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1 Intro | English, the practice of compassion and detachment can appear
2 Intro | In contemporary usage, compassion brings to mind outward-moving
3 Intro | as the following: ~ ~• If compassion means to relieve suffering
4 Intro | humanity? ~• Is the concept of compassion in Buddhism too passive,
5 Compas| Compassion~Karuˆå is the Påli word
6 Compas| Påli word translated as compassion. Contemporary writers have
7 Compas| suffering of others."15 ~"Compassion is a virtue which uproots
8 Compas| increase them."16 ~"This (compassion) isn't self-pity or pity
9 Compas| of meaning in the term "compassion" can be detected in the
10 Compas| those who accuse Buddhist compassion of being too passive are
11 Compas| the morality they stress. Compassion for the life, feelings,
12 Compas| the first must flow from compassion if it is to be effective.
13 Compas| translated as sympathy or compassion, is used and not karuˆå: ~"
14 Compas| twice-born, in whom there is no compassion for living beings-know him
15 Compas| exercising of this kind of compassion is the realization that
16 Compas| Here, non-harming and compassion flow both from a sensitivity
17 Compas| in the shoes of others. Compassion towards self and compassion
18 Compas| Compassion towards self and compassion towards others are inseparable. ~
19 Compas| and government also embody compassion as a guiding principle.
20 Compas| In this sutta, lack of compassion for the poor leads to the
21 Compas| society would be rooted in compassion. Compassion is its prerequisite. ~
22 Compas| be rooted in compassion. Compassion is its prerequisite. ~To
23 Compas| developed friendliness (mettå), compassion (karuˆå), sympathetic joy (
24 Compas| to be moved, thus it is compassion. Or, alternatively, it combats (
25 Compas| demolishes it, thus it is compassion. Or, alternatively, it is
26 Compas| by pervasion, thus it is compassion."23~Bhikkhu Ñåˆamoli, in
27 Compas| paragraph, Buddhaghosa adds that compassion succeeds "when it makes
28 Compas| s words about the great compassion (mahåkaruˆå) and wisdom (
29 Compas| others' suffering and through compassion that he undertook to counteract
30 Compas| crossed over and through compassion that he brought others across" ~"
31 Compas| Likewise it was through compassion that he became the world'
32 Compas| and insight, and karuˆå or compassion with liberative action.
33 Compas| suffering is universal, but made compassion the reverse side of this
34 Compas| purified mind filled with compassion. The mission he set for
35 Compas| happiness of the many, out of compassion for the world, for the good,
36 Compas| for them, because of his compassion for them."32 ~For the above
37 Compas| done. They now embodied compassion. Compassion was their nature-Mahå-karuˆå,
38 Compas| now embodied compassion. Compassion was their nature-Mahå-karuˆå,
39 Compas| nature-Mahå-karuˆå, great compassion, rather than the elementary
40 Compas| rather than the elementary compassion which the novice on the
41 Compas| strength of the concept of compassion within Buddhism is that
42 Compas| notions of detachment and compassion. They centre around two
43 Compas| the Buddhist concept of compassion is not active enough, being
44 Compas| partial. For what passes as compassion can cloak emotions of a
45 Compas| can show true empathy and compassion for others, before one can
46 Compas| inter-related terms within Buddhism. Compassion needs the clear insight
47 Compas| need the active, liberative compassion which seeks to relieve the
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