Episode 34: Exploring Kindness As A Response To Whatever Happens

Exploring Awareness

Are you noticing a lack of kindness in the conversation lately? We are all taught to be kind but thinking that you must be kind is different from “being” kind. What if kindness was an innate quality that is already a part of us? Through exploring awareness, we may discover that “loving kindness” is a core element that already exists within, no matter what other people might be saying. A place of “awake awareness” that is not affected by the challenges of daily life, but is already within for us to tap into. How to find this place starts with awareness of the breath, body, thoughts and emotions. Exploring awareness transforms the difficulties trying to be kind or dealing with unkind people into an experience of loving kindness. Through exploring awareness, we can wake up to the truth of our being and discover an innate sense of loving kindness that emanates from the core not from thoughts in the brain. As Loch Kelly expresses in the book The Way of Effortless Mindfulness “Discovery of natural loving kindness is the foundation of a new motivation for compassionate activity that is not based on external rules but comes from the direct experience of interconnection with all of life”. Call it the “ultimate truth of interconnectedness”.