Looking at various means of developing compassion, I think empathy is an important factor: the ability to appreciate others' suffering.

...there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation.

I really do not want to carry some kind of party function.

The truly good gaze upon everything with love and understanding.

Today different ethnic groups and different nations come together due to common sense.

We must openly accept all ideologies and systems as a means of solving humanity's problems. One country, one nation, one ideology, one system is not sufficient.

From a Buddhist point of view, the actual experience of death is very important. Although how or where we will be reborn is generally dependent on karmic forces, our state of mind at the time of death can influence the quality of our next rebirth. So at the moment of death, in spite of the great variety of karmas we have accumulated, if we make a special effort to generate a virtuous state of mind, we may strengthen and activate a virtuous karma, and so bring about a happy rebirth.