Survival of The Kindest

Following many reports on global warming, the increasing oil price, the corporate crash, the unended bombs of terorrist, political murders that are not only happen in developing country like Pakistan but also in US, many start to doubt whether human can survive long enough in this planet. Some even beginning to imagine about the threatening existence of human civilization. 0il supply decrease significantly, and at the same time a half of natural resources that previously used as food are being processed as oil.


This increasing uncertainty then stimulate many stress, depression that makes life even worse. As taught clearly by hystory, variety of things happen in the past. But many innovations and creativities have helped us went out of many dark tunnels. For this reason, this might be the right time to contemplate much deeper about life creativity. It is like raining season, we can not fully controle the rain, but we can prepare for the umbrella.

The biology of compassion
Many findings have been published in the west that those people who used the words “l, me, mine” far more often than most people are riskier to heart attack. This is a very good material of contemplation, in which health is not just related with physical behaviour, but also related with psychological and spiritual behaviour. Friends who are expert in psycholinguistic will agree that our chosen words reflect our psychological condition.

In the light of this understanding, it is good to our health if we begin to learn wisely in choosing words to speak. Borrowing the argument of David Bohm in his work “Health and The Implicate Order”, the word health is originated from the word whole. It means anyone who wanting healthy life is recommended to learn of seeing life more holistically. It is like the network of spider, any thing that we think, speak and do will return to us.

Since compassion means spontanous feeling of connection with all beings, then compassion helps us to create a healthy and holistic life. For that reason, the external life can be more uncertain in the future, but it will give less negative impact if we learn to see it with the eyes of compassion.

Look at those people who are full of anger and jealousy. They suffer very much, because in the grip of anger and jealousy everything and everyone become enemy. They do not need our anger, they starve of our compassion. If we can help, it would be good, if not at least do not harm and learn to see compassionately. As a result of it, you can experience in your personal life what a guru called biology of compassion. The biological side of life is getting better because we begin to practise compassionate life.

Everything is in our side
As experienced by many wise people, in the guide of compassion, everything and everyone become friend. When all is friend, then life is a very strong network of compassion where all is kind to all. The analogy is like leg that is hurted by stone, eventhough hand is not a leg, but autamatically hand will help. This is the survival of the kindest.

In the wise words of a holy teacher, the best form of security we can offer ourselves is to develop an open heart. Like samurai whose weapon is sword, meditator’s swords are awareness and compassion.

Read carefully how the wise develop their own awareness and compassion: “The thought manifests as the word, the word manifess as the deed. The deed develop into habit, and the habit harden into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care, and let it springs from love. Born out of concern for all beings. The shadow follows the body and never leaves it. In the same way, as we think, so we become”.

Those who have practised long and hard enough, lightening the darkness of anger with compassion in everyday’s life, will undestand that the very basic of our survival is the strong trust that the only reason why we are here is to help each other. That is survival of the kindest, simply means that only the kind who will enjoy long survival in this planet. Particularly because with kindness we are all well connected. Everything is in our side. As a consequence, no matter what happen outside, life keeps growing.

Back to story of the threatening life of human being in this planet, the external challenges might be getting worse, but we can survive together by living compassionately.