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How to Really Help Others and not Harm Them

We all have kind hearts, and when we see someone that we care about, we cannot help but help them.  Such compassion is a virtuous quality for having the intention to help people, even though we know that there may not be any rewards for us, direct or indirect. But we know that sometimes our help end up harming people. This is because we make them become over-dependent on us and lose their innate ability to solve their own problems.  Other than that, we often treat the symptoms of their problems and not the root cause, and this may worsen the problem.  So to really help others, we need to show them how to recognize and overcome the root cause of their problem , which is their self-centred ignorance .  This requires us to overcome our own self-centred ignorance.   Then, to inspire people to abandon their habitual self-destructive behaviour, we must be able to communicate with them. And to communicate with them, we must meet them at their own level .  As long as we retain awarenes