During this season of the Buddha’s Enlightenment, as we enter the dark of winter, Rev. Clairissa illuminates some of the teaching on Great Compassion from our festival offertory. 

Compassion appears in many varying ways in Buddhist iconography, scripture, and practice. Rev. Clairissa reminds us that compassion — however you define it, pronounce it, or spell it in whatever language — is the very root and ground of being, from which even enlightenment originates.