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Love and Compassion. The two most important things about you. What is compassion? It is not simply a warmth of heart toward the person before you, or a sharp clarity of recognition of their needs and pain, it is also a sustained and practical determination to do whatever is possible and necessary to help alleviate ones suffering. “If all the harms Fears and sufferings in the world Arise from self grasping, What need have I for such a great evil spirit?” And a resolution is born in us to destroy that evil spirit, our greatest enemy. With that evil spirit dead, the cause of all our suffering will be removed, and our true nature, in all it’s spaciousness and dynamic generosity, will shine out. You can have no greater ally in this war against your greatest enemy, your own self grasping and self cherishing, than the practice of compassion. It is compassion, dedicating ourselves to others, taking on their suffering instead of cherishing ourselves, that hand in hand with the wisdom that realizes egolessness destroys most effectively and most completely that ancient attachment to a false self that has been the cause of endless wandering in your own mind. That is why compassion is the source and essence of true enlightenment. We need to make a very clear destination between what is in our ego’s self interest and what is in out ultimate interest. It is from mistaking one for the other that all our suffering comes. What will you do tomorrow to eliminate the suffering in others life’s? In then in turn help eliminate suffering in your own life? Help others and help yourself and learn to be more compassionate. It is not something that can be done immediately. Compassion takes practice and determination. However, the decision to start practicing compassion is the first step to mastering it and truly benefiting yourself, others, and this world as a whole. I

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