What is compassion and what is not? What is cruelty?
Concepts; They are meaning maps that enable our thoughts and beliefs to be expressed. For this reason, human beings explain themselves with concepts. In order to make it easier to describe what is happening, we first need to master the concepts.
Master Necip Fazıl “Compassion is the elixir that we need, like air and water. He emphasized the importance of mercy that will soften hearts by saying "It is a force that can turn an upside down society upside down."
Human is love, human is mercy, human is hope, human is morality, human is virtue. Man recognizes himself in man, man is man's homeland, as man's soul rises, his self lowers and his compassion rises.
Compassion; encompasses all the moral virtues engraved in our creation, eliminates the hardness and gloom of the heart, softens the heart. It is our most important and precious treasure that heals the soul, body and human being.
Compassion; is a moral virtue that softens hardened hearts and enables love to settle over hatred. Compassion is what enlightens the mind and warms the heart.
Compassion; is compassion, feeling, caring, trusting, giving confidence, sharing, sacrifice, love, respect, understanding, being understood, empathy, helpfulness, tears, tolerance, patience, justice. It is responsibility, humility, sensitivity, hearing the cries of the world, softening the heart...
We can compare compassion to that clean and white cover that covers nature after the snow falls. With compassion, we take our love and compassion with us in every step we take from ourselves to others, to the environment, to nature, and just as that white cloth cleans everywhere, we cleanse our souls, cover up evil, and do good to our own and others' souls.
Compassion. If I were to talk about 'what it is not', mercy would be; It is not pity, it is not weakness, it is not always being kind, it is not silent in the face of problems, it is not tolerating suffering, it is not saying yes to everything or doing everything you are told, it is not ignoring or forgetting yourself, it is not giving unlimited freedom to the other person, it is not assuming that the wrong has not happened. …
Cruelty; hu It is lack of purity, lack of love, selfishness, indifference, lack of understanding, intolerance, envy, grudge, succumbing to ambition, arrogance, suspicion, letting a friend down, not keeping one's promise, forgetting death, not doing good, but the most painful thing is lack of compassion is the death of the heart. A person must first have mercy on himself. A person must realize how cruelty causes harm first to himself, then to his environment and to the world, and most importantly, how it pollutes the world.
We give something of ourselves for mercy; time, attention, patience, loyalty, love, care, etc. There is mobility in compassion. Compassion includes taking action with the pain of the other, being unable to stand still with the pain of the other, and making an effort to relieve that pain. Compassion means being able to look at a person with the eyes of his/her life.
He who helps the hand that reaches out to him as much as he can feels better. A person who can share, who runs to the other, who knows the other's pain as his own; In other words, the one who has mercy lives this life more meaningfully and peacefully. Mercy is good for the heart that can show mercy first, and the soul of the one who shows mercy will be healed.
Let's listen to these lines of Mevlana:
Be like the SUN in compassion and mercy
To help others. Be like NIGHT in covering up your flaws
Be like STREAM in generosity and helping
Be like DEAD in anger and irritability,
Be like EARTH in humility and humility
Be like the SEA in tolerance,
EITHER LOOK AS YOU ARE OR BE AS YOU APPEAR
What can be done to teach the feeling of compassion to children and spread it in society? would you recommend?
It is mercy that holds us together, initiates and continues our relationships, makes our lives more meaningful and livable, enlightens our hearts, souls and path, and silences the voice of evil.
It is in our hands and in our creation. We must appreciate what is. We realize the value of what we have when we are about to lose it or when we are faced with losing it.
For example, if our ability to access the water we have is restricted, we understand the value of that water better. To give another example, when any of our limbs are damaged or lost, your presence is priceless. We understand that.
We can give many examples of such concrete situations. There are also virtues that are not concrete, but whose existence we know and whose presence beautifies our lives. Such as mercy, justice, humility, generosity. We must keep these virtues alive. We adults have a great responsibility to develop and strengthen these feelings in our children who have been entrusted to our care. A parent who embraces compassion at every step raises a compassionate child.
We must especially instill compassion in our children, who are the trustees of our future. If we adults have a note we want to send to the future, it is our children who will carry that note and keep it alive.
Let's not forget that we can build a compassionate society as we approach our children, who are the shapers of the future, with our care and love.
I would like to talk a little about the roles of parents in nurturing the child's innate compassion. We can teach the child to behave compassionately by exhibiting compassionate behavior. The child learns by observing and hearing in the first years of life.
First of all, spouses should be compassionate to each other, their environment, living creatures and nature, parents should do some charity activities and visits with the child, if there is a hand asking for help from the parent, they should reach out to that hand with their child and let the child taste the taste of sharing, and the child should help the creatures living on the street. Food and water should be provided. Such seemingly small steps in adult life are of much greater importance in the child's world than expected. Every process that develops a child's compassion makes positive contributions to his spiritual world and psychological resilience.
There is no expectation in compassionate behavior, this should be explained well, especially to children. Finally, I would like to remind you of a legacy left to us by our ancestors. “Do good and throw it into the sea, if the fish doesn't know, the fish will know.”
WHAT ARE THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF COMPASSION TO MENTAL HEALTH?
While giving great importance to physical health; We forget that mental health determines physical health and psychological well-being. The body develops in its natural flow without any intervention and we cannot resist this development. On the contrary, we need to invest in the development of the soul.
Strengthening the immune system of the soul. If we keep it triple, the body's immune system will also be strong. The basis of psychological resilience is the heart that realizes its compassion. Compassion is one of the basic virtues that nourish mental health and psychological well-being. A person who approaches himself, the environment and nature with compassion gets along better with himself, his environment and nature and lives a satisfying life.
Compassion is the healing of the soul. We must try to decipher the language of the soul. We need to choose goodness to strengthen our compassion and psychological strength.
What makes all the virtues we have meaningful is the presence of compassion in them. There is compassion in all emotions in our lives. Compassion is a feeling that we are born with and that gets stronger with what we add to it as we get older on the path of life. If we do not nurture the compassion inherent in our creation and are deprived of compassion, our soul will lose its vitality. The soul that loses its vitality cannot fully do justice to life, cannot be satisfied in human relationships, and stays away from the sources of healing that exist for itself.
A person should return to his heart, should not stay away from himself, should know and love himself. People don't love, care about, or invest in someone they don't know. The basis of psychological capital is self-knowledge, which is as important as compassion. At the end of the road, we will first give account to ourselves for the life we have lived and the lives we have made, and the good or bad traces we have left.
Man should experience life with his own eyes and mind. Not to be seen; One must live to see, to be the reaching hand.
The function of compassion is vital in preventing the brain and heart from hardening in human life.
Compassion is the mind and fuel of the heart. If the heart loses its compassion, it becomes blind. Where the seeing eyes are not blind, the heart in the chest may become blind. We need to invest in our sense of compassion so that the heart does not become blind, hardened and lack peace. Compassion makes our lives and everything we touch beautiful.
A PERSON'S LACK OF COMPASSION TO THEMSELVES
A person must first know how to have mercy on himself. But we see that man shows the sharpest cruelty to himself. Having compassion for yourself means treating yourself with understanding. When scored out of ten, give two points to the other's mistake and tolerate it. while working; When a person makes the same mistake himself, he can be seriously cruel to himself, giving eight or nine points out of ten.
It is necessary to love yourself, get along well with yourself and have mercy on yourself, both in good times and bad times.
It is meaningful and valuable for a person to be compassionate towards himself. A person who does not have compassion for himself will not have sufficient or genuine compassion for others.
COMMERCY FOR OTHERS
A person with a compassionate heart; He looks at nature, living things, and the universe, from the ant on the ground to the bird in the sky, with compassion at all times and places, with compassion.
A compassionate person hears the cries of those outside himself, that is, those who are not from his neighborhood, and does something with his own consent. whether...or.
He feeds your soul with every step he takes with mercy and heals your soul. Even though he is apparently helping the other; Every step he takes with his compassion is the healing of his own soul.
Societies also have mercy. Every compassionate individual is a compassionate society builder. One of the greatest virtues in preventing societies' contradictions or cruelties is compassion.
Can a disease arise from compassion?
Every living thing that comes to the world is created with the seeds of compassion in its heart. Some of us noticed these seeds and grew them with love, while some of us failed to realize the existence of these seeds and faded their impact. But I would like to mention one detail so that no one falls into despair. Just as a wilting flower becomes greener after a while as a result of selfless treatment, a person's compassion will come to life when he invests in his compassion.
I would like all our readers who read these lines to make a decision today and banish the idea of "disease arises from compassion" from their minds as much as they can, and even decide to destroy this belief.
A disease does not arise from compassion. Let's not forget that if a disease arises, it will arise not from the mercy we show, but from the lack of mercy of the other person. A merciless heart is the killer of goodness.
The heart symbolizes the spiritual center within us, there is mercy and goodness in the creation of the heart. Persistence in bad behavior darkens the heart,
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