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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 oneself 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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Insight of Buddhism

Serial: SF-01949

Date given as 1988.04.28 on cassette

Time, Compassion, Meditation
May 28 1988
San Francisco Zen Center

Yontenzot

Serial: SF-01831

"Chhoje Tulku"

Bodhisattva, Compassion, Time
Apr 24 1988
San Francisco Zen Center

Benefits of Meditation for Self and Others Serial 00004

Practice, Time, Compassion
Apr 18 1988
Tape 1

Visualization in Vajrayana Practice Serial 00005

Practice, Meditation, Compassion
Apr 16 1988
Tape 1

November 30th, 1987, Serial No. 00384

Consciousness, Delusion, Religion, Oneness, Subject-and-Object, Compassion, American...
Nov 30 1987

Sunday Lecture

Bodhisattva, Time, Compassion
Jul 25 1987
Green Gulch Farm

February 8th, 1987, Serial No. 00386

Buddha Nature, Intimacy, Anger, Meditation, Separation, Patience, Emotions,...
Feb 08 1987

February 5th, 1987, Serial No. 00377

Impermanence, Emotions, Separation, causation, Compassion, Consciousness, Passions,...
Feb 05 1987

Ascension Through Humility and Community

OSB Cam, Compassion, Patience, Pain, Daily Life, Beginners
1987
7-8 of 14

Zazen: The Essence of Non-Dualism

Dragons, Transmission, Dharma Transmission, Consciousness, Patience, American,...
Dec 08 1985

Zen Paths to Unified Insight

Monastic Practice, Compassion, Meditation, Commitment, Dragons, Concentration,...
Dec 08 1985

December 8th, 1985, Serial No. 00374

Compassion
Dec 08 1985

December 7th, 1985, Serial No. 00362

Oneness, Discrimination, Compassion
Dec 07 1985

Zen Wisdom Through Living Experience

Evil, Pain, Attachment, Consciousness, Happiness, New Year, Don't Know Mind,...
Dec 06 1985

December 6th, 1985, Serial No. 00371

Attachment, Compassion, New Year, Don't Know Mind, Consciousness, Intention,...
Dec 06 1985

Mindful Path to Infinite Truths

Concentration, Compassion, Lay, Soto Zen, Mindfulness, Don't Know Mind,...
Jan 14 1985

Reimagining Spirituality: Wisdom Meets Justice

Serial: NC-00672

Miscellaneous

Buddha, Buddhism, Politics, Intuition, Compassion
Sep 1984

Introduction to Theology

OSB Cam, Obstacles, Compassion, Instruction
Feb 1984
19 of 19
New Clairvaux Abbey

Introduction to Theology

OSB Cam, Intuition, Compassion, Interview
Feb 1984
15 of 19
New Clairvaux Abbey

Introduction to Theology

OSB Cam, Compassion, Happiness, Hindrances, War
Feb 1984
10 of 19
New Clairvaux Abbey

Introduction to Theology

Serial: NC-01112

"Task of Becoming Fully Human in a Christian Way."

OSB Cam, Anger, Compassion, Transmission
Feb 1984
14 of 19
New Clairvaux Abbey

Eucharist - Indian

Serial: NC-00447

Bede Griffiths introduces chant. Group (women and men) chanting.

OSB Cam, Offering, Enemies, Ego, Forgiveness, Compassion
Sep 11 1983
1 of 4
New Camaldoli Hermitage

Eucharist - Indian

Serial: NC-00593

Group (men and women) chanting with Indian instruments. Is this the same as NC 00447, #item-set-086?

OSB Cam, Offering, Enemies, Ego, Forgiveness, Compassion
Sep 11 1983
New Camaldoli Hermitage

Christ as Creation's Hidden Treasure

Serial: NC-00396

Monastic Theology Series Set 1 of 3

Emptiness, Breath, Compassion
Jul 13 1983

Exodus

Serial: NC-00939

Class #1 (9 Dec 82) and #2 (16 Dec 82) on the Book of Exodus.

OSB Cam, Anger, Breath, Compassion, Precepts, Ceremony
Dec 09 1982
1 of 3
New Camaldoli Hermitage

Virtues as the Foundation of Life

Serial: NC-00861

Monastic Spirituality Set 8 of 12

OSB Cam, Forgiveness, Compassion, Patience
Oct 28 1982

Building the House of Virtues

Serial: NC-00862

Monastic Spirituality Set 8 of 12

OSB Cam, Patience, Compassion, Daily Life, Fasting, Emotions
Oct 15 1982

1982.09.04-serial.00111

Compassion, Impermanence, Daily Life, Buddha Nature, Birth-and-Death, Intuition, Lay...
Sep 04 1982

The Spiritual Paradox of Truth

Serial: NC-00996

Monastic Spirituality, Set 7 of 12

OSB Cam, Anger, Demons, Fox, Forgiveness, Compassion
Jul 28 1982

Joyful Embrace of Zen Wisdom

Liberation, Lotus Sutra, Consciousness, Soto Zen, Community, Compassion, Realization...
May 24 1982

Eternal Wisdom in Impermanent Reality

Impermanence, Nirvana, Birth-and-Death, difficulty, Buddha Mind, Emotions, Buddha...
May 07 1982

Embracing Bodhisattva Challenges with Compassion

Lotus Sutra, Intimacy, Compassion, difficulty, Evil, Discrimination, Offering,...
Apr 23 1982

Transformative Enlightenment and Equality

Repentance, Dragons, Lotus Sutra, Offering, Compassion, Hindrances, Don't Know...
Apr 12 1982

Enlightenment: Personal Realization, Communal Validation

Transmission, Lotus Sutra, Buddha Nature, Dharma Transmission, Buddha Mind, Patience...
Mar 19 1982

Eternal Light and Timeless Liberation

Buddha Nature, Buddha Mind, Perfect Wisdom, Nirvana, Liberation, Compassion,...
Mar 12 1982

Predictive Pathways to Enlightenment

Buddha Nature, Compassion, Suffering, Meditation, Evil, Funeral, Precepts, Silence,...
Mar 08 1982

Journey to the Magic City Within

causation, Impermanence, Consciousness, Compassion, Evil, Politics, Separation,...
Mar 01 1982

Embracing Imperfection in Monastic Unity

Serial: NC-00877

Monastic Spirituality Set 3 of 12

OSB Cam, Commitment, Vow, Happiness, Liberation, Compassion
May 13 1981

February 8th, 1981, Serial No. 00400

Compassion, Concentration, Beginners, Delusion, American, Nirvana, Pain
Feb 08 1981

February 4th, 1981, Serial No. 00397

Continuous Practice, Impermanence, Compassion, Silence, Realization, Building, Bell,...
Feb 04 1981

Chastity: The Spiritual Path to Love

Serial: NC-00858

Monastic Spirituality Set 9 of 12

OSB Cam, Vow, Ego, Compassion, Cultivation, Anger
Nov 14 1980

Everyday Zazen: Mindful Living Art

Breath, Posture, Compassion, Discrimination, Meditation, causation, American,...
Dec 21 1979

Compassion in Adversity

Time, Compassion, Practice
Oct 01 1979

Cultivating Wisdom Through Zen Practice

Greed, Evil, Realization, Commitment, Beginners, Anger, Community, Discrimination,...
Mar 09 1979

Serenity Through Minimal Desire

Silence, Building, Balance, Compassion, Suffering, Enemies, Culture, Breath, Religion...
Mar 05 1979

Contentment in Simplicity: The Zen Path

Silence, Compassion, Building, Balance, Culture, Breath, Religion, Suffering...
Mar 05 1979

Riding Beyond Desires to Freedom

Eight Awarenesses, Suffering, Consciousness, Anger, Humility, Compassion, Pain,...
Mar 02 1979

Awakening Through Dharma Transmission

Eight Awarenesses, Compassion, Balance, Posture, Consciousness, Nirvana, Evil,...
Feb 26 1979

Awakening Through Zen Integration

Compassion, Eight Awarenesses, Posture, Consciousness, Balance, Evil, Mahayana,...
Feb 26 1979

Becoming Zen: Path to Ego-Free Harmony

Compassion, Fox, causation, Anger, Teacher-and-Student, Buddha Nature, Realization,...
Sep 01 1977

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