It has become clear that compassion is a mixture of love (overflowing gratitude) and sadness. Through meditation, this understanding is captured on a two-dimensional axis of "love based on gratitude" and "expansion."

First, love begins from the root of one's own heart. Initially, it is an individual feeling, but gradually it expands to encompass the surrounding space and the region where one lives. In this process, one also becomes aware of the sadness of the entire Earth. At this time, one's own love and gratitude mix with the Earth's sadness, and this forms the shape of compassion.

Love does not simply expand; it expands while intersecting with things in the space. Currently, the Earth is covered in a devastated sadness, so by feeling that sadness and extending one's own love, compassion is born.

Compassion arises from the feeling that it exists in all spaces that have a fundamental commonality. It is formed by the expansion of love and gratitude, and by mixing with the sadness of the Earth and the region.

There is a similar word, "compassionate love," but "compassionate love" is love accompanied by gratitude, and does not include sadness. This also has the meaning of, from a more personal perspective, that the increase in love in individual beings leads to self-love.

However, eventually, that love will spread further, and you will be able to feel a little of the Earth's aura. I realized that the Earth is full of sadness, and while I feel compassion as an individual, when I look at the region, it seems that compassion might be the appropriate term.

However, I think that this is just a difference in perspective, and perhaps there isn't that much difference between the two.

As an additional note, I found an opinion that "compassion is a Buddhist term, while love is a Christian term," and I think that opinion makes sense.