Is There a Difference Between Empathy and Empathy?

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I want to come back to consciousness and how it leaves the body. I was sitting with my father in the hospital University of Pennsylvania Medical School as he was dying. He was 75 and it was congestive heart failure. So I sat with him and he just kept being so frightened. And I said, so what do you think happens when you die? And he said, nothing, dirt. No, I'm a scientist. The body dies and you turn to dirt. Yes. Whereas empathy is more understanding and being non-judgment. Yeah. Being with being with being with in some deep way.

Author and Buddhist practitioner Jack Kornfield sits down for a candid, in-depth interview to help you suppress self-doubt and find inner calm. Calling on decades of experience as one of the key teachers to introduce Buddhist mindfulness practice to the West, Kornfield offers valuable insights into how to best deal with conflict and stress in your life and how to handle harmful outside influences in healthy, constructive ways. Kornfield trained as a Buddhist monk in the monasteries of Thailand, India and Burma. He has taught meditation internationally since 1974, co-founding the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Mass., and the Spirit Rock Center in Woodacre, California. His books have been translated into 20 languages and sold over a million copies.

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