In “Compassion and the Individual,” Tenzin Gyatzo, the fourteenth Dalai Lama, describes a good person as someone who is compassionate toward all people and does everything in their power to help them no matter how far they have fallen. When describing how to achieve happiness the Dalai Lama states, “ Thus we can strive gradually to become more compassionate, that is we can develop both genuine sympathy for others' suffering and the will to help remove their pain.” The Dalai Lama is explaining that if people want to become truly compassionate they must be aware of others’ feelings. Those people who are compassionate not only feel that pain, but feel as if it were their duty to help alleviate that pain. As I walk down the streets of downtown
