Mindfulness is the first step the prerequisite and basis of meditation practice. Still, it's not sufficient on its own. When employed skillfully it helps us hold painful thoughts, feelings in an open balanced awareness without becoming fused with them. Compassion than helps us soothe those feeling and go beyond such feelings. Mindfulness is the doctor, compassion is the salve.
Only by turning on the light, you can instantly destroy the darkness. Meditation can be the light shining awareness onto our attachments and afflictive emotions. As turning on the lights in a darkroom instantly removes the darkness. Likewise, through meditation or even, a rather simple analysis of our patterns of ego-clinging and afflictive emotions can make them collapse. Such collapse sees through our attachments and how these can be the cause of our suffering. Such can lead to liberation from the cycle of Samsara and the transcending of suffering .
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