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@@ -39802,3 +39802,28 @@ they please without being bound by any attachment or aversion.
      Distinction between Phenomena and the Nature of Phenomena and Its Indian
      and Tibetan Commentaries", published by Shambhala Publications and Snow
      Lion Publications
+~
+Our awareness of feelings in the body and mind ranges from simple frustration
+and malaise to anguish, despair, and white-hot physical pain, and from simple
+pleasures to extraordinary ecstasy.  As we become clearly cognizant of the
+bandwidth of our own feelings, we direct our awareness externally.  We become
+vividly aware that myriad sentient beings around us are not simply objects of
+our pleasure, displeasure, or indifference, but have feelings just like ours.
+By turning our awareness outward and closely applying mindfulness to other
+sentient beings, we can empathize with their feelings.  When we empathize with
+another’s suffering and we attend closely, compassion arises.  The suffering
+of unpleasant feelings is the very source of the experience of compassion.
+  -- B. Alan Wallace, in "Minding Closely: The Four Applications of
+     Mindfulness", works published by Shambhala Publications and Snow Lion
+     Publications
+~
+It is our aim to have genuine loving-kindness toward all sentient beings
+because we see them suffering.  In the Mahayana tradition, it says that
+through our innumerable lifetimes, at some time or other, every single
+sentient being has been in the relation to us of our mother, our friends, or
+someone who has helped us.  We look at all sentient beings in this way.  We
+feel a deep yearning to help them because they have helped us.  When we
+contemplate in this way, we find that some kind of compassion begins to take
+place.
+  -- Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche in "The Tibetan Buddhism Reader", published by
+     Shambhala Publications