Violence is complex. It requires systems of thought, rationalizations. Violence requires the redirection of suffering, and the obfuscation of this redirection. Compassion is simple. It thrives on attention. It is always already here. Compassion arises in the empty mind, the present moment. It requires no theories or systems. It grows like weeds left alone. Hence the endless theories on the systems causing violence: patriarchy, racism, colonialism, dualism, capitalism, etc. etc. etc. There is no analogue for systems of compassion. (And the one that comes closest seems to be defined by emptiness: anarchism.) This doesn't mean that compassion is easy and...