Dalai Lama | The Ethic of Compassion
The Dalai Lama presents levels of compassion, beginning with empathy, which can be developed into unconditional compassion toward all sentient beings, and finally expanded to "great compassion," or the sense of responsibility toward all others. The latter functions as an aspirational ideal, reminding us not to be biased toward those we already love. This impartiality functions as a more stable basis for compassion and is then a guide for everyday life.
-To the Dalai Lama, our ___________ toward loved ones is unreliable as a guide to compassion.

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The Dalai Lama suggests that our bias toward loved ones is unreliable as a guide to compassion, as true compassion should be impartial and extended to all sentient beings.

Dalai Lama | the Ethic of Compassion