Compassion
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Voice 5: Still today I pray and think about those who lost their lives, and those who gave their lives to help others, but I'm also reminded of the fabric of this country, the love, the compassIon, the strength, and I watched a nation come together in the middle of a terrible tragedy.
Emotional correctness is the tone, the feeling, how we say what we say, the respect and
compassion
we show one another.
And if we can start to find
compassion
for one another, then we have a shot at building common ground.
Our challenge is to find the
compassion
for others that we want them to have for us.
This whole finding
compassion
and common ground with your enemies thing is kind of like a political-spiritual practice for me, and I ain't the Dalai Lama.
What we've been finding across dozens of studies and thousands of participants across this country is that as a person's levels of wealth increase, their feelings of
compassion
and empathy go down, and their feelings of entitlement, of deservingness, and their ideology of self-interest increase.
After watching this video, an hour later, rich people became just as generous of their own time to help out this other person, a stranger, as someone who's poor, suggesting that these differences are not innate or categorical, but are so malleable to slight changes in people's values, and little nudges of
compassion
and bumps of empathy.
It deals with the state of compassion, unconditional
compassion.
Here, the -0.5 is the full standard deviation of a meditator who meditated on
compassion.
Now,
compassion
is supposed to be put in action.
I believe we can bend the arc of human history toward
compassion
and equality, and I also fundamentally believe and passionately believe that this violence does not have to be part of the human condition.
There is a Buddhist goddess of
compassion.
You know, I'm struck by how one of the implicit themes of TED is compassion, these very moving demonstrations we've just seen: HIV in Africa, President Clinton last night.
And I'd like to do a little collateral thinking, if you will, about
compassion
and bring it from the global level to the personal.
And the new thinking about
compassion
from social neuroscience is that our default wiring is to help.
And I think this speaks to a spectrum that goes from complete self-absorption, to noticing, to empathy and to
compassion.
It seems like we're always stuck between demonizing a species and wanting to wipe it out, and then when we get very close to doing that, empathizing with it as an underdog and wanting to show it
compassion.
Whether those animals lived or died now was entirely up to the
compassion
or the indifference of people.
We talked about the axis of creativity, and certainly that is one possibility, and now we introduce a new axis that we can call compassion, love, or empathy.
So as AI takes away the routine jobs, I like to think we can, we should and we must create jobs of
compassion.
So this is what I've dedicated my life to, to building an organization and a movement of people who believe we need to turn our backs on the failed prohibitions of the past and embrace new drug policies grounded in science, compassion, health and human rights, where people who come from across the political spectrum and every other spectrum as well, where people who love our drugs, people who hate drugs, and people who don't give a damn about drugs, but every one of us believes that this War on Drugs, this backward, heartless, disastrous War on Drugs, has got to end.
You know, it's the empathy and the
compassion
that comes out of having relationships with people who are different from you.
Just to give you an idea: this is the meditator at rest on the left, meditator in
compassion
meditation, you see all the activity, and then the control group at rest, nothing happened, in meditation, nothing happened.
He needed a breakthrough from his suffering, and he needed my
compassion.
When you're in emotional pain, treat yourself with the same
compassion
you would expect from a truly good friend.
We need to return to a long-held value of compassion,
compassion
and empathy.
Online, we've got a
compassion
deficit, an empathy crisis.
It was the
compassion
and empathy from my family, friends, professionals and sometimes even strangers that saved me.
We need to communicate online with compassion, consume news with
compassion
and click with
compassion.
Have
compassion
for yourself.
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