Can you demonstrate empathy?

[stratford]

The ability to understand and share the feelings of another.

Many people think they are being empathetic, when really they are just making the conversation about their own experiences.

Do you feel you can truly show and express empathy in a selfless way?

[Makeushiver]

There us a woman trained in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition who writes very intelligently about empathy. Her post training name is Pema Chodron and she has numerous dharma talks about compassion. She makes some good points about empathy and identifying two opposites of it. One is hatred but another, more sinister enemy, is pity. She describes the difference as follows in paraphrased words, Pity is feeling bad about someone's plight much in the way compassion is but from the point of looking down on the person insread of compassionately comforting someone at an equal level,

[jazzy34]

Absolutely. I genuinely care about people and their well being.

[thegreenyogi]

Yes most definitely. It's probably one of my strongest traits.

[DishLady]

Yes, through active listening and responding based on the other person's experiences.

[CubaPirate]

I'd like to think so

[WhitneySnow]

I think I can

[WonderingManII]

Probably not.

[NathanDavis]

Yes.