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#300: Jack Kornfield - Finding Freedom, Love, and Joy in the Present

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Compassion Is Not Shut Down in Us

There's another, i guess it's a word more than a question, that i'd love to ask you to define. And that is compassion, or compassionate when you use that word or those words, what? What do you mean exactly? Or what would you like it to mean for people? Ah, i would like to distinguish compassion from empathy. A and i'll use a simple illustration. If you're on the playground and you see a kid being bully and you feel, oh, that must feel terrible. That's an empathy. An ympathy can be useful. It also can be you can get overwhelmed by ympathy if you don't know what to do with it

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