It goes without saying that I feel immeasurable sympathy and compassion for the victims and their families.
As attendees pondered the "four immeasurables" of love, compassion, joy and equanimity, a laboratory squeezed into the basement bristled with scientific equipment from brain and heart monitors to video cameras and centrifuges.
By contrast, the Buddhist tradition teaches the four Brahmaviharas or the four immeasurables: metta (loving kindness), karuna, (compassion), mudita (sympathetic joy), and upekkha (equanimity).
Too many times people living in poverty have shared their only piece of bread with me, and to discover that sort of compassion brings with it immeasurable joy.
It is ancient wisdom that justice devoid of immeasurable and subjective values, like mercy and compassion, indeed empathy, becomes brittle and ultimately transformed into a tool of injustice, if not tyranny.
His wisdom, integrity, eloquence, humor, grace, humility and compassion were surpassed only by his immeasurable love and devotion to each of us.
The Larger Sutra is the only extant sutra that relates the narrative of how the bodhisattva Dharma-Storehouse (Dharmākara) established and fulfilled vows to become Amida ("immeasurable [light and life]"), the buddha of compassion who leads all beings to enlightenment by enabling them to be born into his buddha-field.
There must be some reason why Buddhists regard compassion as one of the four "immeasurables!" Do we need to know the sequence of hormonal releases when making love or listening to Mozart to be convinced that something beautiful is happening?
Strong, elegant and a man of immeasurable grace, Henry brought enormous love to his family, compassion to his patients, intellectual rigor to his academic interests, and a brave heart to all of his challenges in life.
His loss is immeasurable, but his legacy of great strength in leadership and genuine human compassion will live on forever.
His wisdom, integrity, compassion, grace, humor and unassuming manner were only surpassed by his immeasurable love and devotion to each of us.
