I am at a conference on Meditation and Psychotherapy sponsoired by Harvard Medical College in Boston.
The brain according to one of the presenters the brain is hot wired to compassion. They began to be asked about the violence and hostility.
I began to muse about the images of lion and lamb. These arch type images suggest that while there is a part of us that are hot wired to violence and anger there is another part that is hot wired to compassion.
The vicarious suffering of the lamb leads to taking on the sufferings and hurt of humanity only to transform that in the courage of the Lion that swallows up the fear of death. As CS Lewis stated "Jesus suffered not so we would not have to suffer but to teach us how to ( the role of) suffering to embrace the lamb and empower the lion.
There is a lion and a lamb in all of us/ A seed of power to destroy and a seed of the willingness ot sacrifice/. The brain is hot wired to anger and violence to protect, promote and preserve (fight flight fright) but also it is hot wired to compassion, to calmness,, and to curiosity. .
About Me
- Don Paine
- I am a pastor and a clinical psychotherapist. My life's passion is defining healthiness from a human perspective and paralleling it to the holiness of God, divine perspective. Shifting perspectives creates a paradigm that is alongside of rather than over and against. The parakalein of God and the paradoxes of humanity are redefined. Humanity is all about winning and yet we are losing ground everywhere. Divinity is all about letting go of the desire to win and the fear of loss. The Divine embraces the world with loving care regardless of anything.
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