Compassion and Karuna.

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I have become a fan of compassion and,

I can see how so many problems in our

personal, family, group as well as in

the global life are simply caused by

our lack of compassion.

 

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Love and compassion are necessities,

not luxuries. Without them humanity

cannot survive.

Dalai Lama

 

 

http://hhdl.dharmakara.net/hhdlspeech.html

 

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/d/dalai_lama.html

 

 

 

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Compassion is roughly a translation of

the Pali/Sanskrit/Hindi/Indian word. . . Karuna.

But, I noticed that I understand

compassion and karuna as two quite

different things.

 

To me, compassion has meant fully

accepting 'other's right to exist',

fully accepting 'other's right to exist

as he/she is', fully accepting other's

right to 'behave, act, speak and feel

the way she/he does'.

 

 

Whereas, Karuna, to me, means

something 'Godly'. It is looking at

everything as if they were our children.

It is looking at everything with Loving

Care and nurture. Karuna values, loves,

appreciates and lovingly acknowledges

everything it sees. It looks at them

with the eyes of a benevolent

parent. . . and, it knows its

lovely, god gifted, precious children

are doing the best they

can do given their current level of

growth, understanding, knowledge,

maturity and evolution.

 

 

Given that, blame automatically goes

away, violence, hatred, resentment

automatically instantly dissapears. . .

and, what remains is a Loving Care for the

current and future well being of the lovely,

growing children of God.