"Idiot compassion is the highly conceptualized idea that you want to do good….But that doesn't mean to say that you have to be gentle all the time.

Your gentleness should have heart, strength. In order that your compassion doesn't become idiot compassion, you have to use your intelligence. Otherwise, there could be self-indulgence of thinking that you are creating a compassionate situation when in fact you are feeding the other person's aggression. If you go to a shop and the shopkeeper cheats you and you go back and let him cheat you again, that doesn't seem to be a very healthy thing to do for others." ~ Chogyam Trungpa

Podcast produced by: Vanessa Boehm; Music by Adam Agee, recorded live at Walk the Talk Show events.