[Toninvell]

People really do get that twisted a lot.. love and compassion have nothing to do with people pleasing.

Say there is a person we'd really like to be able to help out. Sometimes the most helpful thing we can do is to stay out of their life.

In example, when I don't know how to stop enabling someones behavior or if all I do is become neurotic in being around somebody the best thing I can do for myself and them is to just stay away.

Then there are those times when compassion can be exactly like the title of the article; fierce.

It requires very little tolerance for bullshit to be able to really utilize the fierce aspect of compassion.

So in that regard if one is to truly live up to the application of spiritual principles in day to day life they are likely going to be walking alone most of the time as most ordinary beings want nothing to do with somebody walking a path like that because the spiritual practitioner's actions serve as a mirror for all individuals and when the person who doesn't want to look at themselves is confronted with that they have no choice but to see their conscience reflecting off the person.

Most of the time when I have utilized fierce compassion it has been through words strongly spoken, not stemming from a motivation of malevolence.. that is where it gets twisted.. people sometimes think that if one speaks in such a way it is "mean".

The strong words are not the first spoken.. it can get to a point where that is likely the only way any message will get through.

Requires one to be skillful and when it comes to situations like that it can be quite difficult to embody such means.