Empathy and Sympathy in Compassion

The sixth attribute of the compassionate person, at least from the se of tepe, is distress tolerance. We're able to resonate and maybe even feel the other persons feelings and pain and suffering. Sympathy is a kind of ling that we have in response to that. And so with that affective empathy, if a person is suffering or in pain, we feel some of that suffering and pain. It can feed into the writing reflex, that all of a sudden we are feeling distressd because we are feeling so moved by that person's position.