The Great Responsiveness Meditation
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‘Great Responsiveness’ is an ancient understanding of what came to be known in India, and then in the rest of Asia, and much later the whole world, as Mahākarunā. Today, it is often mistranslated as “great compassion,” but compassion is a feeling that we have for the suffering of others, and even a feeling of wanting to help them — but that is not what Great Responsiveness means. It is the ‘automatic,’ or even better, the autogenous effort to help all beings, including oneself, equally. It is the ‘omninclusive’ response to the suffering of all.
Great Responsiveness Meditation is the practice that is described in the Surangama Sutra as being that of Avalokitasvara and Buddha Shakyamuni — and all Buddhas. It is also the practice that is mentioned in the prophecy ‘compiled’ by Jamyang Khyentse Chokyi Lodro in which the Buddha enjoins everyone to do this meditation throughout the period from 2026 to 2032 in order to minimize the trauma of what is happening already and will get worse over this six year period.