The Ethics Of Compassion Dalai Lama Analysis

Everyone, every day, has a chance to show compassion to someone in need. When people are driving down the road and see others, homeless, sitting out by the road just waiting for someone to show them a little compassion and help them out. That is a chance to show some compassion even on a small scale. I know I usually don’t take these opportunities to show compassion, but why? Why is something so simple and easy as handing a dude a dollar on the street hard for me to do? This is probably due to the fact that I don’t like to be out of my comfort zone when dealing with strangers. Who knows what this raggedy man is capable of doing. What if he isn’t even really homeless, and just looking for some easy money. In the end, this man that sits on the side of the road all day long wants the same thing as me, in the Dalai Lama “The Ethics of Compassion” the author writes “…whether fortunate or unfortunate, distant or near, they desire to be happy and not to suffer.” How would I live differently if I took the ideas of this author seriously? The author states that “compassion is understood mainly in terms of empathy, our ability to enter into and, to some extent, share others’ suffering.” When the Dalai Lama wants me to be compassionate he doesn’t only mean to the people that are nice to me that need help or the people that are in desperate need for
Staying out of your comfort zone and doing things with people that harm you and people you would normally never be around is a great way to be compassionate. The only way to get to where being compassionate towards everyone is to practice and continue to live an unselfish life. Showing empathy towards people good or bad and remembering that just like me, everyone wants to be happy and not to suffer. So by following what the Dalai Lama says I would try to help anybody that is suffering to be happy no matter the cost to my own