Isaiah 63:9 · World English Bible
In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them. In his love and in his pity he redeemed them. He bore them, and carried them all the days of old.
Karuṇā: Compassion The heart that trembles with another's pain as if it were its own. In all their affliction he was afflicted draws it to the line: the sufferer's ache passing straight into the one who would help.
From the Buddhism reading below.
The same verse, read by 2 traditions.
BUDDHISM
Karuṇā: Compassion
The heart that trembles with another's pain as if it were its own. In all their affliction he was afflicted draws it to the line: the sufferer's ache passing straight into the one who would help. A mother who feels the fever in her own body when the child burns.
Mettā: Loving-kindness
The steady wish that another be well and at ease. In his love and in his pity he redeemed them, a warmth that stays close through the trouble instead of flinching from it. A fire kept burning all night so the room around it stays warm.
Anukampā: Being moved to act
The stir of pity that bends down to lift. He bare them and carried them, the feeling turned into arms under the load. Aching for the fallen means nothing until you crouch and take the weight.
Saraṇa: Refuge
The safe place a weary being leans into. Carried all the days of old, they are not asked to walk the long road on their own strength. A child asleep on the shoulder feels the miles without walking one.
SUFISM
A parent carrying a feverish child feels the heat as if in their own body; there are not two sufferings but one, shared across two hearts. So in all their affliction He was afflicted, wounded in the wound of the loved. This heals the lonely thought that pain means abandonment, that trouble proves no one is near.
The cure is remembrance, to recall in the hard hour how one was carried before and lean back into it now. God is present inside the affliction, not past it, and the One who bore them of old has not set them down.
Buddhism lens
When did someone last take real weight off you, and who could you do that for this week?
He reminded himself that people are made for one another, and that helping is not a favor done at a distance but the natural motion of one limb toward another. The feeling is only finished when the hands move.
The tradition does not ask you to explain someone's suffering, it asks you to go and sit with them and let them speak first. Presence is the help, and the words are optional.
The reed flute at the opening of the Masnavi can only be heard by someone who has also been torn from the reed bed. Only the one who carries the same wound can take any of its weight.
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