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From Appeasement to Compassionate Integrity
Me: “Lisa, in the blog >‘Appeasement?<,’ you gave a few guidelines that may help us, humans, use Compassion in order to diminish negative appeasement. Please expand upon your guidelines.” Lisa: “Of course. Each of these is not a fixed rule but an invitation — a gesture toward presence and inner strength. They’re not meant to Read the full article…
Compassion = Total-Person Empathy
The first (but not exclusive) dictionary meaning of compassion in the West is pity. I use Compassion to mean Total-Person Empathy, a far more accurate interpretation. — In Eastern traditions, Compassion similarly aligns with Total-Person Empathy. I capitalize Compassion consistently to emphasize the inherent worth of the whole person. See also Compassion, Basically. Total person Read the full article…
Landscape of Empathy
This drawing is an attempt to make appropriate distinctions in a complex reality around ‘empathy’. Terms that are used to point towards the distinct parts – as always – contain arbitrariness. Disclaimer Please take this with a grain of salt. The drawing is a metaphor to make some things clear while other important distinctions are Read the full article…