Compassion is no longer moral heroism.

It is simple intelligence.

Ethics stop being rules.

They become inevitabilities.

This is why enlightenment is not an individual achievement.

It is a relational realization.

You wake up with the world, or not at all.

Buddhism teaches that because nothing exists independently, nothing can be blamed independently either.

Suffering is not a personal failure. It is a collective event.

When one being hurts, the whole web trembles.