Guest guest Posted March 16, 2009 Report Share Posted March 16, 2009 GuruRatings , " Tony OClery " <aoclery wrote: GuruRatings , ecirada <ecirada@> wrote: > > >> *Compassion:* > >> Deep awareness of the suffering of another > >> coupled with the wish to > >> relieve it. > >> > > > > Ok. This is closer to what I thought > > compassion was. Anyway, I like 'loving > > kindness' much better as it doesn't require > > me to imagine, assume or wait (?) for other > > to suffer in order to have it. I can > > easily have loving kindness for a > > man/woman/creature who is perfectly fine. > > > In texts on Buddhism, definitions of compassion emphasize > the wish to help - which makes sense for a path, dedicated to > end suffering. So compassion involves action whereas both > pity and loving-kindness aren't related to action. Namaste, Compassion is Daya or one of the components of liberation. It means not seeing a difference between yourself and anything else....In other words you are not observing them suffering but observing suffering and feeling compassion in the common non dual pain. You also are suffering for all is one. Daya is really about diluting the ego sense, so that all suffering is suffered by all beings. Whether this is illusion is by the way it is a form of sadhana or a step on the path.... --- End forwarded message --- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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