O good man! Compassion is the Buddha Nature of all beings. Such a Buddha Nature is long overshadowed by illusion. That is why beings cannot see. The Buddha Nature is Compassion.
Mahaparininirvana Sutra
Nature of All Beings
Topic: Divine Love & Goodness
“O good man! One who acts good is the “true thinking.” The true thinking is compassion. Compassion is the Tathagata.
O good man! Compassion is the bodhi path; The bodhi path is the Tathagata. The Tathagata is compassion.
O good man! Compassion is Great Brahma. Great Brahma is compassion. Compassion is the Tathagata.
O good man! Compassion acts as parent to all beings. The parent is compassion. Know that compassion is the
Tathagata.
O good man! Compassion is the Buddha Nature of all beings. Such a Buddha Nature is long overshadowed by illusion.
That is why beings cannot see. The Buddha Nature is Compassion. Compassion is the Tathagata.”
Mahaparininirvana Sutra
Wilson, Andrew, editor. World Scripture - a Comparative Anthology of Sacred Texts. Paragon House, 1991, p. 89 [Mahaparininirvana Sutra 259].
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Mahaparinirvana Sutra 259
Buddhist compassion is close to the Western concept of agape love. It is not desire seeking fulfillment, but rather the unconditional offering of love, like that of parents to their children.
Lotus Sutra 10
“The Dwelling of the Tathagata is the great compassionate heart within all the living. The Robe of the Tathagata is the
gentle and forbearing heart. The Seat of the Tathagata is the “spirituality of all existence.”
Lotus Sutra 10: This is another way of asserting the one ultimate which is all-embracing. The twin pillars of Mahayana
Buddhism are wisdom (prajna) and compassion (karuna). At the level of feeling or experience, compassion is that which
embraces all things. Wisdom teaches the oneness and inter-connectedness of all existence; hence it, too, evokes
compassion.