"Dick Sutphen's Metaphysical World" airs on www.contacttalkradio.com 11 AM--12 Noon every Wednesday. Listen live or download an archive show. iTunes will download it into your computer or iPod. Next week’s show is announced at the end of this column, followed by the Sutphen Seminars Summer and Fall Schedule.

Compassion

Charlotte Joko Beck teaches at the Zen Center in San Diego, CA. In her book “Nothing Special, Living Zen” she interacts with her students. The following is an excerpt:

JOKO: . . . If we’re truly listening with compassion to another person, we may not feel much of anything; we simply listen and act appropriately. We confuse compassion with love. Compassion can contain love, which may be an emotion, but compassion is not itself an emotion. In true compassion there is no separation, which means there are no self-centered thoughts between me and whomever I’m with. No separation is compassion.

STUDENT: The dictionary definition of empathy is to feel what another is feeling. That doesn’t necessarily mean reacting to what they’re feeling, or sympathizing. Compassion means being with their experience, but not being in it.

JOKO: One who is truly compassionate never gives it a thought. It’s simply absolutely natural. It’s not a result of trying to be compassionate. Trying to be compassionate is like trying to be spontaneous. We either are, or we aren’t. If we’re not, we can be sure that we’re caught in a self-centered dream of some sort. When we’re caught in our thoughts, we won’t be compassionate. So all of practice is to investigate the self-centered dream which we like so well. If we’re not caught in that, we’ll be compassionate.

STUDENT: Are love and compassion the same thing?

JOKO: Sometimes love has an emotional connotation for short periods. Truly loving somebody doesn’t mean we feel emotional about them, however. We can love our children and wish they’d wipe their feet off before coming into the house. Being irritated that they won’t wipe their feet is an emotion, but the underlying love is not. The love for one’s children remains steady.

In the case of romantic love, there’s nearly always an element of need, a thought that we’re going to get something out of it. “I’m so excited to be with you.” ‘I get such a good feeling when I’m around you.” “You make me so happy.” “I feel whole when I’m with you.” “You meet all my needs.” When something happens to destroy our fantasy, the words change: “I really hate him! I don’t know what I ever saw in him.”

In fact, nobody makes us happy or sad; we do that to ourselves. Romantic love is full of illusions; genuine love, or compassion, has no illusions. It is simply who we are.

(end of excerpt).

The back cover of this book says it is “A Zen Center Weekend In A Book.” True. And what an enlightening weekend it is.

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UPCOMING RADIO SHOW: May 30 -- “Live from London.” Dick will talk about any new trends he sees at the Body Mind Spirit Festival and report on his experiences. Carol Morgan Ph.D. will sit in the sidekick chair, interacting with him from the states.

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PRIVATE SESSIONS: Dick is available for Private Sessions in Westlake Village, CA (Los Angeles area). Also a limited number of appointments while on the road. Upcoming: Scottsdale, AZ and Sedona, AZ, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, New Orleans, LA, Denver, CO, Danbury, Conn, Lily Dale, NY, and Seattle, WA.

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2007 SUTPHEN SEMINARS &
SPONSORED APPEARANCES:

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Tara Sutphen: “2-Day Mystic Training In Sedona”-- July 14-15, Nov. 3-4. More info at the following: http://www.dicksutphen.com/html/mysticsem.html

May 4-6: SPIRIT CONTACT IN SEDONA: Spirit-Contact Therapy -- an exploration of all the concepts. You’ll experience direct contact with your Spirit Guide, support guides, angels, teachers, deceased loved ones, etc. Conducted by Dick Sutphen. Will include demonstration sessions, in addition to numerous group sessions on subjects such as Soul Retrieval, Entity Associations, Parallel Lives, Psychic Protection, and more. Full details, click on the following: http://www.dicksutphen.com/html/spiritcontact.html

May 17-22: IACT & IMDHA CONFERENCE in Miami, FL. Dick teaches a two-day post-conference workshop on “ALTERNATIVE HYPNOSIS-BASED THERAPIES,” May 21-22. During the event, he will also present a 3-Hour “SOUL AGREEMENTS” Workshop and participate in an “Integration of Selves” panel discussion. www.iact.org  & www.imdha.com

May 23-28: MIND BODY SPIRIT FESTIVAL, in London, England. Dick will conduct two, four-hour workshops (“The Shift” and “Spirit-Contact Therapy”). www.mindbodyspirit.co.uk   On May 24, he will appear LBC Radio for an hour beginning at 10:30 PM UK time.

June 11-17: FLIGHT-TO-FREEDOM RETREAT -- A 7-Day Adventure in Lake Arrowhead, CA, conducted by Dick & Tara Sutphen. Limited to 14 people with lodging and most meals included. Come to a beautiful home in the mountains and free your spirit. For one week, a few people will work closely with Dick and Tara to explore their earthly destiny while also releasing blocks, purging the past and pursuing personal liberation. Includes a psychic/astrology reading with Tara and a private regression/spirit-contact session with Dick. $1895. This is a unique opportunity. Full details, click on the following: http://www.dicksutphen.com/html/ftfreedom.html

June 23-30: A special “8-DAY, 100-HOUR PROFESSIONAL HYPNOTIST TRAINING in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. Dick and Shannon Feather co-training. Participants receive 100 hours of training for three professional certifications: Hypnotist Certification, Master Hypnotist Certification, Past-Life Therapist Certification plus, Membership in the International Hypnosis Federation. CEU credits. Includes Shannon’s general Hypnosis Training, and Dick’s Past-Life and Spirit Contact TherapyÒ Training. This is all the training you will need to start a new career or add hypnosis to an existing career. Full details, click on the following: http://www.dicksutphen.com/html/flohypno.html

July 14-15: HYPNOSIS CONFERENCE, New Orleans. Dick and Patti Conklin will present a three-hour workshop. www.infinityhypnosis.net

July 28-29: ULTIMATE PAST-LIFE WEEKEND, 2 days in Lily Dale, NY, sponsored by Fellowships of the Spirit. www.fellowshipsspirit.org

Aug. 9-14: NATIONAL GUILD OF HYPNOTISTS CONFERENCE, in Marlborough, MA. Dick will conduct a one-day “Marketing & Promotion” Seminar on Aug. 9, two talks over the weekend, and a two-day post-conference “Master of Life Metaphysical Counselor Training, Aug. 13-14. www.ngh.net

Aug. 24-26: The ULTIMATE “SHIFT” SEMINAR IN SEDONA: The “Shift” (two people attend for the price of one) -- Life as we know it is about to end. Three days of exploring the forthcoming shift and transcended levels of consciousness ... and everything related to it. Full details, click on the following: http://www.dicksutphen.com/html/shiftsem.html

Aug. 31-Sept. 2: THE CELEBRATION FAIR, in Denver, CO. Dick will headline the event and conduct a workshop on both days. More info: fair@celebrationfair.com

Sept. 15-16: 2-DAY HEALING SEMINAR conducted by Dick Sutphen and Patti Conklin. For the sixth time Dick & Patti will co-train a powerful healing seminar. Patti removes emotional energetic blockages of your life which have created physical dis-ease or illness. Full details, click on the following: http://www.dicksutphen.com/html/healsem.html

Sept. 28-30: THREE DAYS @ LEARNING LIGHT CENTER in Anaheim, CA. Program to be announced. www.LearningLight.org

Oct. 6-7: TWO-DAY DICK SUTPHEN SEMINAR in Redmond, WA at the Maitreya Educational Foundation.

October 12-14 -- IARRT, the International Association for Regression Research & Therapies Inc., in Danbury, Conn. Dick will present at the opening ceremonies. More info www.iarrt.org

Oct. 26-28: The SEDONA PSYCHIC SEMINAR Conducted by Dick & Tara Sutphen. Our all-time most popular seminar. Learn how psychic you can be. Full details, click on the following: http://www.dicksutphen.com/html/sedona_psychic.html

Nov. 5-9: Dick Sutphen’s classic 5-Day PROFESSIONAL HYPNOSIS CERTIFICATION TRAINING. Los Angeles area. Full details, click on the following: http://www.dicksutphen.com/html/hyptrain.html

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