"Manifestation is costly"

In her teaching, Caroline Myss mentions that "manifestation is costly". And the burden of modern life seems to spring from a lack of this vision. In ancient societies and in the eastern societies, life was programmed that this vision was in perspective. In modern society, Dr.Phil, Caroline Myss and Wayne Dyer hold this vision and what a gift to bring that message to life again and again. A mother with a child will be considered to live the most deep way of living; a family will be honored for holding themselves as a family; a person in hard labor will be honored for the amount of his spirit that has gone into the process.

So what is going to unburden through the superficialities or mindlessness? The Rigpa daily email messages has taught me to avoid going into the other side to balance this lack of perspective - that of PITYING. Pitying is a kind of arrogance it said; as if what is happening to another will not come to you and you separate in the act of pitying. Whereas true Compassion is different from the act of Pitying. By learning to be compassionate, you realise your own vulnerability and feel the suffering as your own, now becoming one with whoever is undergoing that suffering.

Honoring life around oneself as it is instead of pitying will turn this around. This demands that I honor my own life in every single way. Such attitude develops compassion and brings more harmony when coming together as friends or neighbors. There is no point in coming together without revering one's own and each other's life as a form of prayer. Whatever it takes to hold in one's heart to nourish the desire for compassion and harmony, let me pay attention to.

Words and other common acts of appreciation become so loud when living through this kind of reverence and compassion.