His Holiness the Dalai Lama says in Widening the Circle of Love: "The greatness of Tibetan culture lies in the detail of its teachings on how to cultivate love and compassion." This compilation explores some fundamentals of compassion and its relevance to our daily lives and relationships.
All of us have compassion to a certain extent—whenever we think of someone hit by tragedy, we feel moved. However, through training our mind we can expand this basic compassion into something infinitely vaster. Compassion combines both empathy and reason. The more we cultivate deeper insight into the nature of suffering and the true nature of things, the deeper and more powerful our compassion becomes.