Compassion

DEVELOPING COMPASSION FOR SUFFERING

Compassion is a caring, understanding, and empathic attitude towards suffering, whether in ourselves or in others.

Everything that lives will experience suffering within their lives so we need to develop compassion for suffering in others and ourselves. Compassion is a caring, understanding, and empathic attitude towards suffering, whether in ourselves or in others. Compassion is the correct attitude to develop towards suffering. It helps us care. It helps us develop the wish to love and help all beings to alleviate or remove suffering as much as is possible.

Selfish Egotism

Selfish egotism is the greatest obstacle to developing compassion. We can understand and remove this obstacle within ourselves and develop the skill to help others also overcome this nasty mental condition.