Compassion Talks
Compassion is a social feeling that motivates people to go out of their way to relieve the physical, mental, or emotional pains of others and themselves. Compassion is sensitivity to the emotional aspects of the suffering of others. When based on notions such as fairness, justice, and interdependence, it may be considered partially rational in nature.
Compassion involves "feeling for another" and is a precursor to empathy, the "feeling as another" capacity (as opposed to sympathy, the "feeling towards another"). In common parlance, active compassion is the desire to alleviate another's suffering.
Compassion involves allowing ourselves to be moved by suffering to help alleviate and prevent it. An act of compassion is one that is intended to be helpful. Other virtues that harmonize with compassion include patience, wisdom, kindness, perseverance, warmth, and resolve. It is often, though not inevitably, the key component in altruism. The difference between sympathy and compassion is that the former responds to others' suffering with sorrow and concern whereas the latter responds with warmth and care. An article in Clinical Psychology Review suggests that "compassion consists of three facets: noticing, feeling, and responding".
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2008.01.20-serial.00112D training, Buddha Nature, Impermanence, Daily Life, soto, Repentance, Meditation, Vows... |
Jan 20 2008 |
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2008.01.19-serial.00112A Fasting, zen, Culture, Impermanence, soto, Meditation, Vows, Compassion |
Jan 19 2008 |
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2007.01.17-serial.00116H Lay, Offering, Monastic Practice, Funeral, Meditation, Continuous, Compassion,... |
Jan 17 2007 |
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2007.01.16-serial.00116G Teacher-and-Student, Vows, Buddha Ancestors, Buddha Mind, Family Practice,... |
Jan 16 2007 |
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2007.01.13-serial.00116A Dependent Origination, Daily Life, Don't Know Mind, Greed, Posture, lecture,... |
Jan 13 2007 |
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2006.02.01-serial.00004 Demons, Compassion, Dragons, Balance, Vows, Buddha Mind, difficulty, Offering,... |
Feb 01 2006 |