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Compassion

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One of the biggest things in Buddhism is this: you must have compassion for everything around you, alive or not. Treat the cup with tender loving care and it will serve you long and hard. Everything living, needless to say, we need to be compassionate about their sufferings.

Like plants...plants suffer too when you don't water them or give them enough sunlight. Ants suffer too when you stomp on them or spray sheltox on them. :-)

So, all things here on earth are suffering in one way or another, hence, as Buddhists, if we have compassion for other living beings, it raises your spiritual awareness and personal karma.

But what is compassion and how do you extend that to your ENEMIES or people who bully you? Yes, you may suffer for a while when they bully you but there lies hope that they will soon see your compassionate side and change. If they do, then you have just saved a person's spirit. His or her soul.

However, if you choose to be vengeful upon this person that you hate, then you are only harboring on those negative energy which will affect not the other person's karma nor life, it will only affect yours.

Love is a powerful word but remember, so is hate. Hate can attract negative things into your life and increase your suffering.

It's my guess that that isn't exactly what you have in mind, eh? :-)
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