Compassion

  This meditation encourages you to develop compassion towards everyone. you learn to empathise with the suffering humans and make conscious efforts to alleviate it. It is a practice which makes you feel relaxed and feel good about yourself and ...

Known amongst Buddhists as Karuna Meditation, ( karuna means loving kindness) the compassion meditation as it is universally referred, originates from Buddhist philosophies that encourage the devout Buddhists to have a compassionate attitude towards everyone. Firstly you need to ...

People often get confused between being kind and being foolish. Being foolish means lacking good sense or judgement, but kindness is different but to be kind means, one is generous, considerate and friendly. No matter what people say, but kindness is ...

Buddhists believe in past lives. Here is a story from the Jataka tales, about the compassionate Gautama Buddha who was a deer in one of his past lives before reincarnating as Prince Siddharta of the Skhya dynasty.There was a king ...

Should one react or respond to a situation? A short story from the life of Buddha reveals the truth.Buddha was once confronted by an angry village while he was passing through it. They hurled abuses at Him mercilessly. Buddha remained calm ...

A short soul stirring read.Supreme contentment brings in the coolness of the moon, within one with burning desires. Two fakirs returned home in Japan for the rainy season after eight months of travelling, singing God's name. ...

A young man who was disgusted with life after a bitter experience, requested a master in a monastery to relieve him off his sufferings once for all. He also revealed to the master that he was incapable of ...

Once as a Zen master was celebrating his master's birthday, someone asked him as to why he was celebrating his master's birthday when he had denied him of becoming his disciple several times. He pointed out that the master ...

Porulaatchi poatraathaarkku illai arulaatchi Aangillai uoonthin pavarkku. Just as wealth does no good to those who do not cherish it in the right spirit,Compassion too will not co-exist with meat-eating.According to Valluvar, obviously, it is a ...

Thannoon perukkarkuth thaanpiridhu uoonunbaan Enganam aalum arul It is inconsistent with the way of living compassion, To fatten oneself on the flesh of a fellow-creature.Thiruvalluvar's idea is that meat-eating and compassion or tenderness towards all life, ...

Valiyaarmun thannai ninaikkathaan thannin Meliyarmael cellum idathu. When one tends to become cruel to those under his control One should think of himself cowering before stronger men.Here is another instance of Valluvar's practical approach to the problem ...

Terulaathaan meyppporul kandatraal thaerin Arulaathaan seyyum aram. It is easy to see that clear understanding is essential for acquiring knowledge;But it is not so easy to visualize that compassion is essential for goodness.Analytical understanding leads to true ...