[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]I have read about the concept in the past, just didn't recognize the official phrase. If I understand it correctly, it's the idea of recognizing both the positives and negatives in oneself and others with compassion, simply observing and attempting to understand them, and allowing them to organically resolve into a new, unified wholeness.
I remember reading about how everyone thinks they are doing "good" when they pursue a certain course (even if it has objectively evil results), and it's important to understand just how they/we perceive/define that "good" and why. As in language, it's critical to define one's terms and not make assumptions about what they mean to others.
The same is also true for dealing with the negatives in oneself. Get to the root of them, define them, and there's generally fear of some kind, which can often be transformed through understanding and compassion: the alchemy of turning lead (fear/anger/hate) to gold (love/karuna).
I understand it intellectually, but am not advanced enough spiritually to automatically react compassionately to negatives in others or in myself. My first instinct is still to react defensively, pushing away the person (or part of myself) that I find unlikeable, and I'll work on that.
Thanks for the reminder! I had forgotten a lot of this.
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