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  • is known as the bodhisattva of infinite compassion in East Asian Buddhism ... considered to be the personification of compassion and kindness, and these ...
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  • the name of Amida). Through Amida's compassion, the religious sect believed ... in the nembutsu. Through Amida's compassion, a being may be reborn ...
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  • its universalistic message of God's compassion for Israel's enemies ... call. Its message of God's compassion for the people of Nineveh ...
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  • iconography. Known as a Bodhisattva of compassion, as well as a tantric deity ... outer, inner, and secret teachings about compassion, mercy, and emptiness. ...
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  • (Chenrezig, the bodhisattva of compassion, and the patron of the ... Traditionally, prayer flags are used to promote peace, compassion ...
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  • Buddha is seen as a personification of Compassion (balanced by Wisdom), Vairocana ... appeared which represented wisdom and compassion—they were, respectively ...
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  • Guān Yīn) is the bodhisattva of compassion venerated by East Asian ... refers to the power of wisdom and compassion made manifest in Amida ...
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  • :"For a brief moment I abandoned you, but with deep compassion ... :but with everlasting kindness I will have compassion on you," ...
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  • if one acts from the motivations of compassion, wisdom, and generosity ... to perform every deed motivated by compassion for all beings. ...
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  • who stressed the values of filial piety, compassion, respect, sincerity, and ... that women usually lack such virtues as compassion and honesty, he argued ...
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  • ===Self-compassion=== Self-compassion Compassion can be defined as experiencing kindness, a sense of common ...
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  • people's hearts with empathy and compassion for those who might otherwise ... world, moving people's hearts with compassion for those who might otherwise ...
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  • the cultivation of Buddhist wisdom and compassion, as well as their actualization ... Bodhisattvas are known for embodying compassion. They take the "Bodhisattva ...
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  • mudras symbolize the unity of wisdom and compassion, male and female, and are ... The Varada Mudrā signifies offering, welcome, charity, giving, compassion ...
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  • and is President of the World Centers of Compassion for Children International ... working through the World Centers of Compassion for Children and the Mothers ...
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  • wound of contrition, the wound of compassion, and the wound of longing ... of God's love in terms of joy and compassion as opposed to law and duty ...
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  • of developing the truly altruistic compassion that is requisite to becoming ... Amida to be the Dharmakaya itself, manifested as compassion. ...
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  • would have a feeling of alarm and compassion – not because one sought ... potential. Humans all have the heart of compassion. Humans all have the heart ...
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  • On the other hand, her feminine compassion earned her a reputation ... his 100 km² (40 mi²) estate with compassion. During the Irish Famine ...
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  • Shapiro was motivated by his compassion for fellow human beings, and ... by your hatred of injustice and your compassion for its victims." ...
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  • other gods' disapproval by showing compassion for those treated unfairly ... to the world. He is the mediator whose compassion and sense of humor breaks ...
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  • my heart yearns for him; I have great compassion for him," declares ... God's compassion for his people to be so intense as to cause ...
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  • the female principle representing compassion. Their interaction leads to enlightenment. In addition, the Vajra represents "Upaya" ...
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  • :That sues for no compassion. : :Silence in love bewrays more woe ... :And sues for no compassion. Raleigh's poetry is rather scant ...
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  • believing that through empathy and compassion human beings can rise above ... with the Talmud's messages of compassion, redemption, and messianic hope. ...
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  • where he was: and when he saw him, he had compassion on him, ... by Jesus in order to illustrate that compassion should be for all people ...
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  • characterized by patience, civility, and compassion for his fellow man, including ... and gentleness of spirit, and his compassion for the poor. This has ...
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  • but to get their audiences to feel compassion for them. ... " Foster meant "to engender compassion.") Foster also began ...
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  • both to have a career and to exercise compassion and care. ... optimum example for nurses everywhere of compassion, commitment to patient ...
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  • Philemon, speaking of Philemon's Christian compassion. However, at the same time, Paul reminds Philemon of Paul's authority over him, for Philemon ...
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  • patients, being “endowed with no less compassion and love than God extends ... physician must be endowed with no less compassion and love than God extends ...
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  • These world-renowned teachings encourage compassion towards all beings, the ... which is generally translated as "compassion" and is somewhat akin ...
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  • Compassion and sympathy are terms associated with empathy. A person ... Empathic concern is evidenced as sympathy and compassion for others ...
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  • She is remembered for her speeches in Hindi, which were full of compassion ... Some see her agony, anguish, and compassion, as artificial. Moral critics ...
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  • to those who may be led astray—some by means of compassion, but some "with fear." He closes with a salute to "him that is able to keep ...
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  • Buddha also associated conscience with compassion for those who must endure ... hunger, thirst, and other bodily needs, compassion, love, and hate; secondly ...
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  • idolatry." They must also show kindness and compassion toward one another: "Forgive as the Lord forgave you." Their lives should be filled ...
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  • usually involves tremendous power and compassion along with primacy in the physical and spiritual realms. That which is divine is usually thought ...
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  • The Bodhisattva of Perfect Compassion Hall (Gwaneumjeon). The pavilion enshrining Avalokitesvara, the Bodhisattva of Perfect Compassion, is located ...
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  • Increasing education, awareness, and compassion have reduced dowry practice. In some areas, notably West Bengal, it has virtually been wiped ...
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  • a little more reason, and a little more compassion into world affairs, and thereby to increase the chance that nations will learn at last to ...
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  • kindness or benevolence), karuṇā (compassion), mudita (sympathetic joy ... 67th chapter of Dao De Jing: ci (慈; compassion), jian (儉; frugality ...
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  • while others believed they should be shown compassion after a period of penance. Meanwhile some of the lapsed, themselves, loudly demanded that they ...
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  • (especially those of affection, intimacy, compassion, appreciation, and general "liking") rather than sexual pleasure. But, romantic ...
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  • of all beings who cares for everyone with great compassion. Such language has deep resonances in other religions, that also describe a Father figure ...
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  • regarded as representative of feminine compassion, although there are no ... can be considered feminine qualities of compassion towards those on the margins ...
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  • There was no choice." A person of compassion and decency simply has ... by the Schindler-Jews for her sacrifice and compassion. ...
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  • 14th incarnation of the Bodhisattva of Compassion. Tibetan Buddhists normally ... * An Open Heart: Practicing Compassion in everyday life, edited by ...
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  • a parent, and to raise children with courage and compassion. Dreikurs believed that "all behavior has a purpose." He constructed what ...
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  • how he said or wrote with "wit, charm and compassion" that won his hearers and readers' hearts. [http://www.bookrags.com/biography/lincoln ...
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  • women, Orpah and Ruth (Rut, רוּת, "Compassion"). The sons die without producing offspring, leaving all three of the women as widows. ...
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  • poets would extol her beauty, gracefulness and compassion. Mumtaz Mahal was Shah Jahan's trusted companion, travelling with him all over the Mughal ...
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  • Roman governors. He ruled his subjects with compassion and friendliness." [http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=912&letter ...
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  • :How with compassion burn :Beauties, you said in return :Such common tricks transcend. :Your visions, I will oppose :My mind's paths, I will close ...
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  • what has been called "compassion fatigue" has also ... What has been called "compassion fatigue" has also had a ...
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  • the flood, and Enki, by taking compassion on mankind and warning the righteous Noah to build the ark. Also, in Genesis, God is not angered by ...
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  • Others equally devoted to divine and human compassion decry homosexuality ... * Place of Compassion, with Kenneth E. Luckman. Hertford, England: ...
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  • to extend the natural generosity and compassion of Americans to the global level. The Four Freedoms continued to be a major theme in U.S. educational ...
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  • he tells his listeners of God's compassion, his forgiveness, and his ... my heart yearns for him; I have great compassion for him," declares ...
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  • elements of autobiography with appeals for compassion toward the less fortunate, and for vegetarianism and animal rights. Nijinsky writes of the importance ...
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  • to his half-brother Enki/Ea, who showed more compassion and sometimes risked Enlil's disapproval in siding with mankind or other gods. Enki risked ...
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  • example of extending loving-kindness and compassion (Pali: karuna) to "difficult ... seeking the general good, compassion; the absence of malice ...
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  • such as honesty, responsibility, integrity and compassion." The gravity of the crisis, he warned, threatens the competence and character ...
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  • Buddha's enlightenment, his wisdom and compassion. The Bodhi tree at Jin Long Si Temple numbered among the twelve seeds brought by monks ...
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  • the Buddhist ideals of Law and Compassion. Alongside Manjusri, he is one of the three acolytes of Shakyamuni. ===Martial arts=== Sixteenth and ...
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  • include Agape love in Christianity, Mercy or compassion in Buddhism, etc. Platonic metaphysics was built upon the eternal existence of the Good ...
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  • Anahata, or the heart chakra, is related to complex emotion, compassion ... patience and equilibrium, or pleasure, Compassion, Touch ...
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  • were accused of opposing Ehrenburg and "compassion towards the enemy." Lev Kopelev, To Be Preserved Forever ("Хранить вечно ...
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  • survivor, Utnapishtim, Ishtar shows her deep compassion for mankind: :Ishtar shrieked like a woman in childbirth, :The sweet-voiced Mistress of ...
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  • emotion and related virtues such as benevolence, compassion, sensitivity, responsiveness, and sympathy. The emotions that traditional ethics have rejected ...
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  • seen as a basis for a morality of co-operation, compassion, and communalism. Ubuntu underscores the importance of agreement or consensus, and gives priority ...
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  • on situations as circumstances changed. His compassion and respect for the rights of the Arab residents of Israel is well documented through his ...
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  • in 1984. His column was cited for its "compassion and putting contemporary events in a historical context" (Stout 1996). ...
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  • expression of the deities' wrathful compassion which mercilessly destroys ... violence, and to embrace the precepts of love and compassion. ...
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  • | God_of = Protection, Compassion, Tenderness and Love | Abode = Goloka, Vaikuntha, Vrindavan, Gokula, Dwarka }} Krishna (meaning "dark ...
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  • (or Truth), Benevolence (or Compassion), and Forbearance (or Endurance)'. The process of cultivation is thought of to be one in which the ...
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  • interpretation of Islam, he stressed its compassion, respect for human dignity and tolerance and did much to situate his community within the ...
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  • Ibn 'Arabi: The Treasure of Compassion.] Retrieved January 31, 2008. In the years that followed, he traveled throughout the Western Islamic ...
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  • her bounds, the hypocrisy of preaching compassion while simultaneously engaging in a pattern of corrupt and vicious behavior, and ruling by pulling ...
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  • not always associated with men, such as compassion, a concern for social justice ... people food and clothing. Showing compassion and concern, reassuring ...
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  • :Daoxin: I ask for the Master’s compassion. Please instruct me on how to achieve release. :Sengcan: Is there someone who constrains [binds] you? ...
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  • to his character, including: maleness, emotion, compassion, intellect, judgment, mastery, and greatness. * The Shu Jing (書經), the earliest ...
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  • and Hinduism find a common bond in a compassion that seeks unity with the ... or her opens up patterns of endurance, compassion, and forgiveness because ...
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  • was far outstripping his sense of compassion for others. He wanted his son to understand the meaning of pain and want, so he shut him out emotionally ...
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  • , 160; Kristi L. Wiley, "Ahimsa and Compassion in Jainism." Studies ... * *Wiley, Kristi L. "Ahimsa and Compassion in Jainism." ...
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  • proved models of efficiency and compassion. At Ashford workhouse many paupers wept at the retirement of their master, an ex-naval officer. ...
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  • to those who are at ease should yield to compassion to the miserable" and "unmerited generosity should yield to gratitude, and both ...
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  • of her people who lived in Galilee. Through her compassion and wisdom the people in the hill country united around her, raising a small standing army. ...
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  • , where she won acclaim for her gentleness and compassion. She is best remembered as the tender-hearted woman who interceded with her husband and persuaded ...
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  • guided by the grace of God if people show compassion to others and turn the other cheek when confronted with violence. The principles he espoused were ...
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  • of Mettā (loving kindness), karuna (compassion), mudita (sympathetic joy ... *Lampert, Khen. Traditions of Compassion: From Religious Duty to Social ...
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  • his son: (a) The face of the man suggests wisdom, compassion, intelligence, and humanity as the Son of God. (b) The face of the lion speaks of kingly ...
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  • oath to celibacy. At the same time, he expressed compassion about human failings, criticized the absence of pastoral care for the Nun of Watton and her ...
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  • quot; (Abot), which is interpreted as a lack of compassion. Another rabbinic tradition is that Sodom and Gomorrah treated visitors in a sadistic fashion ...
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  • their dignity and treated them with compassion, a quality born, undoubtedly of her own difficult childhood experiences. "Dorothea Lange, ...
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  • # Kindness; benevolence; gentleness; compassion; sensitivity; moral sense. # The faculty to imitate; the mimic. # The organ of religion. ...
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  • Kildare, a woman ablaze with God's womb-compassion. (DVD video) Falls Church: Va, GodTalk Foundation. 197335963 * St. Brigid of Ireland ...
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  • ethics emphasized the Three Jewels of the Tao: compassion, moderation, and humility. Taoist thought focused on wu wei ("non-action"), spontaneity ...
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  • A siddha (Sanskrit: Meaning, "one who is accomplished") refers to perfected spiritual masters who have transcended the ahamkara (ego ...
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  • as a young man, gave him a deep sense of compassion for the sick and unfortunate. In Canada, he observed that his poorest patients often became ...
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