remarkable animated essay on EMPATHY

20 10 2010

Empathy — not competition and individualism — is primary human nature.

http://www.wimp.com/empathyevolution/

This is solid science. It is Buddhadharma — that our natural uncontrived self is compassion. And it is foundational to the Judeo-Christian -Muslim tradition that we are all made in the image of the God that is love

Check out step three of the craft of compassion — radical empathy. To see through anothers eyes. http://www.gatheringin.com.

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Date : October 20, 2010
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The Craft of Compassion

The question of compassion arises whenever one chooses an authentic life. In matters of soul-making we all begin raw, but each of us can discover a life that remakes us if we do it for real. These two words, “craft” and “compassion,” then, twine into a single idea the craft of soul-making in the activity of compassion. The gesture toward a suffering being is at the same time a gesture towards one’s own awakening. This craft requires the full gamut of what one is. When one vows to learn compassion, one soon realizes one has pledged one’s whole life—from now until one’s certain death. We are forever the apprentice with regard to what we don’t yet know.

The Craft of Compassion