How can we love our
enemies? Because we recognize that loving-kindness is alive in every heart.
We love the evil-minded
because they need it most! “In many of them, the seeds of goodness may have
died because warmth was lacking for its growth. It perished form coldness in a
world without compassion,” Maha Ghosananda said.
This is how we can love
our enemies, because we understand.
We do not take sides in
partisan conflicts, but advocate non-partisan reconciliation without limit,
because no one is excluded form the need of love.
Loving-kindness saw the
whole world as one family, the Human Family. Human rights begin when each man
becomes a brother and each woman becomes a sister” when we truly care for each
other.
Loving-kindness is a
very powerful energy. It radiates to all without distinction. It radiates to
our loved ones, to those towards whom we are neutral, and to our enemies. There
are no boundaries to loving-kindness. The Dharma is founded on loving kindness.
The Buddha looked on the whole world with eyes of compassion, so our personal
prayer for happiness is a pryare for the whole world: May the whole world be
happy.
Compassion compels us to reach
out to all living beings, including our so-called enemies, those people who
upset or hurt us. Irrespective of what they do to you, if you remember that all
beings like you are only trying to be happy, you will find it much easier to
develop compassion towards them.
Usually our sense of compassion is limited and
biased to “me” and “mine”. We extend such feelings only towards our family and
friends or those who are helpful to us.
But true compassion is universal
in scope. There are no boundaries to loving kindness. The Buddha looked on the
whole world with eyes of compassion.
One of the emotions most
disturbing our mental tranquility is hatred. The antidote is compassion.
Wisdom sees the oneness of all things. Compassion sees
the multiplicity, the individuality,
of all things.
We are here to help as
much as we can, as many as we can, for as long as we can.
Compassion is an
understanding heart.
Loving-kindness
is like water flowing everywhere. It is a gift that we can give.
Loving-kindness is the
only way to peace.
If we can change ourselves, we can
change the world. This is the essence of Compassionate Listening: seeing the
person next to you as a part of yourself.
