The Question of Compassion

The question for all of us is how can our hearts stay open given the magnitude of suffering that's in the world? Is it even possible to open to it all with compassion and diminish the subtle cruelty of indifference, of not caring? Compassion requires both openness and also equanimity. It's learning to let things in without drowning in the difficulties and without being overcome by the sorrow. And this is precisely the interface of mindfulness and compassion. This is the gift of mindfulness to compassion.