# Daily Dharma 7 februari,2018
Author: Fredrik1

"I quite often say this. Historically it happens that there is one person in the world who has power. If that person who has power lacks compassion, then millions of people can be killed. Many millions of people are killed or tortured. This is without counting the animals that are much more, on the land and in the ocean, that are killed and suffer; there are so many more than human beings. This is without counting them. If this one person who has power and influence were to practice compassion, instead of harming many millions of people, it would be the opposite, the complete opposite. He could bring incredible benefit, peace, so much happiness, to many millions of people. It’s the complete opposite. Because of compassion, that one person’s power could be used for unbelievable benefit and happiness, for thousands and millions of sentient beings. When there is power, it makes a huge difference, it makes a huge difference if there’s compassion, what it can do to the world. But if there’s no compassion, what danger there is. This one person’s power can bring such danger to the world. It makes a huge difference, not just to one country but to the whole world. Similarly, if we don’t practice compassion, if we don’t generate compassion, there’s a danger that we harm other humans and other sentient beings from birth until death. Because of the self-cherishing thought, many other disturbing thoughts arise: ignorance, anger, attachment and so forth. We do many harmful actions toward others. From birth until death we give so much harm to others—and like this from life to life. From life to life we give harm to all sentient beings, like the example of this one person. " Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Practicing the Unmistaken Path https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story\_fbid=10155931221755851&id=197994450850