菩不一定有笑容的， 慈悲不一定是柔的。
A Bodhisattva may not always have a smile
just as compassion may not necessarily be delicate.
有候，在培慈悲心的程，最易令人解的地方是以要有一放的心，真正具有同情的心，意味著我必被配合任由人使，面任何情境要嘻笑以，人予取予求，然而不叫做慈悲，恰恰相反，慈悲不是手之力，它的真力量是自於我看透世一切事物的本面目而不屈就。
慈悲允我苦的存在粹是反映在明的意，是自己或他人而不感到恐突。它我毫不豫地出事，反竭所能正行事。培慈悲心就是....有尊地活，克服在恐取回自己的力量，神佛，一切生，一例外。
Sometimes we think that to develop an open heart, to be truly loving and compassionate, means that we need to be passive, to allow others to abuse us, to smile and let anyone do what they want with us. Yet this is not what is meant by compassion. Quite the contrary. Compassion is not at all weak. It is the strength that arises out of seeing the true nature of suffering in the world. Compassion allows us to bear witness to that suffering, whether it is in ourselves or others, without fear; it allows us to name injustice without hesitation, and to act strongly, with all the skill at our disposal. To develop this mind state of compassion...is to learn to live, as the Buddha put it, with sympathy for all living beings, without exception.
- Sharon Salzberg
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