Having compassion for yourself and others is the first step to becoming Enlightened

Why is this important?

Because if you see everyone as your enemy someone might kill you because you are perceiving reality in this way. So, seeing everyone as your enemy usually causes your death or maiming thinking this way.

So, by taking a proactive approach and starting with Compassion all this changes. Your decisions change. Who you choose to spend time around changes. Everything changes in your life once you learn the first steps to Enlightenment.

Then you can move past this point to understanding the difference between idiot compassion and Right mindful Compassion.

Idiot compassion would be giving a child not properly trained a loaded gun and telling him to go hunt for food with it. Not only might the child wind up dead but also his friends or relatives as well. So, even though you thought you were helping this child you likely just killed this child instead.

What is Right mindful compassion?

Well. it is sort like "Give someone a fish and they eat for a day. Teach someone to fish and they live for a lifetime"

It is sort of like that.

For example, if hunting is legal in season where you live going with that child that you taught to use that weapon to hunt with might keep that child alive in the future if societies collapse and he might have to hunt deer to live and survive and to feed his family in the future.

OR maybe sending that child to school with money you make to a private school or home schooling that child to teach that child the important things he or she needs to know to survive this century?

Compassion that is practical is also usually life saving too in one way or another.

So, having compassion for yourself and others and then moving on this compassion in really practical ways will change not only your life but others lives as well. 

By God's Grace