Courageous Compassion

The point of the path to enlightenment, the end result: the removal of all separateness from others and the spontaneous capacity to benefit others, is the development of compassion and the wish to help others, no matter what.

Why “courageous”? Genuine compassion encompasses all living beings, including the harmers, the negative ones, and not just the innocent victims.

But as His Holiness the Dalai Lama says, “Compassion is not enough: we need wisdom.” By first developing our own amazing potential by lessening attachment, anxiety, anger and the other limiting states of mind, it’s then possible to develop such radical compassion.