Pipe Smoking for Compassion

[mso489]

Sometimes when a person needs company but not conversation, if they can tolerate a pipe, it is a good way to spend time together in quiet, like after someone has been upset by a life situation or is in grieving. I can see a pipe/compassion connection there. Actually, the room note, if pleasant to the other person, might accentuate the presence and enhance the quality of quiet. Maybe? It might reassure the other person that you are content and present.

 

[Charlie718]

Nope haven’t gained any compassion from smoking a pipe. Any pipe time I’ve used to think why people do the things they do has caused me to loose compassion lol. I stopped trying to figure out the reason for some people’s actions a long time ago and I don’t regret it. It also goes against my favorite saying:
I looked up sympathy in the dictionary and it sat between the words sh!t and syphilis and I found it to be about as useful as them.

 

[Charlie718]

All jokes aside I can give sympathy to others but it burns me to no end to receive it or just makes me depressed lol.

 

[bullet08]

Com'on. Think! Good number of the members are thinking.. "I'll wait till I'm finished with this bowl before kicking that ass." Then after the 2/3 bowl.. "maybe he's an asshole, but he deserves to keep his teeth." If that's not compassion, I don't know what it is!

 

[Charlie718]

@bullet08 good point. Kind of like when your trying to enjoy a smoke and someone wants to prattle on, you wanna say SFU to them but they aren’t worth the interruption to your smoke so you let the prattle go in one ear and out the other lol.

 

[saltedplug]

The pipe was integral to American Indian spirituality and a way to create unity. The rising smoke was a metaphor for spirit ascending. Pipe smoking was sacred. It doesn't really matter what you do but instead the intention with which you do it. Of course pipe smoking could be used to generate compassion. If that's your attention pray for compassion while you do it.

 

[Corcoran-Rooney]

The pipe was integral to American Indian spirituality and a way to create unity. The rising smoke was a metaphor for spirit ascending. Pipe smoking was sacred. It doesn't really matter what you do but instead the intention with which you do it. Of course pipe smoking could be used to generate compassion. If that's your attention pray for compassion while you do it.

Just what I was going to say, or something very close to it. Indigenous tribes would collectively smoke tobacco after signing peace, and other treatese. Of course by the time the Europeans adapt the habit, they make it a distinctily individualistic endeavour, as they are wont to do. The fact that so many find the idea of finding compassion through tobacco laughable, shows we all very much stand in the tradition of the latter, and are perhaps totally oblivious to the original uses of tobacco

 

[jpberg]

Just what I was going to say, or something very close to it. Indigenous tribes would collectively smoke tobacco after signing peace, and other treatese. Of course by the time the Europeans adapt the habit, they make it a distinctily individualistic endeavour, as they are wont to do. The fact that so many find the idea of finding compassion through tobacco laughable, shows we all very much stand in the tradition of the latter, and are perhaps totally oblivious to the original uses of tobacco

But I don’t see the tie to compassion.

 

[ssjones]

The trick is staying off social media

I find social media helps me unleash the ashhole, that I won't do elsewhere. Keeps me in check here and in other forums.

 

[JOHN72]

For me, smoking a good tobacco, It's a huge pleasure. A tradition that should be the protected heritage................?

 

[puff_not_snuff]

Can too much compassion give you psychological tongue bite?

 

[Corcoran-Rooney]

But I don’t see the tie to compassion.

I would say that taking part in collective experiences enhances empathy, and in turn compassion. That's not to say that sitting in one's room smoking a pipe alone will lead to enhanced compassion, but given the origins of tobacco, the suggestion that it may, whilst misguided, is not entirely without merit.

 

[Charlie718]

I’d say it was less the tobacco and more the coming together to share it, same kind of connection can be had from drink or food.

 

[RookieGuy]

Sometimes when a person needs company but not conversation, if they can tolerate a pipe, it is a good way to spend time together in quiet, like after someone has been upset by a life situation or is in grieving. I can see a pipe/compassion connection there. Actually, the room note, if pleasant to the other person, might accentuate the presence and enhance the quality of quiet. Maybe? It might reassure the other person that you are content and present.

In my family, it was the smell of coffee in the room. I can see the room note of tobacco being good though.