You wouldn’t put it together at the first go. These two things wouldn’t even come into the same basket in the first 100 goes of thinking about compassion, it just doesn’t compute… Until you break it down.
Compassion is a word, concept, a way of life, emotionalizing and connecting to people we spend a lot of time meditating on. It comes easy and natural to some, some have to consciously work at it, some never acquire it, but it is the real life or death question for a species, because the key to excelling is not competition but cooperation. You
