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# Re: Re: Mundane Relationships

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- Subject: Re: [BardonPraxis] Re: Mundane Relationships
- From: "Rawn Clark" <rawnclark@...>
- Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 11:50:14 -0800
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    Dear Allen,

    >> My friend recommended that I might volunteer to help less fortunate
    people - he believe it really helps one to connect more to people and
    develop a deeper love for mankind. <<

    It can, but not when it's done for selfish reasons. If it's just about
    what *you* can get out of it and not about simply *doing for others*,
    then it's not *giving*. Instead, it's just a more subtle version of
    *taking*. Giving is what breeds compassion, not taking.

    >> During my meditations last night, I was reminded there are people
    like Victor Frankl, who did not judge his captors and managed to create
    peace from within. Quite a mighty feat considering his circumstances. <<

    The key to this is the recognition of yourself in others. This begins
    at the level of the mundane self. For example when you encounter some
    one who is stuck in a very petty, surface-of-existence life, you see
    your past self which was at one time living that same sort of life. You
    remember how painful and bleak that was, compared to now and you feel
    compassion for their plight which was once your own. You see some one
    who is swept away by their anger and you see all the times that you too
    were swept away. In other words, compassion for another is first the
    recognition of how much alike you are, and then the love you feel for
    your own self pours forth into the one you are like because of your
    commonality.

    As the individual consciousness expands and the memories of one's past
    incarnations surface, one experiences commonality with just about every
    act imaginable, from the most horrific to the most sublime. And when
    the awareness merges with the Divine, you share commonality with *every*
    thing, *every* who, what, when, where and why.

    My best to you,
    :) Rawn Clark
    21 Nov 2003
    rawnclark@...
    rawn@...
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    - From: Allen Kray <sourceport@...>

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