Compassion leads to mindfulness?

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omnifriend
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Compassion leads to mindfulness?

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Does practicing compassion meditation give rise to mindful awareness? I'm wondering if I do compassion meditation mindfulness may come out of it naturally.
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Re: Compassion leads to mindfulness?

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I think that is a fair intuition.

These practices are mutually supportive and reinforcing. Mindfulness likewise leads to compassion, I think.
There is no suffering to be severed. Ignorance and klesas are indivisible from bodhi. There is no cause of suffering to be abandoned. Since extremes and the false are the Middle and genuine, there is no path to be practiced. Samsara is nirvana. No severance achieved. No suffering nor its cause. No path, no end. There is no transcendent realm; there is only the one true aspect. There is nothing separate from the true aspect.
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