Compassion: A Nonviolent necessity

[Focus Shift]

This past year I've been thinking a lot about compassion in my spiritual practice, for personal reasons as well as political. I'm sure many people find it difficult to find compassion when there seems to be so little of it in the mainstream discourse. How can harmful figures be challenged while ourselves maintaining unconditional love for being? Compassion is needed now more than ever, at a time when society appears to be increasingly divided. It may seem strange to read that we should practice compassion towards those who commit evil acts. With this understanding we can practice compassion even toward our adversaries. Advocating for compassion is not just a call for half assed reforms, but the embodiment of a radical state of being.  Even the duality between common people and elites would collapse through widespread practice of compassion. This duality only exists and is maintained through collectively held and enforced perceptions.

If you'd like to read the full article here, I'd love to hear your thoughts. I'm also curious what elements of spiral dynamics this comes across as. One of my goals as an activist is to introduce yellow and turqoise concepts to a primarily stage green demographic. 

https://www.theactivistplaybook.net/post/on-compassion-commitment-to-non-violence

 

[Apparition of Jack]

We’ll lovebomb Trump out of the White House  

[Focus Shift]

Not necessarily. We can recognize how destructive his policies are, while also understanding why he exists.

[Boethius]

Have you read Martin Luther King Jr.'s speeches on nonviolence?

I have found them to be intriguing.

[carterfelder]

We cannot be compassionate as long as we continue to treat nonhuman animals like things by owning, using, and killing them for morally unnecessary reasons such as convenience, habit, tradition or pleasure. As long as we continue to eat from animals at nearly every single (or any) meal, we will never be a compassionate species.

Edited June 16 by carterfelder