Compassion comes from clearly seeing the state of how others are. Shifting your attention away from being concerned with merely yourself, you begin to tune into how other beings feel. Soon you realize that their aims and what they actually manage to achieve are in a total contradiction. Everyone wants to be happy and free, but the involvement pursued through thought, word and deed for the most part create future pain, future entanglement. When one really sees this clearly, the sense of compassion becomes overwhelming. Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche