Krista Tippett: Reconnecting with compassion
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- Опубликовано: 14 фев 2011
- www.ted.com The term "compassion" -- typically reserved for the saintly or the sappy -- has fallen out of touch with reality. At a special TEDPrize@UN, journalist Krista Tippett deconstructs the meaning of compassion through several moving stories, and proposes a new, more attainable definition for the word.
This is one of the best TED talk I have watch.
Wow I LOVE this talk ! It's so necessary & timely, can't imagine why all the dislikes for this video !
Compassion is not the ultimate virtue.
What we hunger for is UNDERSTANDING.
Understanding encompasses all other virtues.
Well said. I've also learned we don't need to know a person's story in order to feel compassion for them. It's enough to know they are living this life. We all struggle at times, and knowing that, we can feel compassion for one another.
I'm not sure what everyone's problem is. If the premise is to replace tolerance with compassion, I think it's probably something many of us could take into consideration.
I mean, just read the comments...
This is a very inspiring and uplifting Ted Talk. One of her statements that really resonated with me was how compassion is first about changing ourselves before changing the world.
I think I have to agree with many of the complaints that have been going on on the latest TED videos. The science talks are scarce and far between, they would be very welcome by us, the viewers. Just as an example of what might interest us, I'd like to have an update on the "Synthetic Life" that was created last year by the team led by Dr. Craig Venter.
@De4sher I DID become what I hated. Someone I cared about had the strength to show me, what I had become. I then began to learn from my mistakes. I AM a better man because of that. I'm stronger & and happier, and more useful to myself and others.
Learning from your mistakes isn't wishy washy. It takes real strength. It's easy to fling around your emotions and put up a front. Anyone can do that. It isn't strong. It's cowardly.
It is much more difficult to live with vulnerability.
Beautiful!!!
This was a beautiful speech..
Anybody noticed the strange turn in the enso symbol behind her? I thought it was clever.
I liked her talk quite a lot. "Compassion as a spiritual technology" is just the kind of statement that make me happy. We do have a lot of unexplored mind-states that can greatly improve and expand our human experience as a collective. Hurray for the evolution of a shared well-being! :)
Admittedly a very different pace/tone than most TED talks, but powerful and important messages for all humans. I've come to enjoy her show On Being, not every episode hits a home run for me, but many are very thought provoking.
For those that aren't liking this: I'd challenge you to examine yourself and see if you could benefit from any of what she's talking about. I find that initial repulsion to this kind of thing is an unconscious reaction from an unwillingness to admit our own culpability.
I'm deeply inspired by this material. A book about these topics was transformative for my life. "A Life Unplugged: Reclaiming Reality in a Digital Age" by Theodore Blaze
@De4sher Don't become what you hate. Be better than it. Deserve victory over it.
I agree words are important and I agree we often misunderstand one another when we assign different meanings to words. But compassion is very simple. We know it when we receive it from others, and we know it when we feel it towards others. We don't need a lecture to understand it. And that photo of Einstein...? Swami Vivekananda also JFK both smoked cigars. So? Perhaps Ms Tippet was revealing her bias against men with cigars.
religion, psuedo-intellectualism and bad hairstyles should have been left in the 90's
please bring back the TED that inspired
@DanteD83 You just prove that it is a talk which needs to be given.
@MomoTheBellyDancer She referred to Mother Teresa in the context of ones deemed to have done such great work, but they are flawed humans like the rest of us. I felt she was recommending that we be compassionate towards those human frailties.
@De4sher Just to be clear, that was supposed to be an honest answer to your question. I would react as I actually reacted - by reflecting and trying something new.
“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.” ALBERT EINSTEIN
And also to all these people complaining about TEDWomen... this was NOT a TEDWomen talk. You're just displaying your mysogeny.
meaning of compassion... is to touch the soul of others
This falls in the entertainment part of the TED trinity - the subcategory is relaxing voice for sleep/relaxation.
@SLNoel you tell him. I am not as good as you are with words ,and thinking , but to me, you won.
this talk should be on TEDLACKOFCOCK.
Einstein is someone I really respect...
this talk is touchy-feely
Interesting start about a linguastic resurrection, and using as a iconic example the Dutch translation of the word Compassion. Pity translates to the Dutch word "medelijden" which literally means, "to suffer also", "to suffer together", and the dutch synonym according to the Dutch "Dikke van Dale" is "compassie", meaning compassion. The English word "pity" doesn't seem to have a Dutch translation, like the German "Uberhaupt" per example. So indeed, miss Tippett, words are important.
Cheers to this talk. It seems to me, she is saying, "Lets try to peel away some of our useless illusions." I think she is right on track.
I particularly like the way she criticizes the "Kumbaya" bullshit compassion that permeates our popular culture, while calling for a more realist compassion that can actually improve relations between people.
@DanteD83 the women, with their amazingly boring fields of interests ate all the epic out of ted... also the disturbed artists and motivational speakers helped scare interesting people off
My patron saint of hope
@SLNoel Wouldn't they? I think you're wrong. "TED obviously believed this person had something wortwhile to say, so they signed her on." - No, not necessarily, which is exactly my point. They have no vetting process. There's nobody making sure the brand stays intact.
@botheredguy1985
NO WAY?!?!? AWESOME!!!!
@56jmoney yessir i stand corrected...
Great Idea. 3 cheers. :)
@t3tsuyaguy1 i didn't get that.
but i wonder, how would you react to a line like "don't become what you hate. learn from your mistakes and become a better man because of them!"
how would you take that? wouldn't you yourself say that was the gayest thing you heard today? i'm genuinely curious
@maddcatone you mean: technology, entertainment and DESIGN, right?
Like the centurion in Luke 7, people in the storms of life don't waste time or mince words. They go directly to the people whose faith they've tagged as real. We need to be those people. Do our lives mark us as a go-to person in touch with God? ~Kilgore~
@tgseason12 This isn't TEDwomen. It is TEDPrize@UN. I hated TEDwomen. It was a disaster for gender equality. It was a shame and a sham.
However, if you've let yourself develop a knee-jerk hate-on for every women you see on TED, then you have let stupid people infect you.
This talk contained no sexism. This talk contained an idea for how to approach cultural diversity. It belongs at TED, because it is an idea for action to take.
Feel free to agree with it or not, but it is a valid talk.
@AnneOnAMoose Uh....compassion?
I suggest that you may have ensured 'x' number of people, who might of listened to the message of this talk, won't - just to spite you.
Good application of the thing you're championing!
I'd just say niceness. If you took away the posts/comments on the internet that are blatantly not nice ... there might actually be some really good discussions and information out there. As it is 99% of comments start or end with calling someone a insulting name, and most of the rest are full or sarcasm, or wild exaggerations ... I hope I am not exaggerating here ... but I almost cannot come here and listen to a video the comments are so vile.
I agree. A suggestion... Watch the videos. Skip the comments.
Beautiful! Thanks for the uplifting and unifying video :))
@De4sher Interesting.
I'm so sorry you're tired!
I dont get it, wheres the robots?
I find compassion in not my not believing the bible.-a divider in the journey to becoming one compassionate human race
@SLNoel "The only way a system can fail is if one of the components fail." - no, you're wrong again, that's a very reductionist view of systems. Systems fail all the time without components failing because systems operate within an environment that the system itself doesn't necessarily have control over - which is a little bit like this case with TED. TED opened their brand and allowed non-TED people to create TED conferences. Again, a simple vetting process could fix this.
I don't find the video personally useful, and I think that she could consolidate her points to be a bit more clear, but the amount of misogyny and stupid reactionary comments in this video just make me sad for TED. Yeah it isn't science, but that isn't all TED is. Its about good ideas. And compassion is an idea (perhaps more accurately a virtue) worth spreading.
I find compassion in my not believing the bible.-because its a divider in the journey to becoming one compassionate human race
I like her points overall but her over-flowering of words is just annoying...
@seemoretube YAY! a sensible comment about feminism at last!
@De4sher Sure guy. I'm insecure. I'm susceptible to poetry and cliches. I don't respond to rational dialogue.
I hope that makes you feel better. Sorry about your shame.
to the negativists here, you shy away from real work with the argument that the work is sense less. Compassion is far more demanding than pulling a trigger on infidels, child molesters, insurgents, islamists, radicals, criminals, communists, fascists or whatever labeled person you encounter.
step up to the plate and understand that real superiority is not about knowledge but about being human among humans. real value is in the relations you have, not the facts you know. dig this!
Okay I'm gonna need help here. What is this video about? And don't say compassion.
@t3tsuyaguy1 then you have some insecurity issues. i don't really mind receiving random advicefrom random people for my trolling attempts... but clichees like "don't become your enemy" really turn me off.
what if i wanna become my enemy? what if that's fun? what if i'm not so sure i'm not the bad one, while my enemy is the good one?
i asked if you were gay, stupid, or female, because i thought only those kind of people are more susceptible to poetry than to actual rational dialogue. was wrong
I wonder why it is that whenever someone talks about compassion they receive so much hate.
I vote that there be a seperate channel for TED Women so I don't keep having these vids on my subscriptions list, but can still stay subscribed to TED, because seriously, i'm considering unsubbing at this point, these are a waste and not what I signed on for. I didn't ask to have these TED Women vids...I want science and enlightening ideas, and these talks only speak to one kind of person about one kind of thing...it's inaccessable and that's not the TED I subbed to and love.
Thumbs down for using the argument from Einstein (+ name dropping of other famous now very dead people) and the "quote" @ 11:58-12:13 *barf*
I tried to listen to this to make a comment about is about why I don't like it, but I just can't make myself listen to a blabbering woman telling me what compassion means and then randomly quoting einstein
When the hell did TED go from being a secular exploration of Technology Entertainment and Design into a religious advertisement?
I agree with Kevin Kling. Recognition is a better word than compassion. Compassion is santimonious. Recognition is noticing, describing, elevating. It's two equals. If you are compassion, you aren't helping others, you are helping yourself.
I like the word 'validation'.
I just find stupid when people try to rationalize feelings and trying to put them in a intellectual place in their heads were they can feel "fluffy feelings" about the original feelings... My answer to this is: you are primate... the importance of your feelings in the great realm of "ideas worth sharing" is residual...
Krista, you are the worse part of my drive home on Friday. You ruin the otherwise interesting NPR 3 o'clock hour.
What is it about this woman that is so unlikeable and annoying ... condescension? the effort it takes her to push the words out? And what did she say exactly ....
Agree about Mother Theresa; people need to look at what she actually did---upholding poverty; good point.
@GrudgyDiablo Well gee Mr. Misogynist, you sure told me!
No, I'm not man-hating. One does not need to hate men in order to spot a man who is stuck in the 18th century. That might be a struggle for you to understand, so be sure to read it a few times.
@bentothetenthpower While I won't disagree on the point of timing, I'll disagree that any such video exists. Perhaps you could point to one specifically blaming men for all the world's problems? Or maybe You're just feeling a little sensitive about women discussing matters that pertain to them regarding the design of our economy?
i love the number of people who can't seem to say something negative about the speech without mentioning that it's a woman giving it. shameful indeed.
What light are you referring to.
How do you find this light.
Jesus said that he was the light of the world.
Is this claim true?
Jh 8:12. What did he mean by this.
Is Jesus not who we should seek.
Seek him to be like him.
Follow Jesus and he will help you be be compassionate.
Yes imperfectly but he is our perfect example.
Jesus very clearly says to practice compassion.
Feed the hungry.
Give to the poor.
Visit people in prison.
Love/ honour your mother and father.
Look after widows and orphans.
.
Cry my a river, now can we have some inspiring science please
It wasn't god-awful but if you need reminding that women can do more than cooking or feminism go see Breazeal's talk about her emotion robots!
There is no such thing as spirituality. This talk has a few good ideas but because she maintains, tries to reconcile with and comes from a place of faith: it is offensive and NOT in the spirit of TED.
@Bugersaler LMAO
@MomoTheBellyDancer- Wow, what a disgusting comment. Mother Teresa (or the chrone as you call her) sacrificed her life to do everything in her power to help those people suffering in poverty - we're talking about a very poor women (in wealth), doing whatever she could to support others. She "upheld" their poverty? No, she relieved the burdens of their poverty, and showed them the truth that the least on Earth, will be first in Heaven - that doesn't mean she kept these people at the bottom.
She wasn't the US Government who creates a welfare system designed to keep people in poverty, and not let them rise above it - so please keep your filth directed to those deserve it. I know it's cool thing nowadays to pick on the weak like old women and Christians though. Taking on the International Banks and Corrupt Government is too hard, so let's go after the peace lovers - right.
@kaupaxup Around the same time it became a platform for misandrist, femi-nazi rants about men being to blame for the worlds problems.
@ninestraycats Nobody would be doing that if she had not shamefully implied that men were to blame for the problems with the world economy.
If she had managed to speak about the problems at hand without making the unimaginative and childish conclusion that men were automatically less compassionate than women, and as such, to blame for the worlds problems, than no-one would feel the need to bring gender-politics into it.
It is Ms. Tippet who should be ashamed.
@SuperiorApostate TEDIKES sounds better
@DanteD83 Science is not the only valid topic for TED. This is an idea. It is an idea for something that can be attempted. You are quite free to doubt it's effectiveness; but you're on shaky ground, if you wish to doubt it's validity as a TED talk.
What made TED great was the free exchange of ideas. What has been wrong with TED is the presence of gender bigots and motivational speakers. This lady isn't either.
@kaupaxup Hanna Rosin: New data on the rise of women. Pure Misandry, and the video that made me feel more nausea than any other for years. The way she is raising her daughter to hold boys, and men, in contempt, and the way she is "raising" (ruining) her son, teaching him that he is not to defend himself against personal attacks.
As for the economy thing, until Austrian economics, or another similar system is put in place, no amount of gender politics will help anything. Not that they ever do.
In the last year or so Ted has been like a bad sequel to a good movie. They should stop.
Folks who don't know about compassion don't watch TED so talk to a horse please
@Bugersaler I can understand not being interested in this pedantic wordmancery, but you want to promote more annoying instruments in TEDtalks instead? Screw that, I'm going to go back to the "Using nature's genius" guy for my daily dose of hope derived from human innovation toward the seamless integration of nature in to human life and technology.
horrible. I'm trying my best not to puke. well done, TEDxDEGENERATE
@SLNoel That's an incredibly stupid argument. Obviously people are responsible for the words they say, but when an organization with a specific mandate brings in someone to present that does not at all fit that mandate, you actually think the speaker is responsible? So to draw the obvious equivalent example, if a university brings in a speaker who intends to spread hate-speech - and the Uni knows it ahead of time - that university bears no responsibility?
what the fuck is this?
The comments on this video are shameful.
An inspiring, and intellectual talk about compassion
....would have been good.
This is crap. Utter crap.
She does not understand what she's talking about, and doesn't present her nonsense properly, either.
I have no compassion for this... where have the good topics gone? Where is the science and wonder the TED talks once showed?
what a load of crap this was
ted talks was once full of hope wonder and inovation but in the last few weeks it has been full of people talking about nothing
not really talking about anything. this is why tedwoman is flawed
Feminism ruined TED. Period.
Too much religious superstition.
Waste of Time.
Go back to the kitchenand show me some cullinary compassion!