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Question of the Week: Compassion

What does compassion mean to you and how are you practicing compassion in your life?

I attended 2 talks today by the Dalai Lama. He was speaking on Compassion. Coincidence? Compassion to me is ensuring that cancer patients in end of life are comfortable, know that they are loved and at peace with the next phase of life.

– Kelly Schlieder,question of the week drawing winner

What other posters had to say:

Compassion in my life is being vegan ~ Respecting all life

Compassion to me means giving up every evening to sit at the hospital with my mom....even when she is so out of it that she thinks that staff are trying to hurt her...rather than help her heal...

cultivating courage and awareness in spite of suffering. Recognizing that all beings, including me experience the same/similar feelings including fear and sadness, joy and anger. In a moment of strong feeling working on sending the joy I am feeling out into the world and sending positive thoughts to alleviate suffering in hard times.

Compassion is taking the time to make sure someone else is treated with dignity and respect. Compassion reminds us that we're human.

I am not looking for any win, but just interested in trying to answer that question. I would just like to share a recent experience in which compassion was not just an Individual feeling or wish. It was about a difficult situation in which a person, very valuable but also very EGO centered, was disturbing a collective boddy of good willing and involved people involved in a innovative alternative project. This person showed lots of autoritarism, dryness... and the group reacted with lots of compassion and sincerity, we are all ready to help this person to overcome her Ego, because she is willing to, and we know our collective preject relies on our ability to deal with such complex situation. Hope it is clear enough to be understood

right now, compassion is something i need to turn off. A situation that you can do nothing about.....and your compassion is overwhelming. But you need to stop it. So right now, at this moment in my life, compassion is hurting me.

I teach Middle School. Failing to practice compassion= failing to connect= failing to teach.

I practice compassion by trying not to judge others because I never know what's going on in their lives. Perhaps they were just diagnosed with cancer, going through a divorce, just lost a loved one, got laid off ~ I never know without walking in their shoes. Best to try not to judge, but it can be a challenge.

Compassion is stepping into the lives of others and seeing who they are, their challenges and their joys, without judgement. And then being willing to set aside your own agenda and your own notions, to do able to just feel for moment what it would be like to live with another's hardship. And then do do what needs to be done to help. Hopefully it simply becomes reflexive.

Compassion to me is loving and being gentle with yourself and others... I am currently practicing self-compassion in order to heal and grow emotionally, which is vital in order to nurture other relationships and be compassionate with others smile

Compassion is thinking from my heart, not my brain and emotions. It is unconditional love and understanding, and forgiveness of faults. It is an essential part of human life on this Earth!

I feel compassion is finding peace or extending kindness through understanding & empathy. I'm working on nurturing compassion with myself during this tragic year.

Compassion means understanding that there is always a reason why people behave and believe what they do. I coach many clients (Life Coach) out of pain by helping them realize that situations are often not personal, it is just the pain of another that is being manifested outward. Compassion is overlooking their pain and treating them as you would want to be treated; with love.

compassion to me is treating EVERYONE like you would your lover or Mother. Living and acting from your heart and treating and speaking with only LOVE! heart

Compassion - Compassion helps ease an aging parent from pain. Compassion gives back the love that they gave you. Compassion is a gift to give to your children, and have them share it with all. Compassion is opening your heart to a friend in need, and not ask for anything in return.

compassion: openness and honesty in all your encounters no matter the situation. Being available with an open heart, open ears, and an open mind. No one is any better or any worse than I am and I try to honor, listen, and touch every one I encounter. We all deserve pure presence and compassion as we are all here for the same reason: to live, die, learn, love, and be loved.

compassion first begins with Self..one cannot be compassionate without..looking within. Compassionate is the wonder of being in this life, body, mind, spirit and soul...and taking all this feeling of wonderment, joy...humility grace,strength, and LOVE...to ea and every BEING on this Planet Earth. Being..includes the very air...we breathe...to the finely tuned words we speak...to others, animals, plants, Stone Nations..etc. Namaste

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