Which word do I prefer? Compassion or love. I will deal with love first.

Love is such a beautiful word. Just saying it makes one heart feel light. ‘To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.’

Compassion is that ‘We must treat others as we wish others to treat us.’

According to Osho, whatever one sees, its echo is created within one. Buddha said that if one has compassion, one has everything. Compassion is not love. Love comes and goes but compassion is a love, which once it comes never goes. In love there is a subtle desire to get something from the other. In compassion, there is the awareness that no one has anything to give; everyone is so poor that they have nothing to give and that is why there is compassion. There is no demand in compassion. In this state there is no desire even to give, but the effect of such compassion is that all the doors of the heart become wide open, and something spontaneously begins to be distributed.

Buddha told his disciples that when they meditate, worship or pray, they must remember to distribute whatsoever peace they receive. ‘Open the doors of your heart and let the joy flow towards all those who need it–just as water flows down the mountains. ‘This great compassion is the ultimate liberation.

Aim Hrim Klim