Kalu Rinpoche | We need to practice Compassion (Part 2)

So there’s a certain things that spirituality, spiritualism and the materialism, you know, kind of race back and forth, back and forth and eventually with the base of consistency, and then your compassion outgrows your perception and the attachment to materialism, you know? So it can outgrow, there’s a simultaneous race.

Compassion however, from my personal understanding, is not a simultaneous race between the action of compassion and the practice of compassion. Compassion is always something that has to be maintained on its own and then the opposite of that race is not the compassion in action that you need to prioritize but the illusion of oneself, the illusion of the ego, the illusion of the attachment, that is the opponent race, and that has to, you have to outrun that, you have to outrun that, not in terms of “I need to reach somewhere”, but you need to understand.

Sometime that will go little bit further, sometimes your compassion practice will go little bit further, sometime self-attachment will go further. So these two will simultaneously go back and forth. But once you overwhelm the illusion of oneself, the ego, illusion of the ego, the illusion of oneself and the, and the selfishness, once you overwhelm with the speed, and the weight and the practice and the time you put in over the time and then the compassion in action is a natural reaction of what you have practiced, but not something you should be doing.

But it doesn’t mean that you don’t engage in the charitable events, it doesn’t mean that you don’t do something for the humanitarian cause, it doesn’t mean that you don’t do something like for environmental service, contributing your capacity. Doesn’t mean that, you should definitely do this. But assuming that “ah, I am compassionate, I am compassionate” that is not the right approach. Because practice of compassion is all about countering the illusion of oneself and illusion of the pride and so on, yeah.