I constantly ponder about compassion, about how I can become compassionate toward myself and others, here is what Rev. Kurt A. Kuhwald has to say about it in one sunday service. It really touches my heart to hear christian priests making referrals to Zen buddhism, or other world religions, that itself is a demonstration of acceotance and compassion in action.
"To cultivate compassion means allowing our natural sensitivity to open a place of welcome inside our selves---with a sense of inner fluidity, a sense of warmth, a sense of light receptivity. We need to learn to pay attention to ourselves, not arguming, not judging, not anxiously comparing, competing or obsessing---but openly attending and acknowledging what is actually going on: "Ah, I am calling myself stupid!" "Oh, I am scurrying around in my mind to escape the fear that is pressing." "So, I am intolerant of them, because they disagreed with me." Looking at that, without saying, "Well, that's stupid, calling myself stupid like that!" Looking at that difficulty and inner violence with an open noticing---and when we do, then the most curious thing happens: our heart opens, or melts, or both. And then, as Roshi Glassman says, we bear witness; we bear witness from what is deeper in us, deeper than the cacophony of tangled and difficult words that monopolize our minds, truncate our openness, and blind our capacity to listen deeply."
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