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| Jul 11, 2023 at 14:33 | comment | added | Cdn_Dev | My personal experience is that I have a 'deep awareness of the suffering of others and the wish to relieve it', most of the time. IMO, after a deep understanding of Buddhism this mindset can become a common, everyday thing. But the quandary is that others don't share this experience. At some point we hit on the problem that, while we want to relieve others suffering, others typically don't care about our suffering. | |
| Jul 11, 2023 at 2:00 | comment | added | user13375 | This is true. Even more troublesome from my perspective is that in western society we often conflate compassion with empathy when they are very different things and one can often impede the other. | |
| Jul 11, 2023 at 0:27 | history | answered | Dhamma Dhatu | CC BY-SA 4.0 |