Quotes About Compassion

maitri, which can be translated as loving-kindness or benevolence.

The second element of true love is compassion, karuna. This is not only the desire to ease the pain of another person, but the ability to do so.

There are four elements that make up true love, the four immeasurable minds. They are maitri (loving kindness), karuna (compassion), mudita (joy), and upeksha (equanimity, nondiscrimination).

Signlessness is not just an idea. When we look deeply into our children, we see all the elements that have produced them. They are the way they are because our culture, economy, society, and we ourselves are the way we are. We can't simply blame our children when things go wrong. Many causes and conditions have contributed. When we know how to transform ourselves and our society

The third element of true love is joy, mudita.

The ocean of suffering is immense, but if you turn around, you can see the land. The seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don't wait until you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to be happy.

But very few school programs teach young people how to live — how to deal with anger, how to reconcile conflicts, how to breathe, smile, and transform internal formations. There needs to be a revolution in education. We must encourage schools to train our students in the art of living in peace and harmony.

Even with a lot of goodwill, we can still make the other person very unhappy. Mindfulness is the paintbrush in the art of happiness. When we are mindful, we are more artful and happiness blooms

Do you have enough time to love? Can you make sure that in your everyday life you have a little time to love?

When we practice Right Mindfulness, we see the seed of Buddhahood in everyone, including ourselves. This is Right View. Sometimes it is described as the Mother of All Buddhas (prajna paramita), the energy of love and understanding that has the power to free us. When we practice mindful living, our Right View will blossom, and all the other elements of the path in us will flower, also.

When your mind is liberated your heart floods with compassion: compassion for yourself, for having undergone countless sufferings because because you were not yet able to relieve yourself of false views, hatred, ignorance, and anger; and compassion for others because they do not yet see and are still imprisoned by false views, hatred, and ignorance and continue to create suffering for themselves and others.

L'abitante di un villaggio mi scrutava Disperato eppure senza paura, Risponde: "Odio entrambe le fazioni. Non ne seguo nessuna. Voglio solo andare Dove mi lascino vivere E i aiutino a vivere". Vita ! quanta infelicità

This is real meditation. In this particular meditation, all at once there is love, compassion, joy, and freedom—the four constituents of the true love of which the Buddha speaks.

You must always check things out by going to the person in question and asking for his or her help: "Dear one, I am suffering so much, help me please.

Compassionate listening is a very deep practice. You listen not to judge or to blame. You listen just because you want the other person to suffer less.

May we eat only foods that nourish us and prevent illnes.. May we accept this food for the realization of the way of understanding and love.

This is the path that goes to the shore of no-birth and no-death, leading to the end of suffering and calamity. On the spiritual path, there is no longer the discrimination between friend and enemy. You do not need to know who has worldly power or who has not.

According to Buddhism, we are dealing with samyojana, the lump of suffering within us that is translated as an "internal formation." When you say something that makes another person suffer, that person develops an "internal formation.

The teachings of the Buddha were not to escape from life, but to help us relate to ourselves and the world as thoroughly as possible. The Noble Eightfold Path includes Right Speech and Right Livelihood. These teachings are for people in the world who have to communicate with each other and earn a living.

El deseo de dañar que alberga el terrorista se origina en su propio sufrimiento. Quien ignora el modo de tratar su propio sufrimiento puede tratar de aliviarlo castigando a los demás.

Understanding is the essence of love. If you cannot understand, you cannot love.

You could treat people right without fearing or trying to please God. You could do it simply because it was human to do it, because love was a more ennobling tendency than hate, and if you were lucky, maybe you could live with yourself and sleep nights.

A criminal is undoubtedly a poor soul, who is punished for his poverty.

We see so much sadness if we care to look.