Monday Mantra 124

July 20, 2015

"For our compassion to be effective, it must be as unbearable as the world’s suffering is." - Ogyen Trinley Dorje

Compassion is the passion for empathy. Compassion reveals the injured and lovely world and requires us only to act in meaningful ways. Meaningful action moves beyond selfishness and complacency, past barriers of personal comfort and fear of the unknown into the “unbearable” suffering. "Effective compassion” recognizes the power of our vulnerability and our strength. It knits us together with all of humanity, which is where we truly belong.