What Is Compassion and How Did It Become a Primary Focus?

How did compassion first become a primary focus of yours, and what is it? How do you think about it as a mental state and capacity? Well, on some level, i it was always there. I just didn'tn quite understand what it meant. And o interestingly, when i initially talked to my colleagues at stanford in psychology and nero science, actually, i was told that the academic exploration of compassion was a dead end. But over time, this idea of the importance of compassion, combined with our already significant interest in mindfulness practices, really is one of the things that are at the forefront....