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Compassion Prevents Our Heart to Sink or Harden | Ajahn Dhammasiha | Buddhism | Dhammagiri
As we witness so much suffering, war, calamities and atrocities due to our exposure to media, there's a danger that our heart responds by:
Sinking: We may become depressed, embittered, hopeless.
Hardening: We just close off our heart, and no longer feel any empathy. We just don't care, we don't bother anymore.
Both reponses are unskillful and unbeneficial for both ourselves and other beings. Ajahn Dhammasiha describes how compassion (karuṇā) can prevent our heart from either sinking or hardening.
Compassion is the intention for all beings to be free from suffering. We wish all beings, without…
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