On the surface, Krishnamurti states that genuine compassion is not about feeling pity or sorrow for someone's misfortune. Pity implies a separation, a sense of superiority from which one looks down upon another. It’s an emotional reaction rooted in a perceived difference.

However, the deeper, non-dual implication is that true compassion arises from a direct, unmediated understanding of the interconnectedness of all things. In Krishnamurti's view, which often challenged traditional spiritual frameworks, this understanding dissolves the illusion of the separate self. When the 'I' that pities is seen through, what remains is an awareness of shared existence, a recognition that the suffering of another is, in a fundamental sense, your own suffering. This isn't an intellectual concept but a lived realization, akin to the Buddhist understanding of *anatta* (no-self) or the Advaita Vedanta insight that all is Brahman. It's seeing the universal pattern of suffering and ignorance without the filter of personal identification or judgment.

In your life: When you witness someone struggling, try to observe the situation and their reaction without immediately labeling it as 'their problem' or feeling a sense of distance. See if you can recognize the shared human condition in their experience.