What Is Compassion?

Compassion is a natural response that you experience in the face of some one's suffering, where you are able to connect with that person's experience. Ampathy is more of a rout to compassion - ampathy is closer to emotions. Experience a compassion as the action or desire, desire. So when you are in compassion, in some sense, you're no longer just in the emotional state. Emotions are meant to be fleeting and they tell us something important is happening which we should pay attention to.