You cannot instill compassion in anybody. It is not something we can instill in the other person. Compassion is your choice. It is not the nature, behavior or the conduct of the other person. What the other person chooses is up to them, compassion is your choice. More often people are selective with their compassion. When you are selective it is not really compassion. If you are choosing that I will be compassionate towards this person but I am just going to walk away from other person, then it is really not compassion. It is something you are doing nice out of sense of attachment, out of some preferential treatment.
People who you think don't deserve your compassion, needed the most. That is what makes this most challenging because it is not based on what the other person deserves but it is based on what they need. If it really comes down to that who is to judge that who deserves compassion and who does not.
Listen to this discourse by Om Swami to find out more.
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