Kind Action

As we have seen with the recent hurricanes and earthquake, the forces of nature are impersonal and impartial, even inhumane. But human souls are called to empathy, kindness, and compassion. When the small ego no longer rules one’s life, one’s action is kindness itself.

Find out how the very nature of love changes when we practice true kind action, and what the great sages compared kindness to, here:

In practicing kind action, love is no longer an obsessive mental longing or uncontrolled emotional outburst. Sympathy becomes mutual encouragement. Pity becomes the fearless act of loving. Negative emotions do not hurt people and positive emotions cannot drag them down. All these emotional attributes are purified into compassion.

When selflessness is restored through the meditation of love, action is kind and trustworthy. Through love, kind action becomes endless, inexhaustible, and unfathomable. Kind action is the very nature of a mother’s power of creative nourishment, a combination of selfless love and self-sacrifice.

As the ancient Chinese sage, Lao Tzu wrote:

He is kind to those who are kind.
He is also kind to those who are not kind.
It is the kindness of Action itself.
He is trustworthy to those who are trustworthy.
He is also trustworthy to those who are not trustworthy.
It is the trust of Action itself.

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Adapted from Secret Teachings of the Tao Te Ching, by Mantak Chia and Tao Huang (Inner Traditions, 2005). Copyright (c) 2005 by Mantak Chia and Tao Huang. Reprinted by permission of Inner Traditions.
Adapted from Secret Teachings of the Tao Te Ching, by Mantak Chia and Tao Huang (Inner Traditions, 2005).

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Rosie L.

9:52AM PST on Feb 16, 2012

great article thanks

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Carole R.

6:05PM PST on Jan 3, 2012

Nice article, sweet pic. Thanks.

Holly L.

12:12PM PDT on Nov 3, 2011

Kindness warms us all ..how lucky are we!

Teresa W.

6:18AM PDT on Jul 31, 2011

Love doesn't exist, unless you mean sex. Ugh!

Robert O.

11:30PM PDT on Jul 30, 2011

Good article. Very true. Thanks Annie!

patti n.

10:22AM PDT on Apr 1, 2011

I think true kindness comes naturally.

William F.

5:22PM PST on Feb 18, 2011

Kindness starts within you.

Carmen B.

11:05PM PST on Feb 17, 2011

Thanks for sharing; intresting!

Past Member .

11:49AM PST on Feb 1, 2011

Deep down I think kindness and love make up the silent majority, sometimes you have to dig deep to unleash it due to the input of evil in all its forms, but I choose to believe it's still there.

KS G.

1:10AM PST on Jan 31, 2011

Thanks for the article.