Compassion Is the Response to Suffering

Compassion is the response to suffering. For compassion to arise, we have to be willing to come close to it and open to it. Our minds are not immediately conditioned to coming close to suffering. When you sit down in meditation, all of a sudden your back is killing you, oh good. Let me be with this. It's like, I don't like this. But as we all know from very mundane things to very big things, our minds are not Immediately Conditioned to Come Close To Suffering. So for compassion to arise,. we have tobe willing to comeclose to it, to open to it... We need an attitude that says: How can I help? And