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Social justice advocates from in and around Dallas joined together this weekend to march with MFA at the city's annual Gay Pride Parade, waving flags, passing out pro-vegan literature, and holding a banner declaring, "No one is free when others are oppressed." 
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The Union of Compassion and Wisdom A common saying in Buddhism,
A common saying in Buddhism, "to develop and practise both compassion and wisdom," indicates that compassion and wisdom are inseparable and integral elements of the path of Buddha Dharma. The contents and functions of 'loving kindness and compassion' are similar to those of 'benevolence' in Chinese thought, and of 'love' in Western philosophy. However, loving kindness and compassion do not entirely and exclusively consist of sympathy and caring. They must also move in parallel with the Truth. Therefore, boundless compassion cannot be accomplished without wisdom.
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An interview of Dr Paul Ekman by young people for young people. This video is the fourth of five extracts designed to support debates in schools or youth clubs on empathy, altruism and compassion.
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Plitzer interrupted: “But Congressman, are you saying that society should just let him die?”There were enthusiastic shouts of “Yeah!” from the crowd. You’d think one of the other candidates might jump in with a word about Christian kindness. Not a peep.
They betrayed no empathy for, or even curiosity about, the Americans who depend on the spending that would be cut. They had no kind words — in fact, no words at all — for teachers, firefighters and police officers who will lose their jobs unless cash-strapped state and local government receive federal aid.
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Low point of the CNN/Tea Party debate has to be when the GOP audience cheered and screamed "Yeah!" when crank Ron Paul suggested letting the uninsured die because "that's what freedom's all about." Runner-up: When they booed him for suggesting not all Muslims are terrorists and 9/11 might actually sort of have something to do with U.S. actions.
This and the last debate's cheering of Texas' body count makes us hurt. And leaves us speechless, except for asking an absurdly inadequate question: Who are these people?
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Founder: The Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education
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PLAYBOY: What is the place of compassion in your philosophical system?
RAND: I regard compassion as proper only toward those who are innocent victims, but not toward those who are morally guilty. If one feels compassion for the victims of a concentration camp, one cannot feel it for the torturers. If one does feel compassion for the torturers, it is an act of moral treason toward the victims.
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The Washington National Cathedral finds itself embroiled in controversy over a special service it is hosting this upcoming weekend to commemorate the 10th anniversary of 9/11.
President Obama will be on hand for the Cathedral’s “Call to Compassion,” as will a bishop, a rabbi, a Tibetan lama, a Buddhist nun, representatives of the Hindu and Jain faiths, an imam and an Islamic musician. However, the guest list does not include a representative of the evangelical community.
By Amanda Winkler
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Practicing compassion results in physical, emotional, and spiritual benefits.
Practice forgiveness and empathy for your enemy: Perhaps the most difficult component of compassion is finding a way to extend it to everyone, including those who have mistreated you. You may think that only a spiritual master such as the Dalai Lama can achieve this level of compassion, but you may surprise yourself. Try this: when faced with anger or conflict, withdraw. ...Try to imagine the suffering that may have led to their mistreatment of you. Practice empathy for the person and imagine relief of their suffering.
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I don’t want to be helpless and dependent. It’s that simple. Being that way and getting lots of compassion doesn’t make it better, it makes it worse. It just underlines the helplessness and dependency.
Compassion is a very over-rated virtue. It’s good in emergencies, to motivate people to act, and that includes slow-motion emergencies like chronic poverty and underdevelopment and exploitation. But it’s lousy as a permanent fixture, and it’s nightmarish as a reason to keep people alive who would prefer to escape precisely the condition that is the object of compassion.
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What is it to be compassionate? Please find out for yourself, feel it out, whether a mind that is hurt, that can be hurt, can ever forgive. Can a mind that is capable of being hurt, ever forgive? And can such a mind which is capable of being hurt, which is cultivating virtue, which is conscious of generosity, can such a mind be compassionate?
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In 2012, the Assemblies of God is launching the year of compassion. To equip churches, ministries and individuals to better understand and meet the growing opportunities for compassion ministry, the Greater Things Compassion Conference will be held February 21-23, 2012, at Healing Place Church in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
This unique compassion-training event features a coalition of compassion ministries, from across the United States, joining together to share the wealth of knowledge they have gathered through their years of successful compassion ministry.
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2012 Republican primary debate 9/7/2011 - Ron Paul makes a point that states do have a right to provide some welfare to people in need but the Federal Government does not. Ron Paul says that believing in liberty doesn't mean you lack compassion. Those that believe in liberty believe wealth does not come from the Government but from free markets.
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Dr. Grace tells a story from her own upbringing in a church that insisted on religionism over compassion, and a story from Jewish mystic, the Baal Shem Tov. From “Exploring Compassion DVD”
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During the Tea Party/CNN depate, Wolf Blitzer asked if “society should let the uninsured die.” The shouts of “yeah” from the audience has perennially outraged leftists, well, outraged. Here is the question. ....
The left is making hay. What are we to make of it?
by R.D. Walker
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"Is this what compassion is all about? Creating a system in which people can take irresponsible risks safe in the knowledge that their neighbors will be forced to pay if the rolling dice come up snake eyes?" Hmmm. Sounds like the federal bail-out of the risk takers on Wall Street falls into that category, too. Strangely that connection is absent from the article... Instead, they seem to suggest that forcing someone to gamble on their life is compassionate...
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Academic and author Oren Harman reveals the extraordinary discoveries of George Price -- the eccentric genius who strove to understand evolution's greatest riddle: altruism.
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Creating a Mindful Society—Event Details September 30–October 1, 2011 Whether your interest is applying mindfulness at home, in your work, for better health, or simply to make your life more joyful and awake, you will benefit from this groundbreaking conference on changing lives and creating a mindful society.
From the opening keynote talk by mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) founder Jon Kabat-Zinn to the closing Mindfulness Town Hall, you will practice, experience, and learn about the transformative power of mindfulness and the emerging mindfulness community, all in a warm, contemplative atmosphere.
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In memory of the 10th anniversary of the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, several memorial events were held in Manchester, including a dedication at the Manchester Firefighters Memorial Garden, a piano and organ concert at Cheney Hall, a blood drive sponsored by the Eighth Utilities, and a community gathering for “Compassion Beyond Crisis” at Center Memorial Park in the evening.
By Martha Marteney
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Seeds of the Compassionate Action Network
Anchored by His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and other luminaries, this community-focused event celebrated and explored the relationships, programs, and tools that nurture and empower children, families and communities to be compassionate members of society. Each of the five days provided attendees an opportunity to better understand the real benefits of compassion, and concrete steps on how to bring compassion into their lives.
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To turn from anger to compassion is a bold step.
For men, so it seems, anger can be a particular problem. Some men feel that anger is the only emotion they are allowed to express....
Compassion, on the other hand, is an expensive emotion. It rarely appears spontaneously. In fact we need to work hard to develop compassion for others. We cannot take it for granted. This is especially the case if we are caught up in our anger almost all of the time. In fact cultivating compassion, a sympathetic understanding of another person's situation, allows other more refined emotions to develop, like care, love and even joy.
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Think about Compassionate Action Network as the "sprouts of compassion." Compassion is much more than feelings of empathy toward others. Compassion is an entirely different way of acting. CAN aims to focus attention on what we do in the world, in all of our institutions – schools, families, neighborhoods, foundations, community organizations and other nonprofits, small businesses and corporations, hospitals, unions and professional associations, prisons and halfway houses, faith and spiritual communities, government (city councils, state legislatures and legislators, Congress and national lawmakers), and the military – to adopt and promote compassion as our guiding principle.
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Most people would agree that having a compassionate stance towards oneself is desirable, yet exactly how to go about cultivating such a stance is less clear. Before discussing how to cultivate compassion, let’s quickly define the term. In this article, compassion is defined as: a recognition of pain/distress coupled with a tenderheartedness towards the distress and a tendency to pull alongside the suffering with a proclivity to alleviate it.
Each component of this definition – recognition, tenderheartedness, pulling alongside of and a proclivity to alleviate – offers opportunities for cultivating compassion. This article will look at how the skill of recognizing can help you grow self-compassion. By Susanne M. Dillmann,
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In his second sermon in the Compassion series, Rev Dr Straube encourages us to look for the source of compassion in our own lives and communities.
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