Engaged Compassion

What can we do to alleviate suffering in the world? Pursuing this question may lead to great compassion, which is based on this sense of even-mindedness toward all living creatures. This is more than the wish, “May you be free from suffering”; it is taking upon ourselves the task of alleviating the suffering of others, and of bringing others to a state of well being.

 

B. Alan Wallace

from Tibetan Buddhism from the Ground Up