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Compassion requires courage
Jetsün Khandro Rinpoche
Loving Kindness & Compassion, Lojong
2010

Compassion requires courage

Lerab Ling, 1 October 2010

It is crucial to the understanding of compassion to realise that it is not simply an adjective one puts on in relation to the Buddhist path of meditation, but something that requires introspection. It requires tremendous courage, contemplation, and insight into human nature—into one’s own capacities, and into the power of causes and conditions one creates, which shape one’s own life and the lives of others.

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  • Jetsün Khandro Rinpoche - 2010
  • Mahayana - Loving Kindness & Compassion, Lojong
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  • Alicia Leon - 9 months ago
    Thank you

  • Carole Chambers - 6 months ago
    May we have tgid whole teaching. Pleasee

  • Dominique Lavignon - 4 days ago
    Sometimes i feel reactive at someone else's verbal agression and outward attitude.....Sometimes it is a kind of passive aggressive statement, a mean inuendo, a way of denying Buddha nature , almost denying the other person's existence or presence by totally ignoring that person or for a more vivid personal example denying my suffering after an accident while emphasising someone else's pain from a bad fall. This can trigger a wave of sadness and resentment, a kind of desappointment and loss of faith in human and sangha's kindness. Not because my suffering is underestimated but because I trusted the person to have equanimity, empathy and a good heart being for instance a person of status and then I feel being slightly, softly bullied, betrayed in a subtle way that can hardly be pinpointed but is still very efficient in debasing my heart. And in the case of the accident that is still quite fresh even though my situation is already quite dire i feel this is not something that i can really express openly to anybody. The already known answer is : you have too much expectation ....and this i can't understand .Somehow by a sort of a "pirouette " the fault is back on me ...either in the name of karma or in the name of my own perception being faulty or something else .Nothing in the attitude of that person is questioned , The whole situation is my fault and my unique fault ....something inside me cannot accept this .Where is compassion ?even in this kind of stoke conclusion , where is all those grand attitud of being of support, embodiment of loving kindness good friend on the path ...etc...Could we manage not to fall in biased explanation ,or ready to serve answers. I share this because it feels it is in the subject of this video...And because I am sure this apply to many including me. The question of developing real heartfelt compassion that does not judge , that is caring ,understanding and loving seems crucial...and the way to actualise this is paramount