Mindfulness Message: Compassionate Communication For Effective Interpersonal Relationship
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Abstract
In this article, the writer points out the impact of mindfulness message in the compassionate communication for effective interpersonal relationship, which is a message of
loving-kindness, understanding, unbiased, non-judgmental and unprejudiced interpretation.
Moreover, it also contains wise attention to the audiences in order to make them
happy without any suffering or sorrow. The writer has named this message as “Mindfulness
The message” which penetrates with the Dhamma Teachings of the Buddha as its main focus and
framework on the Four Divine States of Mind by applying Yonisomanasikāra, Subhàsitavàcà
(well-spoken speech) with Kālāmasutta.
The result shows that the compassionate communication process is a non-separated
phenomenon. The technique suggested here is a mindfulness message with loving-kindness,
compassion, sympathetic joy and equanimity or contemplation of Brahmavihāras – as being
called in this article as “Mindfulness Message”. An individual can practice and train oneself
by radiating into six directions from an inner self then moves on to another who are the good,
neutral, difficult ones, then, the four equally and gradually to the entire universe. It eventually
creates the atmospheric absorption of benevolence, compassion, and communion in the world.
By following this concept, people can communicate non-violently with more understanding
and human beings can live happily together with both inner peace and outer peace.
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