Imagine walking along a sidewalk with your arms full of groceries, and someone roughly bumps into you so that you fall and your groceries are strewn all over the ground.
As you rise up from the puddle of broken eggs and tomato juice, you are prepared to shout out, "You idiot!, what's wrong with you, are you blind?"
But, just before you can catch your breath to speak, you see that the person who bumped into you is actually blind.
He, too, is sprawled out covered in groceries, and your anger now vanishes in an instant, to be replaced by a sympathetic concern. "Are you hurt, can I help you up?"
Our situation is just like this. When we clearly realize that the true source of disharmony and misery in the world is ignorance, we can open the door of wisdom and compassion.
Compassion is the natural response to blindness.
Buddha teaches that we are all blind and thus
we suffer.
Compassion arises whenever we see our human situation clearly.
We need compassion, not anger, to help us be tender with our difficulties and not close off to them in fear.
This is how true healing takes place.
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