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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November 30th, 1987, Serial No. 00384 Consciousness, Delusion, Religion, Oneness, Subject-and-Object, Compassion, American... |
Nov 30 1987 |
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February 8th, 1987, Serial No. 00386 Buddha Nature, Intimacy, Anger, Meditation, Separation, Patience, Emotions,... |
Feb 08 1987 |
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February 5th, 1987, Serial No. 00377 Impermanence, Emotions, Separation, causation, Compassion, Consciousness, Passions,... |
Feb 05 1987 |
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December 8th, 1985, Serial No. 00165 Dragons, Transmission, Dharma Transmission, Consciousness, Patience, American,... |
Dec 08 1985 |
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December 8th, 1985, Serial No. 00166 Monastic Practice, Describe, Compassion, Meditation, Commitment, Dragons,... |
Dec 08 1985 |
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December 8th, 1985, Serial No. 00374 Compassion |
Dec 08 1985 |
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December 7th, 1985, Serial No. 00362 Oneness, Discrimination, Compassion |
Dec 07 1985 |
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December 6th, 1985, Serial No. 00167 Evil, resistance, Pain, Attachment, Consciousness, Happiness, New Year, Don't... |
Dec 06 1985 |
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December 6th, 1985, Serial No. 00371 Attachment, Compassion, New Year, Don't Know Mind, Consciousness, resistance,... |
Dec 06 1985 |
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January 14th, 1985, Serial No. 00168 Concentration, Compassion, Lay, Soto Zen, Mindfulness, Don't Know Mind,... |
Jan 14 1985 |
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1982.09.25-serial.00110 Forgiveness, Daily Life, Continuous, Concentration, Compassion, Liberation, Freedom,... |
Sep 25 1982 |
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1982.09.04-serial.00111 Compassion, Impermanence, Daily Life, resistance, Buddha Nature, Birth-and-Death,... |
Sep 04 1982 |
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1982.09.DD-serial.00101 Chanting, Emotions, confusion, Daily Life, Intimacy, Balance, Gratitude, Ego,... |
Sep 1982 |
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1982.08.17-serial.00103 Mindfulness, Daily Life, Compassion, Gratitude, difficulty, Concentration, Samadhi,... |
Aug 17 1982 |
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1982.08.16-serial.00104 Freedom, Daily Life, Liberation, Dependent Origination, Continuous, Compassion,... |
Aug 16 1982 |
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May 24th, 1982, Serial No. 00161 Liberation, Lotus Sutra, Consciousness, Soto Zen, Community, Compassion, realization... |
May 24 1982 |