Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear.

I am working on a technical paper on compassion. So I am reading everything I can on the subject, including my own mind and heart.

Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way.

I remember having a discussion with [Kaz] about his translation of the word shunyata as "boundlessness," instead of the more traditional "emptiness." I said: "Kaz, everyone is used to the word emptiness for shunyata. This might not sit well with people. He said: "Translator's prerogative!" Then he added, "One cannot assume we know what they meant...." I agreed.

Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear.

[Kaz] is a great scholar, very funny - a true man of no rank!

When we have disorderly lives, it makes it difficult for our minds to be orderly and for us to be at ease with disorder.