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may all beings, without exception be happy-minded. Let none deceive another nor despise any person whatever in any place; in anger or ill-will let them not wish any suffering to each other. Just as a mother would protect her only child at the risk of her own life, even so, let him cultivate a boundless heart towards all beings.
We work to develop the capacity for wishing love, that is to say, the wish that all living beings be happy. The Lojong practices then offer skillful means to develop our compassion, the wish that all living beings without exception be free from suffering and its causes. We make the precious practice of taking and giving second nature.
In the Mahayana view, a fully enlightened Buddha does not leave samsara, but remains in the world out of compassion for all sentient beings. [213] The four truths, which aim at ending samsara, do not provide a doctrinal basis for this view, and had to be reinterpreted. [213] In the old view, klesas and karma are the cause of prolonged existence ...
The compassion we have for those close to us such as friends and family and a wish to free them from the 'suffering of suffering' [80] Immeasurable compassion This is the compassion that wishes to benefit all beings without exception. It is associated with both the Hinayana and Mahayana paths. [81]
In Buddhism, the three marks of existence are three characteristics (Pali: tilakkhaṇa; Sanskrit: त्रिलक्षण trilakṣaṇa) of all existence and beings, namely anicca (impermanence), dukkha (commonly translated as "suffering" or "cause of suffering", "unsatisfactory", "unease"), [note 1] and anattā (without a lasting essence).
Plantinga's crucial argument is that this possibility may not be available to God because all possible morally free creatures suffer from "transworld depravity". Plantinga thus argues that we cannot rule out the hypothesis that all free human beings suffer from transworld depravity. So this hypothesis may, for all we know, be true.
Altruism may be considered a synonym of selflessness, the opposite of self-centeredness. ... and compassion is the wish that all beings be free from suffering. "Many ...
He perceived God's declaration in the Book of Genesis that his creation was good to mean that the world is fit for purpose, rather than being free from suffering. [14] To illustrate the benefits of suffering, Irenaeus cited the Biblical example of Jonah, from the Book of Jonah. His suffering, being swallowed by a whale, both enabled God's plan ...