🔼: [[☀️ Loving-Kindness (Metta)]], [[Qualities of Presence ☀️]], [[🕯️ Love]], [[⭐️ Self-Love]] ## ☀️ Compassion (Karuna) >"*Compassion moves us beyond numbness towards healing.*" >— [[👤 Anton Chekov]] Also known as the Pali and Sanskrit word "Karuna," Compassion is [[☀️ Loving-Kindness (Metta)]] in the presence of [[💡 Suffering|Suffering]], the recognition and acceptance of our shared humanity, the expression of [[💡 Empathy|empathy]] and concern to people experiencing difficulty with the desire to bring relief. Compassion is active. It comes from a place of care, a desire to help (see: [[Loving Action]], [[⭐️ Community Care]]). ###### Keys - [[🔑 Compassion is more important than methodology]] - [[🔑 We need both Compassion and Empathy]] - [[🔑 We are all blameless]] - [[🔑 Everyone everywhere is doing their best all the time]] - 🔑 Anything that is wrong to do to another person is also wrong to do to yourself. Treat yourself the way you want to be treated. - 🔑 It's normal for Compassion to be difficult to access, especially if our [[💡 Parts|Parts]] have been [[💡 Polarization|at war with one another]] for a long while. - 🔑 We can have Compassion *and* set [[🕯️ Boundaries]]. - [[🔑 The Near Enemy of Compassion is Pity]] - [[🔑 The most compassionate people have boundaries of steel]] ![[⭐ Self-Compassion]] ###### 🕯️ Compassion Practices >”*When we practice generating compassion we come to experience our fear of pain. Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax and allow ourselves to move gently toward what scares us. In cultivating compassion we draw from the wholeness of our experience. Our suffering, our [[💡 Empathy|empathy]], as well as our cruelty and terror — it has to be this way. Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded, **it’s a relationship between equals**. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.*” > — [[👤 Pema Chödrön]] - Learning experientially that [[🔑 There are no bad Parts|🔑 All Parts have benevolent intentions]], taking [[🕯️ Mindful Moments]] to notice what is arising and pausing to ask ourselves whether we can see the truth, beauty, or goodness of what’s arising, how we [[F4 — Feel Toward|Feel Toward]] them, and continuing to [[🕯️ Unblending|unblend]] until we can see the [[💡 Parts|Parts’]] truth, beauty, or goodness. %%- CARE - Center yourself - Acknowledge the critical inner voice, hear it out "I know you're trying to help me, but you're causing me pain" - Request to hear from your compassionate voice - Embrace the compassionate words, [[🔑 let the good land]].%% - [[🕯️ Letters from Love]] - [[🧘 Loving-Kindness (Metta) Meditation]] - [[🧘 Tonglen]] - [[💡 Sonder]] - [[Loving Eyes]] [^1]: