Underneath you’re just meat
Cut the head off and the meat rots
No matter how rich one is — cut the head off and it rots
No matter how attractive one is — cut the head off and it rots
No matter how virtuous one is — cut the head off and it rots
No matter how successful one is — cut the head off and it rots
Compassion cures insecurity
Everyone you see is basically rotting already
Everyone is currently enjoying a COUNTDOWN TO ROT
This much you share in common for CERTAIN
with the disgusting bum sleeping under the tree
with the bright Hollywood star
with the most successful man in the world
with the most desired women
with everyone around you and everyone you ever meet
Perhaps you share even more
Like suffering
Failure to satisfy
Frantic pursuit of satisfaction, pleasure
Compassion cures insecurity
You’re insecure because deep down you believe others are a threat to you
You want to be bigger so that they can’t harm you
Experience of insecurity is experience of doubt over one’s ability to SURVIVE in this world… let alone thrive
Well they can’t harm you when they’re rotting in the ground
Nor can they harm you when you’re fucking rotting in the ground
There’s nothing more they can take from you
They could piss on your rotting corpse — but you wouldn’t care! You couldn’t smell it, couldn’t see it, couldn’t conceive of it
Compassion cures insecurity
This is of course easier said than done
It’s because your insecurity runs so deep
So deep that you’re not even aware of it
If you were — then you wouldn’t be buying that stupid fancy car — knowing how utterly ineffectual it’s going to be at making you feel any bit more confident
Even in looking at that object of desire with any hint of craving — is already to betray yourself, give up on your power in favour of the world’s false approval
But compassion does cure insecurity
This is why SHARING with others and HELPING OTHERS and TAKING OTHERS UP — helps you and takes you up
Convincing yourself how compassionate you are is as good as convincing yourself how great you are. It fails utterly
But ACTING compassionately — GIVING, TAKING OTHERS UP, LISTENING — is what is true act of compassion, therefore the only true sign of compassion
Just like ACTING courageously — by DOING that thing which you wanted to do, DOING that right thing, irrespective of your doubts and weaknesses and strife — is what true confidence looks like
Therefore give
And besides remember that underneath all of you are just meat
So treat everyone equally
If you make a habit of treating the lowest of men well — it becomes easier to treat the highest of men NORMALLY
To view highest of men NORMALLY
Without distortions of your own insecurities and desires
It doesn’t hurt to repeat this like a mantra, superficial as it is
To see the mortal flesh of the other person
Conceive of their imminent demise
Consider all their problems, their secret and less secret suffering
Consider everything you share
Even be compassionate and understanding of their own hostility. Of course they didn’t mean it. They are scared just like you are
Finally, love
You’re all rotting tomorrow, so might as well get some love
Your failures are REALLY not so important — tomorrow you rot
But if you can love today — that is important
That is worth it