December 1, 2012 an easy 54 mile relaxing meditative
run, “The essence of love and compassion is understanding, the ability to
recognize the physical, material, and psychological suffering of others, to put
ourselves "inside the skin" of the other. We "go
inside" their body, feelings, and mental formations, and witness for
ourselves their suffering. Shallow observation as an outsider is not
enough to see their suffering. We must become one with the subject of our
observation. When we are in contact with another's suffering, a feeling
of compassion is born in us. Compassion means, literally, "to suffer
with."
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