Title :    Ruthless Compassion

cm:       25 x 25 x 2

inches:  10" x 10" x 0.7"

Compassion in action is the courage to do whatever is appropriate and beneficial in any given situation. Rather than being passive, benign, or even pleasant, this compassion is vivid and skilful, with the power to cut to the very root of our negative habits and emotions, to lay them bare that we might at last clearly recognize our own patterns and transcend them. This skilful precision is symbolized by the ritual 'hook-knife', and in 'Ruthless Compassion' the hook-knife is formed in the shape of a heart, its every action motivated by love.