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“You are perfect just the way you are. And…there is still room for improvement!”
Compassion is not co-dependence. It does not mean we lose our self-respect or sacrifice ourself blindly for others.
In Buddhist psychology compassion is a circle that encompasses all beings, including ourselves.
There is a yes in compassion, and there is also a no, said with the same courage of heart.
The no is said not out of hate but out of an unwavering care.
May you be held in compassion. May your pain and sorrow be eased. May you be at peace.
Luminous is consciousness, brightly shining is its nature, but it becomes clouded by the attachments that visit it.
Ordinarily we take consciousness for granted, ignoring it as a fish ignores water. And so we focus endlessly on the contents of experience: what is happening in our body, feelings, and thoughts.
3 When we shift attention from experience to the spacious consciousness that knows, wisdom arises.
