Karuna, or compassion, is a state of mind/heart that can be cultivated as a practice. Compassion is an intuitive response to someone else’s suffering, or your own.

Sit quietly, evoking an image of one self or another and repeat this phrase over and over again.Allow yourself to open to the feeling.

I can feel your suffering.
May your suffering cease.

Alternate Phrase:
My heart is open to your suffering
May your suffering cease.

Expanded Version:
I can feel your suffering
May your suffering cease
May the light of love and understanding penetrate the darkness of your pain.
May your suffering cease.
May your suffering cease.

Alternate Phrases:
May the light of love and understanding penetrate (or release) the darkness of your pain (or your despair, or your regret, or your anger, or your hated.)

Match the words with what the true situation is.