What’s Your Definition of Compassion?

WITH LOVE, DANIELLE

Danielle LaPorte

Self-improvement, Education

4.9 • 697 Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

I’ve been thinking a LOT about the concept of mercy this year. My very basic definition: Mercy is when we just wish for someone to catch a break. That simple.

Mercy is the bonus deal that comes from Compassion.

Today I’m rolling through the spiritual and practical definition of COMPASSION.

What does it look like according to the mystics, and what does it look like in our emails and our self care?

Side note: I know we’re all extra full of emotions these days. And I know giving your full attention to a podcast can seem like another thing “to-do.”

I’d love your full attention but I have another invitation: just hit play and let me roll in the background. You don’t have to “learn” or take notes. Just let this energy be your sidekick as you do what you need to do. Your subconscious self will get what it needs to get. Your conscious self will remember what you need to remember. Just breathe.

Eps 137 of WITH LOVE, DANIELLE is here to help you be Compassionate with all of it.

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0:00.0	My loves, today, we are talking about all the layers of the virtue, the soul quality known as compassion.
0:10.7	I think there's never not a good time. Is that even good grammar? It's always a good time to talk about compassion, but particularly now as people are losing their homes and their minds
0:24.1	and their livelihoods and their direction. If we can just hold each other a little more tenderly
0:30.4	for where we are on the path, whether we're on the path of destruction or infinite blessings.
0:39.4	So maybe we want to take a deep breath right now.
0:42.8	If you want, just close your eyes.
0:45.7	Let your mind drop into the center of your heart.
0:49.8	Your breathing is natural, meaning you inhale and exhale through your nose.
0:53.6	Your mouth is closed. meaning you inhale and exhale through your nose. Your mouth is closed.
0:56.0	And you feel that warmth in your heart, as the Buddhist would say, warm, friendly, and luminous.
1:05.8	It's that golden quality that is always within the body. The doorway is the heart and we just need to bring
1:14.3	our minds to it. And that's where all the compassion is. Here we go. Compassion. Compassion. Compassion,
1:24.3	compassion. Compassion is the victory of the heart.
1:28.3	Alright, so here's a mini glossary of some Buddhist terminology in perspective,
1:34.3	because we're going to be drawing a lot on Buddhist ideology for compassion.
1:38.3	Compassion is defined as the wish for all beings to be free of suffering and the causes of suffering.
1:47.1	Love that.
1:48.5	Loving kindness is the first of the four perfect virtues, quote unquote, the perfect virtues
1:56.3	or states of being.
1:58.3	So just side note, all four virtues are loving kindness, also known as
2:02.6	meta or matri. Compassion, also known as Karuna, sympathetic joy or empathy, also known as
2:12.4	Mudita and equanimity, which is also known as Ypeka, loving kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy,
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