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Compassion is the very heart and soul of awakening. While meditation and reflection can make us more receptive to it, it cannot be contrived or manufactured. When it erupts within us, it feels as though we have stumbled across it by chance. And it can vanish just as suddenly as it appeared. It is glimpsed in those moments when the barrier of self is lifted and indivdual existence is surrendered to the well-being of existence as a whole. it becomes abundantly clear that we cannot attain awakening for ourselves: we can only participate in the awakening of life.<\/span><\/p>\n

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