Why Relationships Stop…

Why do relationships stop … and stay stopped?
Why can’t we put them right?

Is it the projection of our ‘product’, our mindset that others pick up? And why can no amount of effort put it right? We judge others to be not our type, and once that happens, we never want a relationship. It’s all based on the three poisons of I like, I dislike and I am indifferent.

This is exactly the opposite to the Dharma. The Dharma is pure seeing the obscurations and judgements in our own mind, not others. It’s what the Dharma is supposed to be but, in practice it isn’t. We all hang back. Why? It is the age of conflict and the degeneration of the Dharma, where we adhere to the form – the words, the rituals, the ideas – rather than actually having compassionate understanding.

No empathy, no compassion, no Dharma.
Know empathy, know compassion, know Dharma.

It isn’t words that changes us; it is the power of empathetic compassion that turns self-interest into wisdom, the deep appreciation of the true essence of all beings. When we are quick to shun others, we see them as an enemy, and we have lost the pure view.