Definition: Compassion

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Revision: 9 Jul 2025

Compassion

A form of love that works to alleviate and ultimately to eliminate suffering.
A form of love that works to end suffering by eliminating the root cause of suffering, which is forgetfulness of being THE SUPREME.
Loving action that restores the knowing of reality and truth.
The practice of compassion facilitates the realization of truth as an antidote to suffering. Suffering diminishes as truth is realized.
To the extent that one has realized THE SUPREME, one is able to practice compassion powerfully and comprehensively.
To the extent that one has remembered being THE SUPREME, one is able to practice compassion powerfully and comprehensively.
Compassionate action is empowered in the measure that the practitioner is acting with awareness and awakeness.
Compassion can be fierce. The process of eliminating suffering may be experienced as “tough love” by those who are attached to their suffering or the causes of their suffering.
The most potent compassion uproots the cause of all suffering for all beings.
The most potent compassion facilitates the full remembrance of THE SUPREME, which is the full remembrance of being THE SUPREME. Suffering disappears completely when THE SUPREME is completely remembered.

Sayings:

“Compassion can be fierce, though never without love. Compassion without love cannot be compassion.”