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Compassion And Love with Tom Cummings

Podcast Interview with Tom Cummings Hosted By: Valeria Teles Fitforjoy.org/podcast Full Interview Available on iTunes: A Quest for Well-Being Podcast Transcript: Valeria: How do you define compassion? Tom: As I understand the Buddhist definition of compassion and this is how I (have) tried to express it for myself. Compassion is not only seeing and knowing about the suffering of others but actually being moved(or) inspired, motivated to do whatever one possibly can to alleviate that suffering (and) that can take a lot of different forms. So there's really (no) set definition about here's how to be compassionate, but the main component of compassion is being moved to want to do something, whatever that might be. Valeria: What do you think the difference is between love and compassion? Tom: Love is, as I experienced something that's very directed to a particular person and in particular persons. And it's about the relationship, the give and take relationship that we have with those individuals that we love. And I don't believe we can love everybody. I don't think that's even a viable proposition to offer to the world that we should all try to love everybody. I think you know, (and) I heard recently, what someone said that really struck me was, if you're attempting to love everybody, you're alone, nobody would say love is very much wrapped up in (a) relationship with the particular people that we have, that we feel love for. And it's limited. So those relationships compassion is actually a stance, that we can take an attitude that we can take towards everyone we can have compassion, not only for the people that we're close to in our lives, we can have compassion for the strangers That we're walking past on the street or riding the subway with. We can have compassion for the barista that gives us our coffee at Starbucks. We have compassion for the refugees from Syria we can have compassion for the immigrants being separated from their families at the border. We can have compassion for the victims of floods and other natural disasters. I think there's no limit to compassion. That's how I would differentiate it from love.