I read somewhere recently that Mother Teresa was concerned with "sees" the poor in Calcutta as fellow human beings, and that is not "see" them was letting that both them and ourselves. One could read that haughty attitude of extreme kindness, but one could also read as practice and actually quite introspective meditative.
Sympathy presupposes the ability to recognize that the other person is coordinated through your mind. When consciously or unconsciously ignore someone, either because they're poor or because they don't want their looks or opinions or anything else, actually fail to recognize a part of yourself. Therefore "sees" someone who used to overlook that involves fishing contact with your hidden self.Meditation goes the other way around. First, it helps to see yourself clearly and, based on this, develop compassion for others.
Tags: charity, compassion, introspection, Meditation
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