Therefore be merciful, even as your Father is also merciful.

Therefore be merciful, even as your Father is also merciful.

Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.

Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.

But compassion, the generation of compassion, actually mobilizes our immunity.

And if compassion is so good for us, why don't we vote on compassion?

The Quality of Mercy

So, compassion means to feel the feelings of others, and the human being actually is compassion.

Compassion has many faces.

It helps him when he is overwhelmed with grief and despair.

I want to address the issue of compassion.

So we can ask What is compassion comprised of?

That compassion is actually an inherent human quality.

And that woman did not have sentimental compassion.

And they have actualized compassion through direct action.

All these three things, then, have to be melded together.

We asked meditators, who have been doing that for years and years and years, to put their mind in a state where there's nothing but loving kindness, total availability to sentient being.

If compassion is so good for us, why don't we train our health care providers in compassion so that they can do what they're supposed to do, which is to really transform suffering?

Robert Thurman Expanding your circle of compassion

Again, the eyes and hands of Avalokiteshvara.

Why don't we train our children in compassion?

The Dalai Lama often states that compassion is his best friend.

A line that the Dalai Lama once said, he said, Love and compassion are necessities.

You know, if compassion is so good for us, I have a question.

It pairs closely with love, which is the will for the other to be happy, which requires, of course, that one feels some happiness oneself and wishes to share it.

But kindness means universal responsibility.

But the conditions for compassion to be activated, to be aroused, are particular conditions.

Now we know from neuroscience that compassion has some very extraordinary qualities.

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Don't withhold your tender mercies from me, Yahweh. Let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me.

Don't withhold your tender mercies from me, Yahweh. Let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me.

Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.

Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.

It s hard to always show compassion even to the people we love, but Robert Thurman asks that we develop compassion for our enemies. He prescribes a seven step meditation exercise to extend compassion beyond our inner circle.

And that is very important the Charter of Compassion must lead us to develop through true compassion, what is called universal responsibility.

Joan Halifax Compassion and the true meaning of empathy

And in that paralysis, of course, our capacity for compassion is also paralyzed.

Abraham was kind, compassionate, and penitent.

Abraham was kind, compassionate, and penitent.

Indeed Ibrahim is most forbearing, very soft hearted, penitent.

Indeed Ibrahim is most forbearing, very soft hearted, penitent.

Abraham was clement, compassionate, penitent.

Abraham was clement, compassionate, penitent.

Verily Ibrahim was forbearing, long suffering, penitent.

Verily Ibrahim was forbearing, long suffering, penitent.