36 years: A Path of Compassion

I embarked on a conscious path of compassion 36 years ago. I had always been a very kind and caring person because my mother and grandmother were very kind to me and I had had whooping cough at 2 and blunt trauma childhood epilepsy from 10 to 15 years of age. This made me kinder and more conscientious than most children I knew. I didn't want others to suffer as much as I had because of these two events in my life. So, I was always very kind and understanding, especially to girls and women who I didn't have to fight to defend myself or argue with that much. Remember, I was a child in the 1950s when violence not guns was the problem. Now people are all repressed and don't understand themselves at all. But then, people knew who they were more than now instead of being driven crazy by politeness and political correctness which only confuses everyone. So now, people just shoot each other rather than having fist fights and talking so much as before. People didn't die as much before. They might not have agreed they just didn't die from their disagreements as much as now.

But, back to a path of compassion. in 1980 I met my first Tibetan Lama in Ashland Oregon when he gave me and my family, the Thousand Buddhas Empowerment also called "The Sword which pierces all defilement". This day changed my life in a variety of ways. But, one of them was I began a conscious path of Compassion towards all beings in the universe. In some ways one could say I was always on this path. However, I began a commitment towards this specific path. I didn't stop being a mystical Christian that I had always been. However, I added to this a specific path of compassion in helping all life in the Universe towards the end of suffering and enlightenment.

This path and choice completely changed the trajectory of my life. I can look back to those moments and see this choice brought me health, wealth and happiness and peace into my life. No longer was I as angry as I had been before of all the wrongs done to me in my life. No longer was I as sad as I had been before. No longer was I holding grudges I had held for some time. I gave all that away to God and realized my specific focus needed to be compassion for all life in the universe in the past, present and future. This somehow changed everything in my life as I moved forward from there.

So, I can trace a sea change from this point in my life.

I can see how every decision was different in my life since then.

I can see why I have felt happier and more at peace each day since then.

My life of kindness had done a quantum jump and became something amazing.

And it all started with a conscious decision to base my life not only on kindness but also compassion for all life in the universe in the past, present and future.