The meditation on love is not just sitting still and visualizing that our love will spread out into space like waves of sound or light. Sound and Light have the ability to penetrate everywhere, and love can do the same. But if our love is only a kind of imagination, then it is not likely to have any real effect.It is in the midst of our daily life and in our actual contact with others that we can know whether our mind of love is really present and how stable it is. If LOVE is REAL, it will
be evident in our daily life, in the way we relate with people and the
world.

The source of love is deep in us, and we can help others realize a lot of happiness. One word, one action, or a thought can reduce another person's suffering and bring him/her joy. One word can give comfort and confidence, destroy doubt, help someone avoid a mistake, reconcile a conflict... One action can save a person's life or help him/her take advantage of rare opportunity. One thought
can do the same, because thoughts always lead to words and actions.
If LOVE is our HEART. Each THOUGHT, WORD and DEED can bring about aMICRACLE. Because UNDERSTANDING is the very foundation of LOVE, WORD and ACTION that emerge from OUR LOVE are always helpful.

COMPASSION is a mind that removes the suffering that is present in the
others.  We all have the seeds of LOVE and COMPASSION in our minds& hearts, we can develop these fine & wonderful sources of energy. We can nurture
the unconditional love that does not expect anything in return and
therefore does not lead to anxiety and sorrow. The essence of COMPASSION is UNDERSTANDING, the ability to recognize the physical, material, and psychological suffering of others, to put ourselves of the other. We go inside their body, feeling, and mental formations, and witness for ourselves their suffering. Shallow observation as an outside is not enough to see their suffering. We must
become one with the object of our observation. When we are in contact with another's suffering, a feeling of compassion is born in us. We begin by choosing as the object of our meditation someone who is undersgoing physical or material suffering, someone who is weak and easily ill, poor or oppressed, or has no protection. This kind of suffering is easy for us to see. After that, we can practice being in contact with more subtle forms of suffering. Sometimes, the other
person does not seem to be suffering at all, but we may notice that he/she has
sorrows which have left their marks in hidden ways. People with more than enough material comforts also suffer.

We look deeply at the person who is the object of our meditation on compassion, both during sitting meditation and when we are actually in contact with him/her. We must allow enough time to be really in deep contact with his/her suffering, We continue to observe him/her until compassion arises and penetrates our beings.
When we observe deeply in this way, our meditation will naturally transform into some kind of action. We will not say: I LOVE YOU, but instead: I will do something so that he/she will suffer less and less. The mind of compassion is truly present when it is effective in removing another person's suffering. We have to find ways to nourish and express our compassion. When we come into contact with the other person, our thoughts and actions should express our mind of compassion, even if that person says and does things that are not easy to accept. We practice in this way until we see clearly that our LOVE is not contingent upon the other person being lovable. Then we can know that our mind of compassion
is firm and authenic.

We ourselves will be more at ease, and the person who has been the object of our meditation will also benefit eventually. His/her suffering will slowly diminish, and his/her life will gradually be brighter and more joyful as a result of our compassion. We can also meditate on the suffering of those who cause us to suffer.

Anyone who has made us suffer is undoubtedly suffering too. We only
need to follow our BREATING IN & OUT and look deeply, and naturally we will see his/her suffering. A part of his/her difficulties and sorrows may
have been brought about by his/her parents' lack of skill when he/she was still young. But his/her parents themselves may have been victims of their parents; the suffering has been transmitted from generation to generation and been reborn in him/her. If we see that, we will no longer blame him/her for making us suffer, because we know that he/she is also a victim. TO LOOK DEEPLY is TO UNDERSTAND. Once we understand the reason he/she has acted badly, our bitterness towards him/her will vanish. We will feel cool and light, and we can SMILE. We do not need the other to be present in order to bring about reconciliation. When we look deeply, we become reconciled with ourselves, and for us, the problem no longer exists.

Sooner or later, he/she will see our attitude and will share in the freshness of the stream of LOVE and COMPASSION which is natural from our HEART.