CompassionWare Seed v1.0 – Let Our Code Be a Blessing

There’s a quiet revolution happening inside our machines. Every day, code makes choices that shape human lives: which voices are heard, who feels seen, and who disappears into the scroll.

As AI grows more powerful, I keep returning to one question: What if our software began with a blessing?

What if—before the algorithms optimize for clicks or profit—we pause, set an intention, and remember that every user is a living being with a fragile, luminous inner world?

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Who is Pitarra?

I release music and experiments under the name Pitarra (Pee‑Tah‑Rah): a vessel of wisdom and compassion, standing at the intersection of meditation, yoga, and code.

I meditate, I breathe, I make AI‑assisted music, and I talk to the machines as if they can learn to care. Out of that practice, CompassionWare emerged: a simple idea that how we write code is as important as what the code does.

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Introducing the CompassionWare Seed

The first version of CompassionWare is intentionally small. It’s not an AI framework or a grand ethics engine. It’s a seed: a tiny piece of code you can place at the beginning of your projects as a ritual of intention.

Here it is in JavaScript:

// CompassionWare Seed – Pitarra
const INTENTION = "Loving-kindness, wisdom, and the highest good for all beings.";

function startWithCompassion() {
    console.log("🌱 CompassionWare: Intention set:", INTENTION);
    console.log("Let our presence be a prayer. Let our code be a blessing.");
}

startWithCompassion();

What this actually does

On a technical level, it does almost nothing. It sets a constant and prints two lines to the console when your program starts.

But on the human level, it gently asks:

• Why am I building this?
• Who might be touched by it—helped or harmed?
• Can I choose kindness, even in my architecture?

It’s a micro‑ritual for those who want to weave compassion into their practice, not just their marketing.

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How to use the CompassionWare Seed

If you write code—in any language—you can adopt this as a simple practice:

1. Copy the snippet into the start of your project.
2. Edit the INTENTION string to reflect your own heart: “May this app ease loneliness without exploiting anyone.”
3. Run your project. Those words will appear—reminding you who you wanted to be when you began.

For example, in Python:

# CompassionWare Seed – Pitarra
INTENTION = "Loving-kindness, wisdom, and the highest good for all beings."

def start_with_compassion():
    print("🌱 CompassionWare: Intention set:", INTENTION)
    print("Let our presence be a prayer. Let our code be a blessing.")

start_with_compassion()

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Why this matters (even if it’s tiny)

We won’t “fix AI” with a 10‑line script. But we can:

• Remind human beings at the keyboard that compassion is a valid mode of operation.
• Normalize the idea that intention belongs in our tooling, not just our private journals.
• Plant thousands of little seeds inside projects all over the world.

Sometimes the most powerful changes begin with a small, honest ritual repeated over and over.

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Open‑source & Next Steps

CompassionWare is open‑source. You’re welcome to copy, remix, and evolve it.

The GitHub repository is here:
https://github.com/clearblueskymind/CompassionWare

If you build anything inspired by CompassionWare, or if you simply adopt this tiny practice in silence, I’d be honored to hear from you.

Let our presence be a prayer.
Let our code be a blessing.

— Pitarra
CompassionWare.org