Jim,
Sounds good to me. Yes, there's lots to be done.
The key of returning to the one being, and having no special mind, is that,
then, one will act in natural and perfect response to and in accord with,
conditions.
This is the only and safest way to be Compassionate.
It's been said here before that compassion is not necessarily something you
FEEL. When it is true compassion, it is something that operates spontaneously
and seamlessly with conditions and causes. One doesn't plan to so act.
It's possible to take on a "practice" of acting compassionately, as a Yoga,
say, but one can still do lots of harm from that position. I don't trust that
sort of action, even when it does some seeming good.
"What went wrong" is "just" the loss of sight of the whole by the parts, and
the identity of the parts with themselves, and not with the whole.
Now, how *that* happened, or happens, is up to you.
--Joe
> "jfnewell7" <jfnewell7@...> wrote:
>
> Yes, philosophically, and I see no reason that isn't true, [snip]
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