Resonance - In Touch with the Root of Compassion

About this episode

The episode discusses the intrinsic role of compassion and cooperation in human survival, challenging the notion that ethics is a luxury.

This talk is from the Practice Course "Developing Embodiment," originally offered live at the Boulder Zen Center and now available as a self-paced course. It challenges a common assumption, that ethics is a luxury, something we attend to once our basic needs are met. Drawing on evolutionary perspectives, the talk suggests the opposite: cooperation and care are existential facts for human beings, built into our very survival as a species. Compassion, then, is not a virtue we impose on ourselve...

People in this episode

Host: Zenki Christian Dillo

Topics covered

• compassion
• ethics
• cooperation
• survival
• human behavior

Keywords

• compassion
• ethics
• cooperation
• human survival
• Buddhism

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Boulder Zen Center

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