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The appropriate meaning of compassion
The Dalai urges us to feel the same compassion for strangers as we do for our family and friends. Dalai’s advice is one of the best information that could make the world a better place if at all humans can listen. What is compassion? Compassion may be defined as the ability of humans to feel pity and concern for the sufferings or misfortunes of others. Therefore, to be compassionate individuals need to adopt some changes.
The first change should involve changing the perception about who is family and who is not. If people were able to perceive each other as a family even though the economy is meandering on the hill of corruption, they would be thankful for whatever they have because there are other people in worst situations than theirs. Therefore, being appreciative would mean that we become concerned about other people.
Secondly, people should embrace Christianity which teaches that you should love your neighbour as you love yourself. If we imagine ourselves in a similar situation, what will happen to us? Therefore, If people can ask themselves this question, then the world would be a better place with minimal crimes.
Moreover, morality is the ability to differentiate what is wrong and right. Therefore, if people could adopt this moral principle, they will automatically develop the virtue of compassion. Individuals need to do to others what they wish could be done to them.
Finally, I am willing to make these changes because life is unpredictable; it is only God who knows what tomorrow holds for each one of us. The choice of being compassionate becomes a matter of morality when individuals express compassion to everyone without discrimination. As morality states, the end does not justify the means. By this, it means that sense means that wrong can never be used to justify a right and vice versa. Therefore, being compassionate requires one to draw a straight line between what is right and what is wrong.