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Compassion stories:
Agassi pleads for compassion
Nov 6th, 2009 - Sky Sports
Eight-time Grand Slam champion Andre Agassi has appealed for understanding following his revelation that he used crystal meth during his tennis career.
The American admitted he took the drug in 1997...Emotional Agasssi responds to book, meth use criticism
Nov 5th, 2009 - SI
NEW YORK (AP) -- Andre Agassi is responding to criticism of his crystal meth use with a plea for compassion, telling "60 Minutes" he needed help when he took the drug while depressed in 1997. Discussing his new autobiography...
Australian PM urged to show compassion to boat people
Oct 19th, 2009 - XinHua
CANBERRA Oct. 19 (Xinhua) -- The boss of the Australian Workers Union on Monday urged Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to show compassion and leadership on the asylum seeker issue. The navy intercepted another vessel off Ashmore Island on Sunday evening...
Damien sainted in soaring ceremony
Oct 11th, 2009 - The Honolulu Advertiser
ATICAN CITY ? In front of at least 20,000 people this morning in St. Peter's Basilica, Pope Benedict XVI made official what many in Hawai'i always knew ? that "Kamiano" of Moloka'i...Assisted suicide guide is a blend of protection and compassion
Sep 23rd, 2009 - Times Online
Keir Starmer has made the best of a difficult job. First, as widely trailed, he has decided that his assisted suicide guidelines must apply to England and Wales as well as to behaviour abroad...
Compassion videos from YouTube:
3:32Charter for Compassion
Closed Captioned in multiple languages!Join the world at www.charterforcompassion.org to write the Charter for Compassion. The Charter brings together the voices of people from all religions. It seeks to remind the world that while all faiths are not the same ...
10:15OSHO: Compassion - The Ultimate Flowering of Love
OSHO International Foundation - www.osho.com Osho examines the nature of compassion from a radically different perspective. He points out that "passion" lies at the root of the word, and then proceeds to challenge assumptions about what compassion really is ...
2:20Child Poverty
www.compassion.com - View this powerful video from Compassion International and educate yourself on the plight of children living in poverty around the world. ... child poverty
3:01Great Compassion Mantra
Great Compassion Mantra in Mandarin with video. I can't remember where I downloaded this from. It is a free video from some Buddhist website I think. Mantra is for protection againsts all sorts of calamities, including evil ghosts, demons etc ...
Compassion from WikiPedia:
Compassion is a human emotion prompted by enduring pain with others. More vigorous than empathy, the feeling commonly gives rise to an active desire to alleviate another's suffering. It is often, though not inevitably, the key component in what manifests in the social context as altruism. In ethical terms, the various expressions down the ages of the so-called Golden Rule embody by implication the principle of compassion: Do to others what you would have them do to you. Ranked a great virtue in numerous philosophies, compassion is considered in all the major religious traditions as among the greatest of virtues.
In the various Hindu traditions, compassion is called DAYA, and, along with charity and self-control, is one of the three central virtues.
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