Verschreibe dich dem Ziel der bedingungslosen Liebe und des Mitgefühls für alles Leben in all seinen Ausdrucksformen, und übergib alles Urteilen GOTT.¹
FU Dr. David Hawkins, Das All-sehende Auge, S. 289

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Nach Hawkins bedeutet Mitgefühl angesichts von anhaltender Not und Widrigkeiten, unendliche Geduld und zu jeder Zeit und unter allen Umständen eine gütige, barmherzige und liebevolle Haltung einzunehmen. Dies gilt auch für das eigene Selbst und für die eigenen Gedanken.

Avalokiteshvara, Bodhisattva des universellen Mitgefühls

Mitgefühl schwingt auf der Bewusstseinsebene von 560 und ist eines der machtvollsten aller Attraktorfelder. Durch wirkliches Verständis darüber, was es bedeutet, ein Mensch zu sein, erwächst Mitgefühl – für andere und sich selbst – und löst damit das Einteilen, Beurteilen, Verurteilen und Verdammen ab. Mitgefühl transformiert die Wahrnehmung in Vision.

Mitgefühl als Bewusstseinebene ist die Ebene von Heiligen, spirituellen Heilern und fortgeschritten spirituellen Schülern. In der Evolution des Bewusstseins entwickelt sich Liebe zu bedingungsloser Liebe und weiter zu Mitgefühl.

Mitleid wird mitunter fälschlicherweise mit Mitgefühl verwechselt. Mitleid ist selbstzentriertes Mitleiden.

Wenn Liebe und Barmherzigkeit durch Mitgefühl aufrechterhalten werden, ist Leiden nicht möglich.

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Die Umstände des Menschseins – Conditio humana

Ein Mensch wird geboren

ohne bewusste Erinnerung an eine Wahl/Entscheidung für
- einen Tierkörper samt Denk- und Gefühlsorganen
- (eventuell schwierige) Familienverhältnisse, soziales Leben in einer komplexen Zivilisation
ohne Wissen
- des eigenen Karmas und Gruppenkarmas
- der unsichtbaren negativ beeinflussenden Energiefelder
- seiner Identität
mit der Notwendigkeit
- ein Gefühl für sich selbst und seine Identität zu entwickeln
- umfangreiche, komplizierte Fertigkeiten auf vielen Ebenen zu erlernen, um zu überleben
mit der Folge, der
- Abspaltung eines Aspekts des Selbstbildes, das zum inneren Feind, zum Angreifer, wird und Aufrührer von Schuld, Angst und Gewissensbissen sowie unaufhörlicher Selbstverurteilung
mit der Auseinandersetzung
- bewusster und
- unbewusster Daten und Energiefelder
- überwältigender Erfahrungen
einem fehlerhaften Gehirn
- mit seinen eingebauten Mechanismus von Belohnung und Wohlgefühl
- seiner naiven, leicht programmierbaren Software
- mit sofortiger Umsetzung einer Erfahrung, ohne sie ausgiebig zu ergründen
- mit Vergesslichkeit und dem Verlust erheblicher Datenanteile
mit dem Potential verdrängter Inhalte schmerzhafter Natur als potentielle Munition für
- Selbstangriffe
- Selbstquälerei
- Schuldbewusstsein
- Gewissensbisse
- Selbstmord
- Projektion
- Angst vor Angriffen von außen (Projektion)
- Paranoia

Wenn man sich so mit innerem Verständnis die Situation des Menschen vor Augen hält, wird klar, dass seine Aussichten auf Überleben, Glück und Erfolg aufgrund seiner beschränkten Mittel fragwürdig sind. In weitem Umfang gelingt nicht einmal das Überleben und Millionen Menschen sterben in vielerlei gefährlichen Fallen und Katastrophen. Selbst wenn man persönlich nichts damit zu tun hat, kann man in den Ego-Problemen der Gesellschaft mit gefangen werden, welche sich als Krieg, Pest, Hungersnot oder Unfälle manifestieren. Licht des Alls, S. 102-105

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Mitgefühl und Weisheit gehen Hand in Hand. Das All-sehende Auge, S. 292

Aufgrund des Mitgefühls wächst der Wunsch, eher zu verstehen als zu verurteilen. Mit Verständnis sehen wir, dass die Menschen tatsächlich nicht anders sein können, als sie in einem gegebenen Augenblick sind. Das All-sehende Auge, S. 347

Man legt sein eigenes Schicksal durch Wahl fest. Es gibt keine willkürlichen Mächte, mit denen man rechnen müsste. Liebe wählt Liebe und geht zur Liebe. Der Mechanismus von Vergebung gewährt eben diese Vergebung. Das gesamte Universum ist von Mitgefühl umschlossen, das allen zugänglich ist. Gebet ist wirksam. GOTT "entscheidet" nicht in irgendeiner willkürlichen Art. Die innewohnenden Eigenschaften des Göttlichen sind Barmherzigkeit und Mitgefühl. Licht des Alls, S. 364

Leute unter dem Bewusstseinsniveau 200 haben keine Wahl, ihre Gedanken zurückzuweisen. Dafür verdienen sie um so mehr unser Mitgefühl. Wir haben jedoch die Macht, Gedanken und deren aufputschende Reizwirkung abzuweisen. Das ist eine immense Leistung. Ihr habt das Recht abzuweisen. Tustin Seminar, 22. November 2003

Frage: Wie kann ich mitfühlen, ohne dabei zu verurteilen?
Antwort: Erkenne, dass es sich um eine Wechselbeziehung der Schöpfung handelt und sieh, wie das Karma sich entfaltet. Du bist bereits selbst das Mitgefühl, andernfalls wäre diese Frage nicht in dir aufgetaucht. Sedona Seminar Vision, 25. Februar 2005

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Perhaps from compassion for each other's blindness, we can learn to forgive ourselves, and peace can then be our assured future. Afflicted by Forces Unseen?, excerpt from Power vs. Force, S. ?

The empathy derived from contemplating this Map of Consciousness will hopefully make the path to Joy a shorter one. The key to Joy is unconditional kindness to all life, including one's own, which we refer to as compassion. Without compassion, little of any significance is ever accomplished in human endeavor. Power versus Force, Hay House issue, S. 73

Compassion is one of the highest of all energy attractor power patterns. Power vs. Force, S. 86

Compassion is instrumental for any advancement of consciousness. Power versus Force, Hay House issue, S. 233

Spiritual truth, then, is universally true and without variation through time or place. It always brings peace, harmony, accord, love, compassion, and mercy. Truth can be identified by these qualities. All else is the invention of the ego. The Eye of the I, S. 40

Choose to be easygoing, benign, forgiving, compassionate and unconditionally loving towards all life in all its expressions without exception, including oneself. Focus on unselfish service and the giving of love, consideration, and respect to all creatures. The Eye of the I, S. 65

Familiarity with more compassionate viewpoints of life tend to potentiate them; thus, the traditional spiritual advice to 'mingle with holy company' and avoid negative companions. This potentiates progressive discernment of more appropriate attitudes and habits of thought. The Eye of the I, S. 138

Ask for direction and divine assistance and surrender all personal will through devotion. Dedicate one’s life to the service of God. Choose love and peace above all other options. Commit to the goal of unconditional love and compassion for all life in all its expression and surrender all judgment to God. The Eye of the I, S. 201

Compassion for the self is an attribute of the Self. Thus, the last great resistance to be surrendered is the resistance to the ever-present Love of God. Transcending Levels of Consciousness, S. 354

One's inner spiritual evolution is of greater value to society than any form of doingness. The level of compassion radiates out and contributes silently to mankind's wisdom. I. Subjectivity and Reality, S. 301

Question Susanne Spitzer: How may we develop our brains? I would hope each person has the capacity to develop compassion.
Answer D. Hawkins: It does not seem to be so. To spiritual people it seems plausible, but the study of the evolution of consciousness reveals that there are people who are not capable. Those who cannot, are not even conditioned by Pavlovian conditioning. They put their hand on the plate, get it burned, then turn around and do it again. Interview On the Trilogy of Book 1, 2 and 3, presented by Openexchange.org, Susanne Spitzer, 2004

We will try to understand the structure of the ego and how it arose over great expanses of time. We will also discover how to be friendly with the ego and dissolve it rather than reinforcing it by attacking it. Every time you attack the ego you reinforce it through guilt and shame. Attacking the ego – making it wrong and labeling it "sin" – is not helpful. You can only transcend it by familiarity, non-condemnation, acceptance, and compassion for one's own ego. The high road to compassion is through understanding and acceptance. Interview On the Trilogy of Book 1, 2 and 3, presented by Openexchange.org, Susanne Spitzer, 2004

It is important to see the simple things because the ego is built of bricks. Once you remove one or two bricks the whole wall comes falling down. You don't have to go to an ashram for three months and eat figs. Just the willingness in ordinary life to be kind and forgiving and compassionate is enough. Interview Power vs. Force, presented by US magazine Light in Times, Kathryn M. Brinkley, November 2004

For example, one could therefore choose kindness, compassion, forgiveness, understanding, or non-critical acceptance. One could choose to be unconditionally loving or committed to seeing the innocence of life. Whatever principle is chosen then has to be applied to everyone, including oneself, without exception, and with absolute persistence. Interview The Path of Simplicity, presented by US magazine Light in Times, March 2005

Reframing enables you to have compassion for yourself and others because you see that you did what you thought was right at the time. Interview with David R. Hawkins, presented by US magazine Holistic Networker, Gina Mazza Hillier, 13. August 2005

Question UH, Matt Laughlin: In the context of consciousness, when one gives up their life for something greater than their personal self, whether for a friend or nation. […] it really raises one’s level of consciousness.
Answer DH: Yes, indeed. The willingness to give all the way to the level of even life itself out of compassion and concern and love for your fellow man is a very high gift and it raises one’s level of consciousness rapidly and enormously. Interview Consciousness and Medicine, Matt Laughlin, health magazine Unified Health!, Vol 4, No. 12, pg, 6, PDF, summer 2008

People under LoC 200 don't have the choice to say no to their thoughts. For this, they deserve even more of our compassion. Tustin Seminar, AZ, 22. November 2003

The way we dissolve the ego is through love, compassion — not because Buddha or Jesus said so, but because we recognize it for what it is. Sedona Seminar Thought and Ideation, 28. February 2004

Survival is me, ego, the animal is driven by hungryness, never enough, the core of the ego is wantingness. It wants more of everything, is greedy, desiring, insatiable, you cannot satisfy it. The average person is driven by this instinct, this primitivism. This is the basic nature of the ego, survival. Once you know that, you can have compassion for it [the ego] and treat it like a pet. Chicago Seminar, 10. April 2004

Question: Where is the line between showing love and compassion for someone, and karmically interfering with someone’s life? How can you know when it's one or the other?
Answer: It's the sophistication of knowing when something is appropriate and when it's inappropriate. You can use kinesiology to ask, in the name of the highest good, is intervening appropriate, yes or no? Sometimes hitting bottom is the source of someone's salvation. Are you truly doing it for their sake? Sedona Seminar Identification and Illusion, 14. August 2004

Emotionality is based on perception. Compassion results from a discernment of truth. Sedona Seminar The Ego and The Self, 11. December 2004

Question: How do you be compassionate without forming a judgment?
Answer: You see that it's the interaction of creation and how karma unfolds. You are already that, otherwise it wouldn't be in you to ask this question. Sedona Seminar Vision, 25. February 2005

Compassion – intuiting the sacredness of all of life […] the Divinity of all of creation. You see the sacredness of all that exists. It stands out from everything when you reach a certain level. It makes it difficult to function for awhile. Sedona Seminar God, Religion and Spirituality, 10. December 2005

Question: I would like to speak compassionately to a person that is dying. He is not spiritual. What can I say?
Answer: You can bless them. Look deep in their eyes, you can then "see" their soul. In my practice I did that with "impossible" patients where everything had been tried and I connected my actual reality with their actual reality which is the same thing. Sometimes that healed them. Mother Teresa did the same thing. When they were healed they saw that their crippled bodies no longer mattered. Sedona Satsang Q&A, transcribed by Rune Nordhagen, 8. November 2006

Your commitment to be kind toward all things is what brings up the unkind! It is your commitment that brings it up and your ego says, “Oh, yeah? How about now!” Forgive yourself for being mean and nasty to that person – even though he deserved it! :-) Sedona Seminar Experiental Reality, February 2007

Feeling compassion is more essential than showing compassion. [paraphrased] Sedona Seminar Practical Spirituality, 25. October 2008

Attempt to have compassion for the degree to which the narcissistic core of the ego enslaves humanity. Sedona Satsang Q&A, 8. November 2008

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OM AMI SATTVA MANI PADME HUM.
Übersetzung: Ich rufe die Buddhas des Lichts und des Mitgefühls, jegliches Kleinod, das in der Lotusblüte auftaucht, vom Kreislauf des Leides befreien.

Das ethische Verhalten eines Menschen sollte auf Mitgefühl, Erziehung und sozialen Bindungen basieren; eine religiöse Basis ist nicht notwendig. Ein Mensch würde in einer armseligen Weise handeln, wenn sein Verhalten durch die Angst vor Bestrafung oder die Erwartung einer Belohnung nach dem Tod bestimmt würde. Albert Einstein

Ein Mensch ist Teil des Ganzen, das wir "Universum" nennen, begrenzt in Raum und Zeit. Er erlebt sich selbst, sein Denken und Fühlen als abgetrennt gegenüber dem Rest, eine Art von optischer Täuschung seines Bewusstseins. Diese Wahnvorstellung ist ein Gefängnis, das uns auf unsere persönlichen Bedürfnisse und die Zuneigungen zu einigen uns nahe stehenden Personen beschränkt. Es muss unsere Aufgabe sein, uns aus diesem Gefängnis zu befreien, indem wir den Kreis des Mitgefühls für andere ausweiten, so dass es alle lebenden Geschöpfe und die gesamte Natur in ihrer Schönheit umfasst. Niemand kann diese Aufgabe vollends erfüllen, doch gerade die Anstrengungen, dieses Ziel zu erreichen, sind ein Teil der Befreiung und ein Fundament für das innere Vertrauen. Albert Einstein

Mitgefühl kein Gefühlszustand ist, den wir ”erlangen” müssen oder eine moralische Entscheidung, die wir treffen müssen. Mitgefühl steigt auf, wenn man die Dinge sieht, wie sie wirklich sind. Es übersteigt die moralischen Ansichten von gut und böse, richtig und falsch, heilig und unheilig, dein Gott und mein Gott. Es ist schlicht die natürliche Bewegung der Liebe, die du und alle Dinge sind. Chameli Gad Ardagh, Komm dir näher, J.Kamphausen Verlag, 2008

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Personal avowals

My own mother, for instance, was very kind. So today, the first seed of my compassion came from my mother, not from Buddhism. After studying Buddhism, it merely increased. If I didn’t have that kind of a kind mother or if my parents had abused me, then today maybe it would be difficult for me to practice compassion. Therefore, the seed of compassion is a biological factor. We need it for survival. H.H. the 14. Dalai Lama, Religious Harmony, Compassion,and Islam, transcribed and lightly edited by Alexander Berzin, Milan, Italy, 9. December 2007

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. H.H. Dalai Lama

I have a certain amount of affection and compassion towards others. The seed of that did not come from Buddhism, it did not come from religion, it came from my mother. H.H. Dalai Lama, writings

A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Albert Einstein

Compassion – an evolutionary ? force

In however complex a manner compassion [sympathy] may have originated as it is one of high importance to all those animals which aid and defend one another it will have been increased through natural selection for those communities which included the greatest number of the most compassionate [sympathetic] members would flourish best and rear the greatest number of offspring. Charles Darwin [LoC 455]

Familial compassion is a given. Compassion is restrained to the members of the family and it is strongest to the infant. [...] For some people familial compassion embraces humanity. These people are unbelievably understudied because we need to learn from them. Paul Ekman, Ph.D., US American anthropologist, psychologist, Does Darwin Illuminate Emotion and Spirituality?, sponsored by Wonderfest, filmed by Fora.TV, 15. "Darwin, Spirituality and Compassion", 1:26:05 minutes duration, aired 8. November 2009

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless. Eric Hoffer

A study at Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management found that compassion and building teamwork will be two of the most important characteristics business leaders will need for success a decade from now. Doc Childre and Bruce Cryer, Heartmath Institute

Mostly what we do is not so much hate each other. What we mostly do is not understand each other. […] I think if I could really understand another human being as well as physically possible, let’s say, that individual becomes more interesting to me rather than less interesting. At least this happens with everything else that I’ve done in life and probably happens to most people and happens for sure to scientists. That the more they understand something, the more they like it, the more they love it, the more they understand it, and there’s an incredible feeling of, not of possession, but of being a part of something when you understand it. Video interview with Rodolfo Llinás, Columbian-American neuroscientist, professor of Neuroscience, Chairman of the department of Physiology and Neuroscience, NYU School of Medicine, on Enter the "i of the vortex", Transcript, PDF, presented by The Science Network (TSN), The Science Studio, host Roger Bingham, 1:12:00 duration, 17. April 2007

Only human beings make the error of altruism. Richard Dawkins, British zoologist, neoskeptical theoretical biologist

Compassion is contempt with a human face. John McCarthy

Compassion is no substitute for justice. Rush Limbaugh, US American TV show host

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Index: Mitgefühl / Compassion – Bücher von D. Hawkins

Das All-sehende Auge, S.
Licht des Alls, S.

Englische Werke

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Literatur

Pyar Bodhichitta, Das erwachte Herz. Das Sieben-Punkte-Geistestraining für Weisheit und Mitgefühl, J.Kamphausen Verlag; 1. Auflage, ISBN 3899010426, März 2005
Daisetz T. Suzuki, japanischer Zen-Philosoph (1870-1966), Karuna. Zen und der Weg der tätigen Liebe, O. W. Barth, ISBN 3502645973, November 2002

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Wikipedia-Einträge Empathie, Mitgefühl

Interview mit Brian Swimme, Umfassendes Mitgefühl, präsentiert von WIE-Magazin, Ausgabe 6, Susan Bridle
Mitgefühlsstudie von Prof. Richard Davidson (f-Kernspin-Hirnscans von tibetischen Mönchen), Gehirne von Tibet-Mönchen drastisch verändert, Welt online Wissen, 26. März 2008
Emotionale Verkettung. Empathie ist auf Körpergefühle angewiesen., Deutschlandfunk, Martin Hubert, 11. August 2008

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Wikipedia entries Empathy, Compassion

Charter for Compassion, founded by Karen Armstrong
Lynne McTaggart, researcher, Making a monkey out of science, TheIntentionExperiment.com, 17. April 2009

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Video interview with James Barrett, student of religious and mystical traditions, created a real-time heart biofeedback device to demonstrate principles and spectra signature of compassion (1996-2000), The Silent Gospel, presented by Conscious Media Network, host Regina Meredith, 38:05 minutes duration, posted June 2007
Video lecture by Professor Richard Davidson, neuroscientist, Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior, University of Wisconsin–Madison, compassion study, Be Happy Like a Monk, presented by The Wisconsin Academy, Google video, 28:58 minutes duration, 13. February 2007
Video presentation by Daniel Goleman, psychologist, On compassion, presented by TED Talks, 13:14 minutes duration, filmed March 2007, posted December 2007
Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education, Stanford University School of Medicine on New center at Stanford to study brain's role in compassion, altruism, to study the brain's role in compassion, altruism, YouTube film, 4:00 minutes duration, posted by stanfordmedicine 12. February 2009
Video presentation by George Lakoff, professor of cognitive linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, sponsored by World Changing Careers Conference, July 2009, Empathy and Sustainability, YouTube film, 8:53 minutes duration, posted 27. July 2009
Video presentation and Q&A by H.H. the 14. Dalai Lama on Ethics for Our Time, emphasizing the importance of compassion, sponsored by University of California, Department of Religious Studies, Santa Barbara, USA, 24. April 2009, filmed and presented by UCtelevision, program Voices, 1:49:50 duration, 7. August 2009
Video lecture by Professor Richard Davidson, neuroscientist, Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Transform Your Mind, Change Your Brain, on the neuroscientific research of positive human qualities as compassion and how they can be cultivated through contemplative practice, presented Google Tech Talks, 23. September 2009, YouTube film, 1:05:21 duration, posted 28. September 2009
By 2050 I believe mental exercise will be understood as being as important as physical exercise.
Video presentation by George Lakoff, professor of cognitive linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, On Empathy, 25. February 2010, YouTube film, 6:12 minutes duration, posted 2. March 2010
Video presentation by Dacher Keltner, professor of psychology, Greater Good Science Center on On Compassion, presented by TEDxBerkeley, UC Berkeley, 3. April 2010, YouTube film, 18:16 minutes duration, posted 19. June 2010