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Compassion Is The Way of Enlightenment For All World Religions
Posted on May 8th, 2007
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Ocean
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for May 08, 2007:
Compassion is the Way
All great world religions start with Compassion.
All the great world religions share one basic theme - Compassion.
Compassion is the healing wholeness that we all seek and that the survival-strategies that are based on separateness lack.
The soul seeks wholeness, universalism, and most of all - truth.
The truth is at the heart of Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, and every Holy person and Mystic who has had the so-called Right Hand Path has espoused this One Truth - that Compassion to All Beings is the Way to Enlightenment.
Being Vegan is being Compassionate.
First, Do No Harm.
Compassion is the Way.
We are All One.
Compassionize
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totally agree.
Compassion is the common ground of all true religions.
And the true compassion is extended onto all living things.
However…I see that Islam has not been mentioned. There is certainly some lack of compassion there.
Neither is Judaism mentioned - and also many other great religions.
I'm not iwell-enough nformed on the compassionate teachings of either of these two very closely related Monotheistic relgions originated in the same place - the Arabian Peninsula.
I believe they both have mystic sects who teach and practice compassion toward all beings, and I'd love to hear about these.
I do know that kosher butchering causes some of the very worst suffering to “totally innocent beings”, in the immortal words of a Jewish writer I adore, Issac Bashevis Singer, and that Jewish vegans tell others about this often - as at the wonderful site,
http://www.brook.com/jveg/
He was very well-informed about his own religion.
If you are or know someone who is well-informed about the compassoinate aspects of Islam, I'd love to learn about them too.
I see that you either choose to see in my postings a slight to someone or you'd like to express that compassion is somehow wrong.
My view is that Compassion is either complete - expressed especially toward the helpless and innocents - or it is utterly meaningless.
So, too, is compassion viewed by the great religions I mentioned above, - at least so they were intended to state - and I hope all those I didn't mention also include complete Compassion.
I don't know alot about either Judaism or Islam. My comment was in reference to the lack of human rights for many …especially woman who are in the Moslem religion. I read a book called “Burned Alive ” about a woman who was burned by her brother in law for her relationship with a man. Her parents appoved of this. This is actually “legal” in certain countries. I don't see compassion there. I'm sure there are compassionate Moslems but the religion itself allows for something else.
The abuse and subordination of females by the larger male primates is something we see in all the Great Ape family we belong to.
It, like many tendencies in our species, is risen above by cultural traditions, education, and, yes, ideally by religions.
Religions, being interpreted - and most often, poorly - by those whose appetites to do exactly what they wish have caused many today to be disenchanted with all religions.
That's why so many people are at this site, probably.
I know that Muhammed, who greatly revered and respected women, and who personally changed entire socieites from selling women as slaves to respecting them as even property owners, had elevated their status considerably, and that his intent was twisted, as was Jesus', Buddha's, and Lao-Tze's, among many others, by harsh societal traditions, greed, and the other human vices.
Sati was brought, sadly, Southward, by my ancestors, the Vikings.
Before then, it was unknown in India and in the other countries.
Even in Viking society in those days, most often women joined their husbands in battles when there was room on the ships, and women who were the actual wives could have more freedom than we think that women in the past had enjoyed.
In America, now, still there is no democracy for females.
Still women earn less than men in the same job doing the same things.
In other continents it is much worse.
But no religion - and certainly not Islam - teaches this horrible crime as part of its' religion, although certain sects have chosen to allow it if not to condone it, as part of their traditions.
Religions themselves are the main hope we have of teaching compassion, tolerance, and peacefulness.
I respect all relgions, personally, in their purest forms, and hope that our logical minds will prevail over our emotional instincts - basically, it's the light over the darkness in all of us that I truly hope will prevail.