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Compassion
is the best protection; it is also, as the great masters of the past have always
known, the source of all healing. Suppose you have a disease such as cancer or
AIDS. By taking on the sickness of those suffering like you, in addition to your
own pain, with a mind full of compassion, you will beyond any
doubt purify the past negative karma that is the cause, now and in the
future, of the continuation of your suffering.
In
Tibet there have been many extraordinary cases of people who, when they heard
they were dying of a terminal illness, gave away everything they had and went to
the cemetery to die. There they practiced taking on the suffering of others; and
what is amazing is that instead of dying, they returned home, fully
healed.
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