Great Compassion
From the New Meditation Handbook by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
The Great Scope : Great Compassion
Great compassion is a mind that sincerely wishes to liberate all living beings from suffering. If, on the basis of cherishing all living beings, we contemplate their physical suffering and mental pain, their inability to fulfill their wishes, their lack of freedom, and how by engaging in negative actions they sow seeds for future suffering, we will develop deep compassion for them. We need to empathize with them and feel their pain as intensely as we feel our own.
No one actually wants to suffer - living beings create the causes of suffering because they are controlled by their delusions. Therefore we should feel equal compassion for all living beings - for those who are creating the causes of suffering, as much as for those who are already suffering the consequences of their unskillful actions. There is not a single living being who is not a suitable object of our compassion.
The Great Scope : Great Compassion
Great compassion is a mind that sincerely wishes to liberate all living beings from suffering. If, on the basis of cherishing all living beings, we contemplate their physical suffering and mental pain, their inability to fulfill their wishes, their lack of freedom, and how by engaging in negative actions they sow seeds for future suffering, we will develop deep compassion for them. We need to empathize with them and feel their pain as intensely as we feel our own.
No one actually wants to suffer - living beings create the causes of suffering because they are controlled by their delusions. Therefore we should feel equal compassion for all living beings - for those who are creating the causes of suffering, as much as for those who are already suffering the consequences of their unskillful actions. There is not a single living being who is not a suitable object of our compassion.
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