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Recieved: 2000/12/17 06:17
Subject: Re: [K-list] Sensitive to Whom?
From: Christopher Wynter

On 2000/12/17 06:17, Christopher Wynter posted thus to the K-list:

At 11:53 PM 17/12/00, you wrote:
>KNOWING THINE SELF is the KEY to EMPATHY.

There is one line I would add to this ..

Accepting "thine" own self - unconditionally ...

and until this is achieved within self
nothing is empathy ..

we are like a sponge soaking up the vibrations of those
around us .. and when we are not taking on everyone else's
sh*t, we are reacting from our own inner wounds

so what most call empathy is, in fact sympathy.

Empathy is, in essence, the experience of the state
of another

WITHOUT

any emotional response.

If you feel emotion in response to or in relationship with
another, then this is a reaction .. and is not empathy.

True empathy comes only from non judgmental understanding
of the heart ..

and this is not the love that is written of ...

Patenjali defines empathy in the Yoga Sutras when he talks about
the state of consciousness where one has purified the self
sufficiently to "be able to enter the body of another" .. to be able to
"know" the experience of another ...

CW


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