5.2 Don't Save, Just Be Stable: Compassion Is the Presence of No‑Mind

5.2 Don't Save, Just Be Stable: Compassion Is the Presence of No‑Mind

【Embodied Practice】
Imagine a loved one experiencing deep grief or rage. The ordinary reaction is to reason with them or try to "fix" them. This is actually pushing their pain away---an intervention of "mind at work."

【The Function of the Deep Sea】
True compassion is to exist as a "stable presence." Simply sit beside them like a mountain, or receive all their emotional storms like the ocean. You are neither swept away nor attempt to change them.

When you are sufficiently stable, their turbulent heart will naturally find its calibration. You need not say a word; your "unmovingness" itself is the highest reverence for their inherent perfection---this "unmovingness" is precisely the suchness of No‑Mind.

Closing of Chapter
Dismantling the wall of "I" does not mean the world floods in to drown you; it is the discovery that you have always been the space containing the world.

True compassion has no giver and no receiver; it is the innate connectedness, unmoving, that remains when boundaries dissolve.

You cannot "give" peace; you can only be peace. And when you are peace, all things find their rest within you.

All this arises spontaneously only in No‑Mind.