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Video Transcript
Awareness is awareness of the difficulties, great problems that we have, and of the way to solve it. And the way to solve it is with a mind of compassion. That is the answer. Not the automatic mind, but the mind of compassion. And compassion means suffering together — com means together — passion, suffering together, being aware that my suffering is part of the suffering of the whole world. And when we look at someone else, we realize we are all suffering. But compassion means also shared passion for a vision, for the vision of a better world. And that is what we want to mean by compassion, a world in which we stop and gain wisdom, in which we look and gain awareness, and on the basis of that, act with a loving mind, with a heart mind, with a mind that says, “yes, we belong together,” because that’s the essence of love. Yes, we belong together, that’s what love is.
This video clip is an excerpt from Br. David’s talk at the 2014 Wisdom 2.0 conference. Watch the full talk here.
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