Science confirms Taoist wisdom about compassion and morality

When Bruce Frantzis talks about Taoist morality, he says that in Taoism morality is based on being able to really experience the world around you, and therefore being able to experience what others are going through, which leads to empathy and morality. So to be moral, you need to be compassionate. And to be compassionate you need to be present, aware, you need to be awake.
Here Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence, talks about reflective neurons, a type of neurons that enable us to exactly experience what others around us experience. They enable us to empathize, to be compassionate. But then he asks why we aren't more compassionate more of the time. And he concludes that this is because people are just not present, aware or awake most of the time. We are too self-centered, too enclosed within our own minds, to notice others, the world.

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