Buddha Dharma Part Eleven - Compassion

Compassion is the third of the four immeasurables and it is an understanding that the world is full of suffering, and a heartfelt wish that this suffering will come to an end or at least lessen—for ourselves and others. Through compassion, the fact that everyone is suffering remains vivid in our minds. Everyone is suffering, so everyone deserves it. Keep in mind that compassion is for the person and not their behaviour. Thinking like this, we will be able to cultivate compassion for all beings.

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May all the people I met in the past, am meeting today, and will meet in the future be free from suffering and be joyful and happy. Thank you. Namaste 🤓🙏🏻

Thanks for another great talk. I thought I would find the compassion towards someone I have conflict with difficult and I found reframing my thoughts to compassion for them as a person and not how they behave helped.

Very difficult to be compassionate when I am scared of what our lives and country will be under the new evil president. My heart is heavy with fear and frustration.

This is very good if you have someone you don't get on with. I was very surprised how difficult I found it to offer compassion to a former boss, but I was able to do it in the end by remembering a couple of positive interactions.

Exercising compassion for someone who was unkind to me in the past felt liberating. I could feel that there was a part of me that wasn't hurt and never could be hurt. After that, I truly felt forgiveness for them for the first time and sincerely wished that their suffering would end.
Thank you so much for this meditation and for the idea that compassion is for a person, not for their behaviour/actions.