ON COMPASSION IN THE TIBETAN BUDDHIST SPIRITUAL TRADITION
ON COMPASSION IN THE TIBETAN BUDDHIST SPIRITUAL TRADITION

Summary/Abstract: The Tibetan Buddhist teachings promote the practice of compassion, as a spiritual state that stems from the wish that all beings should be freed from suffering and its causes, as a feeling of love, of responsibility and respect for everything that exists around us. Buddha had showed that existential suffering is birthed by our consciousness, which has no coherent vision of itself, nor of what takes place around itself, thus making us feel like limited beings, independent on whatever is around ourselves. In Buddhism, the main cause of our suffering is the ignorance that stems from the attachment to the notion of a personal identity, of an impermanent ego. In the Buddhist perspective, compassion is a form of liberation from attachment and a feeling of impartiality towards all the other conscious beings. The Bodhisattva ideal is an example of renouncement of self and the altruism of the one that seeks to free himself in order to save the others.

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