It is not easy to finish an action that will cause another person to suffer, even if you believe that you have exhausted all other options. Delusion and karmic patterns often lock us into cyclical and codependent patterns of suffering. To break that pattern can be very painful: leaving a lover, evicting or firing a person, tough love with your children, self-discipline. My teacher tells me that this is the heart of Zen. Sometimes true compassion is kindness, soft, and comforting; other times it is hard, jarring, and painful. Don't flinch!
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