Why compassion matters

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What is Compassion Matters? Compassion Matters. Why Compassion? Why Compassion Matters? The Dalai Lama Centre launched Compassion Matters to address several urgent issues and challenges by: Placing compassion at the heart of education enables children and teachers to explore compassionate thinking and actions.

Developing high-quality learning materials that are universally available to all. Enabling children to develop increased understanding and awareness of themselves and their relationship with others, their community and the world they live in.

Supporting children to develop tangible and transferable skills such as critical and responsible decision-making enhances their learning in and out of the classroom. And then we analyze how our actions affect the well-being and suffering of others, and on the basis of that, determine to adopt those behaviors that benefit others and to abandon those that cause harm.

He is making the case that compassion is good for you. The first beneficiary of a compassionate act is yourself. Whether that act or feeling really benefits the object of your compassion depends on many other factors.

Sometimes you extend the hand and the other person might not take it, but on your part, you have already experienced that expansiveness and openness. These include expressing affection, modeling altruistic behavior, making children aware of the impact of their actions, and providing them with opportunities to be useful to others. Practices like loving-kindness meditation also help children build empathetic concern for others, including those not like them, over time.

This is not a matter for complicated theorizing. It is a matter of common sense…. We can reject everything else: religion, ideology, all received wisdom.

But we cannot escape the necessity of love and compassion. Is compassion really malleable and measureable? Additionally, might compassion training work by increasing the self-similarity between oneself and another who is suffering? Researchers invited participants into a laboratory where they were told stories and shown pictures of homeless or severely ill children, recounted Dimidjian.