Dalai Lama Two Levels Of Compassion

According to the Dalai Lama the two levels of compassion include biological and extended expressions. Biological compassion includes the unconditional affection of a mother to her child, extended compassion refers to concern of human-beings regardless of societal beliefs and opinions. Generally, most individuals only extend their compassion to loved ones, or those within their belief systems. This way of showing compassion often leads to recrimination and resentment towards other groups of people with differing ethical beliefs. As intelligent and perceptive animals, we are capable to expand our levels of compassion to embrace humanity as a whole. Ideally, we should be able to lend a caring hand to another without judging or questioning them