Compassion Is the Antidote to This Great Destroying Power

This step of the Noble Eightfold Path includes those intentions and aspirations that lead to wholesome actions. These are thoughts of renunciation, thoughts of goodwill, and lastly, thoughts of compassion, which is free of all cruelty. And in this last section of right thought, the dichotomy between skillful and unskillful is so unambiguously clear. The Dalai Lama said something very interesting about this state of heart and mind. He said, compassion and love are precious things in life.