Blessings and welcome to the path to freedom.
This path about us waking up to who and what we are.
This path about us allowing for the peace and the love and the joy and the harmony and the abundance and the wholeness and beauty that is inherently within us and that is all around us in every single moment of every single day and month and week and year and life.
My name is Daniel Rokeo and I'm deeply grateful that you're choosing to tune in that you're choosing to participate in raising your vibration and expanding your consciousness.
So welcome welcome welcome.
The theme for today is the art and practice of compassion.
The art and practice of compassion.
And this of course has something to do with love and us being love and it has something to do with gaining an understanding of the truth that the only thing that ever is to blame is ignorance.
Because compassion can be described as the understanding of lack of understanding.
The understanding of lack of understanding.
And what this means is that as we're on this planet and we're having relationships we meet people and we interact with people and we intermingle with people and we're bound to get in the way of some of them doing something hurtful.
We're bound to experience disappointment,
We're bound to experience a sense of being a victim,
We're bound to experience a sense of being let down or whatever the case may be.
But whenever another,
And this goes for ourselves as well,
But whenever an individual acts in a hurtful or harmful way we're wise to realize that whatever they did or did not do it was not personal.
It had nothing to do with us.
But it was merely the ignorance in them.
The not knowing who and what they are.
The not knowing that they are love,
That they are peace,
That they are joy,
That they are enough.
And that there is enough for everyone.
You know that egoic mantra,
I am not enough and there is not enough.
Whenever another individual does something that is hurtful,
They are under the aegis of that mantra.
They are under the aegis of that belief that they are not enough or that there is not enough.
And it is that fear of not being enough and of running out or not having enough,
It is that fear within them that gave rise to whatever they did or whatever they did not do.
That gave rise to their reactions,
That gave rise to their actions,
Their behaviors,
What they said,
What they did not say.
It is that fear,
That ignorance of knowing who and what they are.
And so,
We are wise,
Not for their sake.
If you join me in one of these forgiveness exercises or one of these forgiveness sessions,
We have talked about how forgiveness is not ever about the other individual.
It is not ever about condoning what they did or accepting what they did or saying that it was okay.
But it is all about us releasing and letting go of the negativity that we harbor,
That we cling to,
That we hold on to.
And as we release and let that go,
We give ourselves permission to soar,
To be free.
Free to be in love and free to be in joy and free to be in harmony and wholeness.
We give ourselves permission to create an inner environment where well-being can thrive,
Where wholeness may reign supreme.
But that forgiveness can only come as we realize that whatever they did,
They did out of ignorance.
They did not understand.
Because in every single moment,
Each and every single one of us is making the very best choice that we can make.
We are doing the very best that we can.
Sometimes we are open and available for high choices.
Sometimes when our consciousness is expanded or actually when we're in our natural state,
When we have a deep and conscious connection with the truth and the essence of who and what we are,
The need to fight for our survival,
The need to compete for resources,
Or the need to enhance ourselves on behalf of another,
It dissolves.
And then there are moments when our consciousness is contracted,
When we're under the aegis of lower vibrations,
When we perhaps believe that we are limited and that we are separated and that there is not enough.
But in any given moment,
We're doing the very best we know how to do.
And this goes for all of us.
And so compassion,
The art and practice of compassion is coming back to this understanding that whatever they did or did not do,
They did the very best they knew how to do it.
And I'm not saying or advocating that we are to deny,
I mean,
If we experience hurt,
Or if we experience pain,
Or if we experience suffering,
I'm not saying to deny it,
I'm not saying to press it down or act as if nothing has happened.
I'm not saying that we're wise to embrace and allow everything.
We're wise to embrace and allow everything to be as it is.
But compassion allows us to not get hurt.
It allows us to not be in pain,
To not suffer as we rise above that,
As we rise above it.
So compassion,
The art and practice of compassion is the art and practice of understanding,
The lack of understanding in another.
And once again,
It is not about saying that what they did was okay.
It is not about condoning what they did.
But it is merely a way for us to not be pulled down into lower vibrations,
To be pulled into an egoic reaction toward what they did or did not do.
That is what compassion is all about,
That we may stay in a high vibration,
That we may remain free,
And that we may set them free.
Perhaps you've heard these four statements,
You have no power over me,
I stand in my own authority,
I set me free,
And I set you free.
That is what compassion brings,
Us,
Them,
Us taking back the power,
Standing in our own authority,
Setting ourselves free,
And giving them permission to be free,
To be who they are,
And to be where they are in any given moment.
Thank you so,
So much for joining me,
And thank you so,
So much for participating.
Thank you for being you.
Thank you for being you.
Until the next time,
I bless,
Bless,
Bless your day,
And I bless,
Bless,
Bless your way.
Namaste.
