Miracles of Compassion

 Increasingly complicated world. This is the portrait of our age. Advances in science and technology has not managed to make the complexity of the problems in all areas. In contrast, in most areas life appear to be more complicated. As happened many times in history, in the mids of scarcity of solution people usually look for miracle. Most people think, the magic comes from the sky, forgetting the fact that the most touching miracle comes from the inner heart in the form of compassion.

Healing

The first miracle of compassion appears in the form of healing energy. Formerly, story that compassion heals can only be heard in spiritual world. Now, abundant research that support these findings. One of the most frequently cited research in this regard, the two groups of students were asked to watch two different movies. Both saliva were taken before and after watching the film to see the immune effect. The result is very touching, the immune system of students who watch movies of Mother Teresa much better than the one who watch the regular movie.

A number of Tibetan yogi put in an MRI machine, then asked to meditate on compassion. The results are so evident, the neural movement of the brain in the area of healing ascending drastically. There is a story of a close friend who can be trusted entirely. Using his own body he checks the truth that compassion heals. When practicing silent meditation, he lets a lot of mosquitoes – mostly black and white mosquitoes that are often referred to as a source of dengue fever – to drink his blood. Of course it was done in the spirit of compassion. As a result, the physical body naturally red here and there. But after many years, there was no sign that  he was infected by dengue fever.

List of examples and research can be extended of course. But amid the high price of drugs, hospital cost is unaffordable to many people, the poor is not yet touched by government aid, it is worth pondering for protecting the health of the body with compassion in action.

Peace

The second miracle of compassion is peace. One of the peaceful meditation teacher once named Ramana Maharhsi. Many times his students found, near his place of meditation or teaching, not only human being who was peaceful,  even wild animals like snakes were peaceful. Nelson Mandela is another example. He was not only felt peace by friends and family, the same thing also happened to his enemies. Jalalludin Rumi was one of the peaceful Sufi figures. Serenity vibration felt even far outside the Muslim community, beyond the time of his life in the fourteenth century. These three holy figures were born in different religion. But all the three have one thing in common, namely a heart filled with love, kindness and compassion.

To put it simply, this can be explained by the logic of two people who meet dog. The first person has a compassionate heart and less fear to the dog as a consequence. The second one is an ordinary man and has more fear to the dog. After passing in front of the dog, the dog only barking to the second. This could happen due to excessive fear makes human body produces adrenaline. And adrenaline were smelt by a dog then make it barking.

The beauty of deep compassion, not only make the human body does not produce adrenaline, is also a bridge to the experience of oneness. At the level of unity, small self (body, feeling, perception, mental formations, dualistic mind) melting then merges with the Supreme Self. At this level, nothing left but peace.

Perfection

Peace of mind coupled with compassionate heart then lead one to the third level of miracle which is perfection. At the level of healing and peace many logic and research are available as explanatory materials. At the level of perfection, the destiny of  language and logic is like a ladder which is not high enough to touch perfection. That is why, the saint who arrived here all dressed up in poetic language.

One of the holy master ever whispered like this: “At the beginning it was  joy. In the middle it is joy. At the end there will be only joy”. At the level of perfection, all seen and treated with joy then finally life has no face other than joy. The difference, joy at the perfection stage is the mother of a beautiful baby named touching compassion. Hence, one of the meaning of  holy book is a crying for compassion.

In other words, holy book was born out of a deep longing for compassion. It was like a mother’s longing for her children, as well as come up here with hugging hands to cool and to save. That is why, in many tradition holy books to be honored like honoring  a mother.

Owners of the Future

Back to the beginning to the story of the growing complexities everywhere, one of the dominant reason is leaderless world. It is difficult to deny, this age greatly admire Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa, His Holiness the Dalai Lama. And the similarities of these public figures is compassionate heart. In-depth study of leadership, have long found that the essence of leadership lies in the ability to “influence”. And the ability to influence is determined by how beautiful one decorate the heart with love, kindness and compassion. These compassionate heart will be the owner of the future.