Day 27 - meditation on compassion

Sometimes loving kindness comes in the form of compassion, the stirring of the heart in response to pain or suffering death - our own or that of others. Compassion overcomes the tendency to isolate ourselves if we're the ones in pain, or to avoid others whose pain we fear will discomfort discomfort us. Compassion ultimately involves seeing difficult States like fear, greed, and jealousy not as bad and wrong and terrible but as States of suffering. The more we do that, the more compassion will spontaneously arise within us. Love and kindness and compassion are the basis for wise, powerful, sometimes gentle, and sometimes fierce actions that can really make a difference In our lives and those of others.