Extract from Jewel Heart Journal

 

There are many different levels of compassion.
In general, compassion means to focus on a sentient being who is suffering- either physically or mentally- and have the wish for that being to be freed from his or her pain, freed from that suffering. This is called compassion. Of course we all have a certain amount of compassion. Whenever we see someone suffering, we all have some kind of feeling that wishes that particular being to be free of that suffering. But we do not have universal compassion, compassion toward all sentient beings. Ordinary beings lack this.

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慈悲心可以分成许多不同的层次。

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在一般情况 下，慈悲心意味着专注一个众生身体上或精神 上的的痛苦，并希望那众生能从他或她的痛苦中得到解脱。这就是所谓的慈悲心。当然， 我们都具备了一定的慈悲心。每当我们看到别人在受苦，我们都会产生一种期望他能远离痛苦的微妙感觉。但我们并不具备慈无量心，对一切众生的慈悲心。一般人都缺乏这一点。

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Quoted from Freeing the Heart and Mind
by His Holiness Sakya Trizin
节录自尊贵的 萨迦法王著作《心灵与心智的解脱》