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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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Embrace Presence: Living Now with Compassion Time, Love, Compassion |
Dec 13 2002 City Center |
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The Mark of ImpermanenceSerial: SF-03980 Sunday Lecture: the mark of impermanence is expressed in many ways - everything changes, nothing remains the same Time, Impermanence, Compassion |
Mar 01 1998 Green Gulch |
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Jizo BodhisattvaSerial: SF-04001 Sunday Lecture - Includes Q&A and discussion Time, Practice, Compassion |
Jun 11 1995 Green Gulch |
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Dzögchen TeachingsSerial: SF-02718 Commercially produced cassette Emptiness, Compassion, Practice |
Oct 08 1989 San Jose |
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Insight of BuddhismSerial: SF-01949 Date given as 1988.04.28 on cassette Time, Compassion, Meditation |
May 28 1988 SFZC |
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YontenzotSerial: SF-01831 "Chhoje Tulku" Bodhisattva, Compassion, Time |
Apr 24 1988 SFZC |
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Sunday Lecture Bodhisattva, Time, Compassion |
Jul 25 1987 Green Gulch |
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Shosan CeremonyShosan, First Principle, Emptiness, Compassion, Lotus Sutra, Patience, sitting,... |
Nov 11 1968 Tassajara |
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Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-12Serial: SR-00004 Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. 12 October 1968 Lotus Sutra, First Principle, Suffering, Observe, Compassion, Intention, heart,... |
Oct 1968 Series 2, Talk 12 Tassajara |
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Radiant Transformation through Divine Service Love, Compassion, Time |
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Transformation of Consciousness Compassion, Love, Karma |
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Transformation of ConsciousnessSerial: SF-02707 Final One Compassion, Time, Work |
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