The Philosophy of Compassion

Every religion has compassion for others.

However, without compassion for yourself as well this doesn't work very well.

Often religions manipulate people with Guilt to give them money so the ministers of that can financially survive. 

However, guilt actually isn't useful at all.

What is useful is to see all beings either as having been once your mother in another lifetime including all humans and even animals and insects which Tibetan Monks do to learn compassion for all living things in the universe.

So, by practicing compassion it becomes real for you just like practicing driving you become a driver and practicing being a parent you often become a parent.

However, without compassion for yourself and your children you are not very useful to them or yourselves.

So, when you learn to have compassion for others as you have compassion for yourselves you usually are really getting somewhere and moving towards enlightenment.

However, then there is right mindful compassion and there is also idiot compassion.

idiot compassion might get you or others killed in various ways.

Whereas Wise Right mindful compassion might save the lives of all on earth from Extinction.

So, compassion by itself is not enough for enlightenment. One needs to learn Wise Right mindful Compassion to become fully enlightened.

Are there exceptions to this?

Life is always surprising me. God is always surprising me so that there might be exceptions would not be surprising to me for a variety of reasons.

Just remember kindness and compassion are contagious and kindness and compassion to yourself are contagious too. 

Spread Compassion throughout all beings. Spread kindness throughout all beings.

Spreading kindness brings gratitude not only from others to you but also from yourself to yourself and all others.

Gratitude is the Motor of Life.

Understanding all these things is everything in life.