The ecosystem itself is precisely a unified complex organisation. Its diversity expresses unity, and the unity unfolds itself in diversity. The highest flowering of this principle of unity is consciousness, in which biology transforms itself onto another plane. John has said much of compassion. Compassion is possible only with consciousness, and in his Buddhist tradition compassion and wisdom belong completely together.
Compassion is at once a comprehension and an action.
Yet we cannot simply will to be compassionate, as many have observed in this discussion. We cannot persuade people to become compassionate. We cannot oblige a morality. And any compelled morality is a distortion. It also is blind like anger.