions of the heart are romances, the need to feel loved, needed by the other, which activates service, making oneself available to the other in order to have an emotional reward. The high passions would be the psychic, intellectual arts, art, interpretation, philosophy, service. Everything that is based on a need will be fueled by passion, by the effort you have to make to achieve the goal. But there is also another type of passion, one that has nothing to do with achieving something you want or need.
_I: Which one?
_AM: The one that makes you support the other, the passion that makes you feel what the other feels, helping them to fulfill their passions, to resolve their regrets, to identify their efforts and accompany them to make their path more bearable. That passion is what you know as Compassion.
_I: Would it be a joint passion?
_AM: The Greek word for compassion is Syn Pathós, which gave rise to Sympathy, that is, accompanying the pain, the emotion, what the other feels. But in Rome, they took the Greek word and Latinized it, turning it into “Campassion,” a word that took on a deeper meaning than its Greek namesake.
_I: Having compassion, isn't it taking pity on those who suffer?
_AM: It is feeling what others suffer, and acting based on said suffering to help them get out of it. Compassion is the emotional attribute par excellence, which shows the ability of a being to put themselves in the shoes of another.
_I: But… isn't that the same as empathy?
_AM: Oh no, because empathy only describes the sensitivity of a being to what the other feels, putting oneself in their place only in relation to what they feel, without foreseeing resolutions. Compassion, on the other hand, does not rest until it seeks resolution, helps this person get out of this state, to transform it. When you see a hurt child, when you see an abandoned or hungry animal, a cut down tree, a hurt or suffering person; Feeling compassion makes us know that we are sharing the suffering, the pain, but that you intend to move forward, afloat, looking for solutions to resolve this moment of tension or pain.
_I: So feeling compassion makes me not only an empathetic and sensitive being, but also a transformer of that energy.
_AM: The word Passion also gave rise to an adjective that you know as “Passive”. This term describes that pain prevents you from moving, and as in illness, you must remain still to be helped, receive energy instead of giving it and activate yourself. Passive is related to pain, remaining still. Passive is the negative aspect of the action, so passion is the negative movement of energy, which descends the inspiration from the divine towards the material, as if through a funnel. It is a kind of energetic depression, which attracts what fascinates you, but the effort generates such a waste of energy that you see it forcibly disappear through an energetic drain. But there, at the bottom of the abyss, he finds Compassion, with the same feeling multiplied on the part of others, like a tree that supports the other with its roots. Compassion understands the problem, the suffering, and tries to solve it, raising its vibration.
_I: Creating an emotional torus.
_AM: Exactly. A toroid of empathy, sympathy and compassion.
_I: Pain being the emotional key that awakens us to resolve conflicts, to evolve, to transcend what we cannot see. As a trauma that can be seen from the physical perspective as a blow or wound, both from the psychological level and as an emotional wound. Pain reminds us of what we must work on, what we must assimilate, understand, transcend, heal, and its results make us grow, expand, become better people.
_AM: This is why Compassion is the key in many cultures to keep the species united, surviving; Well, it is the key to understanding every emotional system without clinging to the emotion and sinking in it, but rather supporting each other to continue moving forward, evolving. Like a forest that embraces the trees, supporting the oldest ones.
_I: How people who look for ways to help others, creating institutions, mobilizing...
_AM: Compassion is the attitude of all emotion. It is what motivates us, mobilizes us to act in favor of the great being that I am together with others. It is the eternal emotion, key to the evolution of the soul.
_I: It is the will that mobilizes me to transform my shadows into light, eternally...
_AM: Discover the Compassion that lives in you, and through its will, you will be able to transform the World.