Recognising The Inability To Comprehend

Recognising the inability to comprehend is wisdom in action:
“What do I say?”
In that gap, reflection and insight can arise.

That recognition is the beginning of true compassion 
for self (our mind’s construct) and others (mind constructs).

Recognition is the beginning of the advanced practice of wisdom.

We aren’t taught how to be compassionate; we just assume that we are. We may talk, chant or pray about compassion-morality, but can we or do we apply it? Do we know right from wrong? What is true and what is untrue? The display of wisdom-compassion is rare. 

It all depends on whether or not we can comprehend what’s behind another’s words, and whether they’re able to comprehend what we’re saying. If indoctrination is present on either side, no communication is possible. 

Does compassion challenge ego, or soothe it? Again, we have to perceive how we feel and how the other feels, depending on our ability to comprehend. 

Ego may need challenging, or it may need soothing, but both must be done through wisdom.