The Dalai Lama is one of my favourite people in the world and one of the people I most admire. It is his focus on compassion that moves me the most and I'm starting a collection of his quotes. Here is one I saw in a store yesterday and it spoke of something I truly believe.
Genuine compassion is based not on our own projections and expectations, but rather on the needs of the other: irrespective of whether another person is a close friend or an enemy, as long as that person wishes for peace and happiness and wishes to overcome suffering, then on that basis we develop genuine concern for their problem. This is genuine compassion.
For a Buddhist practitioner, the goal is to develop this genuine compassion, this genuine wish for the well-being of another, in fact for every living being throughout the universe.Caer Weber
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