Do you agree that, Understanding others through our own character defects, is how we gain compassion?

i think that compassion is learned from someone who has compassion.

"You must find a wise man with God’s qualities and learn from him."

http://www.bmf.org/wisdom/insan.html

good luck...

having compassion is a very noble quality.

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That may be how we gain empathy or sympathy, but compassion, I believe, comes from another place. For instance, I can't think of what character defect would cause me to feel compassion for a starving child in Africa.

From my experience, I may feel compassion for one thing and you another. But is as thought God (or evolution, if you prefer) has programmed each of us to feel a certain way about certain things. Some people love animals with all of their hearts--would literally die to save an animals life. Others feel deep compassion for children in peril. It is my thinking that God/evolution has outfitted each human with a unique "compassion button" that, when triggered, will cause you to act in a way you would not normally act--all in order to help the situation. It may be nothing more than pray, or put some money in a Salvation Army pot, but it is doing something you might nor normally do.

Now, why do each of us have a unique button? Perhaps for the same reason that some animals like bugs, and some like leaves. You are part of an "ecosystem" (so to speak). Your job is, when something in that system is in trouble, to feel a certain way and respond.

If you act on the compassion you feel, and I act on the compassion I feel, then, together, perhaps all the things that need to be done will be done.

That's one way...still, others tend to 'feel' more compassionate than others,

Compassion comes from a variety of things...how much emotion a person experiences, how much knowledge they have about their own strengths/flaws, how much a person knows about the subject at hand

I do that because I am a narcissist. Is everybody a narcissist? Is egotism the only way humans develop compassion? I hope not.

I think it is a way to better appreciate the experiences and chooses of others, but I have experienced compassion without relating to the experience. "Aware" is a good word for it, Cosmic.

i like your question - that's fairly exciting. i like Blake's quote - that he ought to create. I write poetry and that i continuously think of of my poems as my creations. i think of whilst Blake wrote "i won't be in a position to reason and evaluate; my business enterprise is to Create", he's in basic terms announcing that he will create something new in accordance to his perspectives and not think of approximately the way it fits in with the different structures. he's in basic terms going his own way - to the beat of a diverse drum. I additionally like Hermann Hesse's quote - that we've the genuine international interior us - honestly in Judaism - each and each human existence is seen a separate international - consequently there is the quote that in case you hold a existence (individual) that's the comparable as saving the international. i think of those are effective insights and rates and that i've got not got any subject incorporating them into my questioning. the terrific element all people can do is keep an open techniques and learn - existence is a experience and discovering is the biggest element.

compassion is the ability to feel what someone else is feeling - imo it is no more then a state of awareness - we are all capable of compassion however few are aware enough to experience it.

Not only by understanding the character defects we have, but also those we don't have. It is necessary to be humble, that means with no ego.

Peace!

...disagree, hardly know myself and distrust others too...thanks for asking...

agree for sure!