Compassion is like a never-ending electric wave that provides a constant source of loving hot springs that warm the heart. Ironically compassion is again based precisely on the experience of suffering, and through compassion for oneself and others, recalling the nourishment of love, it binds people to each other in an atmosphere of love. Nan Dayuan, Psychiatry Department, Shanghai Mental Health Center Among the psychological therapies currently available under a wide variety of names, introspective therapy focuses on cultivating compassion in people. For example, according to the three items of internal observation therapy (e.g., 1. the kindness my mother has given me, 2. my return to my mother, and 3. the trouble I have caused my mother.) When you think of your feelings for your parents, children, etc., regardless of whether the specific thing you think of is painful or happy, through the mental transformation of the process of internal visualization therapy, you can think of the feelings of your parents, children, etc. as your own feelings, which is also the same body with great compassion. In order to achieve this state, one must first have an object of mental concentration. For example, we usually use “mother” as the object of our mental concentration. Obviously, when you start internal observation, you cannot be very focused, so you have to give yourself a chance to see how you can be mentally focused and what you can do to quiet your mind. There are many clever ideas for internal viewing settings in order to quiet the mind. So, how do you quiet the mind? First of all, with a clear mind, think of the person you love the most, and with one mind, strictly following the three items and the chronological order of the internal view, think of the love brought to you by your mother one by one, thus gradually you will feel boundless joy, and eventually everything will be satisfied as you wish. Secondly, during the time of internal observation, it is important to reduce other distracting thoughts, such as inadvertently focusing outward on the shortcomings of others or on whether the environment is to our liking, which are habitual thoughts that we take for granted in our daily lives and which in turn prevent us from deeper introspection. If there are any distracting thoughts, we should return to the inner experience in time to make our mind clear. Third, as one deepens one’s internal observation, one will be much relieved by expanding from intimacy to other spaces such as the calculation of alimony and topics such as stealing and lying, and even by internal observation of the person one resents. Fourth, the internal viewer must be compassionate to himself or herself. He or she must be happy in order to give happiness to others, and there is no one in the world who can give happiness to others when he or she is suffering. To do this, we can contemplate your favorite person, and then bring that joy and delight to a gradually deepening experience of inner contemplation, gradually bringing the same joy and delight to those around you. As the power of this contemplation of joy becomes intertwined, circulating and doubling in power, this experience of joy and delight is suddenly raised to an unprecedented state of mind, and this power, like two mirrors reflecting each other, is endless and unparalleled in its power, and you will find that your surroundings change. The environment changes, the state of mind changes, happy people and happy things increase, interpersonal relationships improve, the chance of bad karma decreases, and unintentional faults and mistakes are not committed. After a period of time, this internal observation will produce incredible results. When I examine my mind, I will find that I am happier, wiser, more at ease, more compassionate, and have more power to make things happen than I was yesterday. Through internal observation we can more easily practice looking at ourselves, just like looking in a mirror, so that “mindfulness” becomes “mind mirror. If we do not reflect and look at ourselves, it is like not using a mirror to see our own image, and no one else can see it either. As we deepen our internal observation, the mirror becomes clearer and clearer. There are many kinds of mirrors, from water to bronze mirrors; water must be clear and pure, and bronze mirrors must be sharpened to shine clearly. Therefore, if you think about yourself in the three internal view items, the water that has become muddy due to various obstacles in daily life will gradually become clear and the mind will be able to settle down. Only when the mind and water are stable can they become a mirror, and only then can we see the nature of our own mind and that of others. With faith and aspiration, the water of the mind can be clear. Sometimes it may be clear for a while and then cloudy again, which means that the attention is still unstable. But it does not matter, once it is scattered and cloudy, let it settle down and be still, and it will become clear again. In short, internal healing is, in a sense, a lifelong subject for us, which is a reflection of the saying: “Although our bodies stop growing, our minds have to continue to ‘grow'”.