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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 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

The Mark of Impermanence

Serial: 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

Jizo Bodhisattva

Serial: SF-04001

Sunday Lecture - Includes Q&A and discussion

Time, Practice, Compassion
Jun 11 1995
Green Gulch

Dzögchen Teachings

Serial: SF-02718

Commercially produced cassette

Emptiness, Compassion, Practice
Oct 08 1989
San Jose

Insight of Buddhism

Serial: SF-01949

Date given as 1988.04.28 on cassette

Time, Compassion, Meditation
May 28 1988
SFZC

Yontenzot

Serial: SF-01831

"Chhoje Tulku"

Bodhisattva, Compassion, Time
Apr 24 1988
SFZC

Sunday Lecture

Bodhisattva, Time, Compassion
Jul 25 1987
Green Gulch

Shosan Ceremony

Shosan, First Principle, Emptiness, Compassion, Lotus Sutra, Patience, sitting,...
Nov 11 1968
Tassajara

Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-12

Serial: SR-00004

Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. 12
Shunryu Suzuki Lecture

October 1968

Lotus Sutra, First Principle, Suffering, Observe, Compassion, Intention, heart,...
Oct 1968
Series 2, Talk 12
Tassajara

Radiant Transformation through Divine Service

Love, Compassion, Time
City Center

Transformation of Consciousness

Compassion, Love, Karma
Unknown

Transformation of Consciousness

Serial: SF-02707

Final One

Compassion, Time, Work
Unknown